NEW ZEALAND AS A FIELD FOR SETTLEMENT. (Lyttelton Times.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1805, 31 January 1884, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND AS A FIELD FOR SETTLEMENT. (Lyttelton Times.)

The opinions of representative men, especially if they aie travelled men, nre always worth having. In another column will be found some interesting extracts from a, private letter, written by Mr Ernst Eugster, of Speiclier, Swit/ciland, to a gentleman living in Christchurch. Mr Eugster is one of the chief promoters, if not the actual founder, of the Sw iss Special Settlement, close to Pukekohe, on the Auckland-Mercer line of railway. Mr Eugster may be taked as a lepresentative example of the Continental manufacturer with progressive and emigrating tendencies. But his \iews and conclusions, interesting as they are for us on that account alone, gain additional value for another reason. As an exhibitor at the "Great Centennial" at Philadelphia in IS7G, as Swiss Commissioner it Sydney and Melbourne later on, and as proprietor of the Swiss Court in Joubert and Twopcny's Exhibition last year, he has enjoyed the greatest facilities for compaimg different countries vsuitable for immigration. With the excellent 01 portunities he has had he must now be able to gauge to «a nicety the various inducements they offer to persons desirous of quitting what lie aptly terms " the old, overctowded, overdone " portions of the Old World. It is therefore very cheeiing, and at the same time gratifying, to liud that after wide travel, observation and comparison, his final decision should have led hnn to pilch upon New Zealand as the future home of himself and those whom he has induced to throw in their lot with him. His a\owed preference for tins country coming jut.t at this tune is almost a coincidence. We h.i\ c lately been favoured with the rosy theoiy of the Maiqim of Lome regarding the power of a federated Colonial Empire. Mr Whitaker, home from the Conference, almost as aged and almost as astute as Ulysses afterall his trials and tiavels, has .sung, "Theie's 110 place like home," to an enthusiastic audience of Auckl.uiders. Noitherners who heaul his address, and people all over the Colony who, thanks to the Ptcss Association, read a digest ot it, will begin to think Austialia quite an unimpoitant poitiou of the woild compaied to New Zealand. And as if to coniiim us in the opinion that we aie the bright paiticulor star and jewel m Lord Louie's Impci uil and Colonial ciown, we now fall in with the sayings of quite an independent foicignei, whu had the New Woild to choose fiom, nnd elected to settle in this colony. The position is, so far, tiuly flattenng. But Mr Eugster's lcmaiksshow another thing To those ■\\ho know that foreigners have, often rejected New Zealand as a spot to which they might emigiate, on account of its leinoteness and the length of time required to reach it by long sea, 01 by the clumsy method of coming via Australia, and undcigoing the disasieeable process of transhipment, it establishes beyond a doubt the value of the direct steam service. Moie power to the company »'lio inaugurated it ! It also tells ot the gu-at i»noiancc prevailing even amongst a highly educated and intelligent nation like the Swiss as to the ic&ouices, climate, piogiess and advantages ofFeied by thc»c islands as afield for emigration. From a good stoiy we should always draw a moral. The moral to this is — " Immove your communications and ad vci Use." Then you will attract lndnstnous, intelligent foieigners to your shoies, instead of seeing them swarm off to Canada, the United States, •Australia and clieuhcie.

"You haven't got -such a. thing as a pair of ouhl trousei-, li.ivc you ?" " No, my man," said the 11101 chant ; " I don't keep my vaidrobu in my countinghouse." " Wlieic do you live " u- joined Pat, " and 1 11 call in the morning for the ould pair you've got on." Hinii Pkict, of C^ttlk. — It is stated that the Duke of Buccleuch was offered £900 for his twelve year old Galloway bull Black Prince of Drumlanrig, but that he declined to pait with the animal even at that high figure. Messks Chai'man .md Hall are, it is said, about to publish a new book on Egypt by Mr Broad ley. It is to be entitled, " How ■we Defended Aiabi and imFiiends ; A Stoiy of .Egypt and the Egyptians, ' and Mill be lllnstiatcd by Mr Fiedeiiek Vilbeis, the special correspondent of the daphic in Egypt. Mr Roblut Louis Stevi'Nsox has wnttcn for the Centuiv a seiie& of sketches, entitled " The Silveiado Squatteis," a desciiption of a cunous camping experience of tlie author in a debited California mining camp. The Centmy has an angod for several papers including an essa> on the "Life of Dante,' by Christina 0. llot-sctti, with papers on his " Exile," and on the " Poi traits of Dante "' b}' Saiah Freeman Clarke, A most sumptuous edition of Shakespeare has just been published by Mr Wm. Paterson, of KdinbuiKli, Mhich will at once find its way to the affections of the book lover. The text is that of the fiist folio of 1023, which is the ncaiott approach to m lint came from the hand of the author. The only alteiations permitted ha\e been punting s foi /', v for u in such woids as ham, and to abolish the conti actions of tlmu and you. The etchings by M. Mon/ies arc fiom the oiiginal designs of M. Pille. Mlssr*, Tkchnkr a\d Co. announce as being neailv icady the fiist volume of Schopenhauseis's cic-at woik, "The Woild as Will and Idea," winch now appears in English for the first time, containing the whole of his phihophical sjstein. The present translation is by Mr Haldane and Mr Kemp, and is fiom the fourth edition, edited by Frauenstadt, in 1573. A new volume of poems by Mr Edwin Arnold, "Indian Idylls," will also be ready shortly. The figures of railroad woik in the United States are colossal. The Union Pacific is the largest, and has 42(59 miles. The Pennsylvania operates 1173 miles, New York Cenlial 993 miles, Wabash 334S miloa, the Missouri Pacific controls 4.335 miles, the Louisville and Nablnille railway has 202S miles, Lake Shore 1277 miles, Illinois Cential 1892 milet, Chicago and North-woslein 327S miles, Chicago and Rock I&lind 1381 miles, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 4213 miles, Chicago, Buihngton and Quincy 3130 miles, Cential Pacific 299.3 miles, Baltimore and Ohio 1503 miles, Noi thorn Pacific 2091 miles, Eiie 1020 miles. The Ipswich Journal says :—": — " The Ipsw ich police force is now one of the finest bodies of men to be found in any constabulaiy in England. Many of us can remember when this was not the case — when, indeed, the Ipswich police were somewhat looked down upon. But things are changed greatly for the better in tins direction. Thanks to the administrative ability of Lieut. -Colonel Russell (late 57th llegt.), we now possess a borough police foice, the members of which have become proverbial for their activity, vigilance and discretion." Thk Shorthorn Hkrd-Book. — The twenty-ninth volume of the new seiies of Coates Shorthoin Herd-Book has just been, published by the Shoi thorn Society, and is a bulky volume, evidently compiled with great care on the part of the editing committee. It contains the pedigrees of bulls ranging from 47311 to 48978. The larger half of the volume, however, is devoted to the entry of cows with their produce. Each breeder's entries of females are recorded together under his own name, and consequently are not numbered like the bulls. Her Majesty the Queen heads the list, followed by the Prince of Wales. Among the largest entries are those of Sir Henry AllBopp ; Mr B. St. John Ackers ; Mr Hugh Aylmer ; Col. Balfour, Kirkwall ; Earl of Bective ; the Messrs Booth ; Mr R. Botterill; the Duke of Devonshire ; Mr Geo. Fox; the Duke of Northumberland; Lord Penrhyn ; Sir G. R. Philips, fee. The entries for the next volume close on Friday, Jit Fibrmiry, 188*,