ROUND THE WORLD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 43, 28 October 1893, Page 337

ROUND THE WORLD.

NOTES OF A VISIT TO ENGLAND. BY F. L W. Manchester, September 2. SINCE po-ting my .last letter we have visited a few more of the public institutions in and around this great Cottonopolis—Manchester—and one or two remarks thereupon may not prove uninteresting to some of my readers. The Chetham College may take rank as the most interesting to be dealt with on this occasion. A prosperous Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham. left by his will, of date 16th December, 1651, an endowment for

and this digression will not please my readers. There are many fine illuminated MSS in the library, one valued at £l,OOO, and some beautiful missals and rare engravings. There are sime curious and antique decorations and furniture, and altogether the college is a sight well worth seeing. Whilst mentioning old furnishings, I may mention that I have seen—what I certainly never expected—two specimens in situ, of old English stocks, where small malefactors have often done penance. Those in Stamford Park, between Ashton under-Lyne and Staley Bridge, are in complete preservation, and would serve their purpose, if required, for many a long year to come. In this Park we were surprised to stumble across a monument erected by his many admirers to‘our local Linna-us, Jethro Tinker, who died in 1871. The deceased, it appears, well-known to my father, was president of a local botanical society, and his knowledge of botany and entomology was encyclopu-dic. Every village almost, it seems, in Lancashire and Cheshire has its botanical society, and many of the working people thus be come acquainted with the names and medicinal properties

formed nothing was yet known, the paragraphs were all imaginary. A very favourite health resort for Manchester people during holiday time is the thermal spring district in Derbyshire, known as Buxton, owned by the Duke of Devonshire. It is about twenty miles away from Manchester, and over a thousand feet above the level of the sea. The geological formation is limestone, and the curative properties of the chalybeate waters for rheumatism, etc., were known to the Romans. Mary tjueen of Scots, whilst a prisoner in charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury at Chatsworth, paid several visits here to take the waters, and before leaving wrote on a pane of glass : — ‘ Buxton, who doth with waters warm excel. By me, perchance, never more seen, farewell!’ There are some very tine gardens, and after a visit no one need wonder why it is so much frequented. The Devonshire Hospital, or • Bath Charity,' provides beds for three hundred patients, and there are some very fine hotels, clubs, CONTtNVKO ON I’AOE 340.