TRIBUTES TO NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7826, 19 August 1904, Page 7

TRIBUTES TO NEW ZEALAND.

Lecturiug in England lately, the Rev. C. E. Beecroft, a well known New Zealand clergyman, said that when li 3 reached New Zealand soma sixteen years ago, it surprised him very much to discover how far the eye could reach, and how gorgeous was the panorama that was set before it. The stars there seemed to shino with greater distinctness. We had moonshine in England, ■but they had moonlight in tho Britain of the South. Tho chief products of tho country were pastoral, agricultural, and mineral; and while it was so fruitful in useful things, it was free from many deleterious ones. There was no lion there, no ravenous beast, no adder; there was no beast of yuey of any kiud. When he went to Now Zealand he found the people happy and healthylooking. Everyone seemed to have not ____--!lv bread enough and to spare, but tho of gratifying every reasonable necessity, 'it seemed to him an awful thing that human beings should dio of starvation. A thing like that was never heard of in New Zealand. Dining the whole of the sixteen yea-s he had never seen a single hand hold out from a beggar, and he had never been met at (as ho was met at Liverpool tho other day) by young boys and wornout old meir appealing to In allowed to carry a bag to earn a copper. God had been good to New Zealand. If a man had a pair of bands and was willing to use them ho could get plenty of profitable employment there. "They can have this, and any other countr\\ but give me New Zealand" (says Mr ,7. M. ."Johnston, writing to a Paimerston friend), and continues : "'We are far and away ahead of either England. Scotland or Ireland in very many ways, and you need never complain of the" telegraph or telephone service of New Zealand, after here and Eugland. I was delighted to get a cable from Mr Luxford. saying the Winter Show was a great success. We have absolutely nothing whatever to learn in managing a Show from the Boyal of Eugland. We rf£au more than hold our own with them Jilt every point, Ol course, I don't numbers of exhibits. 1 have three large plans of tbe Royal ground on a large scale, which I am sending out to Mr j" C. Lane. If we have anything to learn at all, it is from the Royal Dublin Society or the Royal Ulster Society, bo:h of which are far and a.vay ahead of the lioyal in ground and appointments. Tbe Dublin grounds are a perfect treat to see, and beautifully kept. Will describe them later. The railways in New Zealand compare more than favourably with the very best in this country (Ireland), and the most of those in England. It really staggers one how far b.hind in many inspects the O'.d Country is, compared with New Zealaud.