A VOICE FROM NELSON.

Evening Star, Issue 4272, 4 November 1876, Page 1

A VOICE FROM NELSON.

; iT&hiiJtoUdfV; 9^lqm&oTf.;o.^{ff * Sib,— Pethftj»*.{eWir<wt)Fdß ’frSi&OMf;q&lT correspondent ahbhtx»Mßof tfeoda^kno^'L; dfle' r ’#ifl ! ’bri»thp ! 6f* hd p*«& vmSm^ «"■■ breezes, ‘the sunny ' B P ril »g v#ohrX *^wiSj®v° a characteristic of ItfefrCi&sland. here is simply, perfect,’ «g> t winter tq make -ngripner H*or* lightfnl, while Bummer-r-tbat ,is thepresentr). ,>. season—has i tsidreht tempo rSda by oa ir*Sh tk, r i «ea breeze.) The km jad* afejejj full bloom; the delioftms thorp- end gpieetbrimiii fiiliiAkhe;* «ui» gardens hare been aglbwwith flowers & tfe» IA winter, if Winter it'Carifairly bp Cal3«id r f the Orchards ; or# ; begfhhibg well as blossom v Peaches, in my - as,large as Bazel nuts. ’ ■*'; The sceiierpT& B^ghMcfatfc. l ‘ltiSti&ka itself is situated formerly the emboi^t^e'oT^aefe^ river, emptyingltselfintb S^esaT^rlto^^^ 5 ■rperely a thin aUavial layer cnTylng sbingla «nd boulders', Twit about four er from the sea the hills and mountain risenp. their sides yeli covered with bush, hbd thei# " tops with snow;, which lasts most of the ~ rising sun sheds his gold en glory on them— •s•■’• but this will never do—-I am getting Quite ■- '■ pdetioaL pits dants possess alhthe;4ando shoot*-rr-3t Is as pdrely Englishrar a place can-be.-Those-of — tyour readers whocwTanemberyanrEnglish village in 1843 will know what Motuekais now, ; pfrs : telegraph office; »hd old church nnd 4 »qUire ; rfdr th8 r latfcp Bae Jjo represdnt itive is represented by a Wdo^E4flfiadltisttJ|rfW ) 't , ’i *' OPcotfrsKigsdlpb 0 ! knoT^everyftbd^^e,^4efb^^^^tnowa everybody else’s business, not, ht » Me* capi?her.e, i ih?; ; peopJe used teieekuneeLhthe frankest manner, “What- is the matter r (Swiffd'lo^ They-'floVt place is wonderfully heathy, it would b¥-Vo mortality, .for ihp |gflbrten yearn nag nof^ y equalled thousand annually, and of these many are deaths frog^gdrqwnfeg ?7 or')‘ other casualties - 4—have been-here—three ~ months, and ysrikele ing a papulation of nearly 3,0b0, only one 'infant has; died, abd M&ttfik&xtaiW A. improper feeding. (Consumption is unknown among thenative'barhpopmstfeh:. ate all robust, andbno mipsi* * NelsOn pity, It seeiasks if’ting, not.calraiate^,t<i( % 'hardy race, although tine amqgpt v je - tality isr sojsqjalhViS3ieai ; hears of nhantity b&iruit produced a d.Btrict, that Dunedin should have to Irait iRMk iib Sydney. jEverjrthing grows here—oranges, lemons, grapes,', melbns,‘' all the Engluh fruits, capsicums, tobacco, hops-in lf^geend«^ increasing quantity—the country faristloe . with hop-poles— while dowers aroL'iu> blo6m all the year round. The aloe flowers out of doors, and the various kinds of cactus flourishiuxhrfsaily < in thebpeh' sir. v* The district, is not a progressive one. All the land has been taken np pn T thOyfiat, 4md> f -r j cultivated'long ’’ not Hkelytoinprpaseiiiioch flnleriiletiffltt6§T new crops up. The climate does not encourage enterprise; the people are happy and . ,>. contented, but: intdlectinwly very ijSqn hind Otago., i Of this ydh tell you thafr«toongs\ hj tiereisaot^rf reading-roottf, An att«kbt up a public meetihg p ,|ihe pther puiy, in ordfen >1 to establish a w <sod. h‘. .v attended it. In material comfort they lurd far 5 ' beyond Otago - the homes are better,- larger, ' and mpre and %&v£ .. flower grurdebs nround them. ’ There \ r • of thoae wretcheddiovels sd 1 stuck in the thiddle \- scrap of flower gardeh.- 'fu ; -<' place lookP bare and ohilW,- jn~ > ;■! few blae-gdma or wattles - I . very mulch struck hpre and in .< t - s3 leafless trees. ! ■ j ; - - Themildnessof the oliihate has such it -■ soothing effpcjt .thAt even Scotohmen ■ t y suave, modest, and polite, mentative,—and-will"alloW an assertion with which thW ridt lSoS? % without contradiqting They stick to the, .. . . ■ Motueka,' Qoteher f15.. (fordwsrm«(^