A BOOK ABOUT NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1096, 3 January 1878, Page 2

A BOOK ABOUT NEW ZEALAND.

A well-known Christchurch citizen has recently issued, through Messrs Chapman and Hall, a volume of Experiences in New Zealand, extending over a period of thirtyfour years. The work, we believe, has not yet reached the colony, but we hope at an early date to have the pleasure of reviewing it in these columns. The “Home News'’ refers to it in the following terms : “ An old colonist of thirty-four years’standing has published a volume of experiences in New Zealand, which will doubtless be read with pleasure in the colony itself. He describes with much modesty, but very graphically, how he fought his way up from the bottom of the social scale to the top; how his muscles gradually hardened till he could take his share with the best in manual labour which at first seemed beyond his strength; how he wooed and lost, then wooed again and won; how by steady perseverance and industry he gained for himself at length a good position and substantial wealth. The soundness of the advice he gives to new colonists will be readily admitted by all who know the colony. It is of paramount importance (he says) to gain experience before embarking upon any line of life; only disappointment and pecuniary loss must overtake the man who attempts to farm before he has been a couple of years or so in the country. The writer recommends the new arrival to get away from the towns into the interior as fast as he can, accepting gladly any employment which will give him a livelihood till he has had time to look about him and learn the ways of the place. Later on, with the experience gained, he can turn to profitable account any little capital he may have by him, and eventually, like this old colonist, prosper and do well.”