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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 44, 14 January 1902, Page 4

There is one thing, writes an American paper, in which the Londoners beat ns hopelessly and ignominiously—the policemen. When you look at those rubious and rotund Irish gentlemen, whose sole occupation in life seems to be to lounge across Broadway, holding a lady by the arm as if they were going for a walk together, and compare them to the tall, clean, intelligent, and well mannered bobbies in London, the mind as the novelists say, sinks back baffled from the task. If you ask a London policeman and questlie will not only answer you intelligently, but like a gentleman. When a native of the crack tourist country of the world, Switzerland, pronounces the New Zealand wonderland infinitely ahead of anything that its Continental rival can show, we who live in the midst of if ought to begin to see the value of spreading its fame abroad. A Swiss gentleman of means who recently travelled over the colony has expressed to the Tourist Department his deep appreciation of the gradeur and sublimity- of its natural beauties. “ There is nothing in Switzerland which can beat it,” he said, “ but there are many marvels your colony possesses which Switzerland is denied, notably in the thermal districts.” The secret of the success of' Switzerland, he added, was the easiness of access to all popular resorts, the comfortable travelling and hotel accomodation, and other added attractions. “ The average traveller who goes to Switzerland is quite satisfied to do his mountaineering by train, and do the rest of his sight-seeing under the luxurious circumstances which the Continental system offers.” When the tourist resorts in this colony are made more accessible, and there is less of the “ rough and tumble” character about some of the most noteworthy trips offered, it is predicted that we will be able, in expressive American phraseology, to “ lick creation ” as a show - place, and become the tourist magnet of the world. News has been received of the death of Mrs Had field, wife of the former Primate of New Zealand, which occurred at their residence, “Edale,” Marton, at one o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, after a loiig and painful illness. The deceased, who was a daughter of the Yen Archdeacon Williams, -of the Bay of Islands, had attained the age of seventy seven years. She-was a sister of the Bishop of Waiapu, Her husband and a numerous family survive her. A wide circle of people will hear of her- death with deep regret.