Mr Herbert-Jones' Lecture.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 49, 23 August 1894, Page 3

Mr Herbert-Jones' Lecture.

There was a very good audience at the Assembly Booms last night, the Mayor, Mr W. Cartbew, presiding, when Mr Herbert-Jones, F.R.G.S., delivered one of hia famous lectures on " Our Country ; the World's Wonderland." AH present listened with thorough enjoyment to the graphic and instructive descriptions of our beautiful country and its inhabitants, many of the views of the former being exhibited on a screen by means of a powerful lantern, and there was not a person amongst the audience who was aware that we had in our land scenes of such rare beauty as was shown them by the lecturer. Mr Herbert- Joues goes into ecstasy over the climate and beauties of New Zealand, and describes it as the Italy and Britain of the South, having the blue skies of the former and the homes of the latter, while he maintains that there is not a country under the sun so privileged as this. The lecturer .has an eye for the beautiful, and he delights to dwell on the magnificence of many of the views which he has obtained from every part of the colony. He is a fluent spoaker, possessing splendid descriptive powers, and the whole lecture from beginning to end was of a most interesting, instructive and enjoyable nature. On Monday evening next Mr HerbertJones will give another lecture in Feilding when he will deal more with the beauties and people of the North Island, his remarks last night being confined chiefly to the South Island. All who can possibly do so should endeavour to be present on Monday night, as it will be an opportunity which rarely offers of seeing some of our magnificent tsconery, aud listening to so eloquent a lecturer as Mr H erber t- Jones