AN AUCKLANDER'S LETTER HOME.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 4

AN AUCKLANDER'S LETTER HOME.

Tin. Lvondal >k Alorcui'y and Times " ot loth Novembei last prints a lcttei bent by Mr Thomas Walker, Auckland, to his in other ay Ell 01 water, in the English Lake difttuci. As u model oi how Auckland colonists oujxht to speak of the p.aco in which their lot has been oast, wo think the following passu^e^, v.oith quoting .—" With legaid to your questions, lam .-peaking ot Auckland L'lovineo, in which we me. 1 may say the lormation of Now Zealand enables you to ha\c ani .sort oi winler you wish. In the South they have winters equal to >ouis for storms and snow, which we in. the Koith ne\ei bee. Our part ol New Zealand enable-* us to glow grape-, oiangc-, lemons, and inch Into fruits jii tnc open a,ir. The j trouble here is, u i- usually too dry in Minmie; ; c\tn\ tiu-ig get •. patched except in well cultivated hiiutb. A huge tiade ib done heie m fuut growing, into whieti 1 am Uug<_iy enloiing. L ,im putting in this planting tune about two aciCb, and uveiy season will, if health and all things permit, extend ab means alow. 1 ha\e cleaied >xnd town about i\ acies in errais this .season, and I expect within four >eai^, it spared, that 1 shall have a good mcoino i.om my planting, oven should fiuib come down veiy much. At present my income is from wood-cut Lino, at which x .-.u\ i-^..0 coo j,jui week all louncl, bebide^ doing all kinds of other woik on the place. A man regularly cuts thiee tons ol timber at 2b pei ton, which i & diawn lo the whair for 3s 6d per ton, or It, 6d per ton tor drawing. An oidinary man like me can can 4t> or 5= pei day of eight houi->, fiom eight in the morning till live at nig nt. ! Many round here havo settled down yoais aco, and don't show much impiovement. They go to work lor otnei people, beeau&e they get a hbtle cash in hand. They plough and woik for other people bo long that theyaicina woi>u sstaie than wlien hr-l settled, if woik is, slack they have nothing Lo bung in a penny.' Aftoi gi\ ing a nia-s- vi liifoi uuilioii a-s to wages, t,te., tie wiuei j)'oi-eeds. — " rhe beat information i o lite h<uui hook v! Mow Ze iku d v\ Ineii can be >4Ot fi( m the Auent-Ucneivk Weetmin&tt.i C'iuimLu:-, Lonuun. as my own expeuenee liat- siiowii it. to bo tiuthful and lelublc, aud ,i u^ecl riught will enable a man ot lon-e to know if he is tit for the oounliy and the country lit for him. M\ advice is : Don't come if you aie i:n\villin»- 10 work, tor muny aic disappointed alter ai living hcie. lam near the mai k when 1 bay that 90 pei cent, get a\va.> if they can. There ia not a liner country m the woild than this, oui colony leaeiiing m oomc instances 45 bushclb ot wheat, -md close on 80 oi oats per aeie. i No country can come up to ib for ciopping, and without much aid from manures we havo tv o cropa. per season. The uees are all cvei green. What with the burning mountains, in the distance, and tho boiling spiings clo&e to us, i have no hesitation in sayinu- that it will some day stand first in om - Empire."

The Farnell Comniis&'on. You can generally gauge' the amount of I public interebb taken in anything impor- ! cant, lluiL is going on by Uie quantity ot godaip alloat. Now there is no gossip worth the name about the Parnell Commission. Most people, I'm afraid, have lost all interest m subject Sympathy with the "Times" (so strong before the sitting commenced), luis at nny nite sunk to zero. Where are the revelations so boldly and confidently piomiscd day atter day in lib leading columns. There is not a whisper of th'Mn in the air. Reporters aic eeabele* o in their endeavours to probe the clouds ot " Tunes "' witnesses always hanging abont the Couitb. Several oi the evening papeia muot have expended considerable sums in the vain endeavour to iind out something bciibational. Nog that the witne&scb are uncommunicative. On the contrary they are candour itself, bufc they've really nothing to tell that we don't know. The scene in Couit is, of course, interesting, and at times dramatic enough, if theio were any point mit all. One't blood boiled at the shocking *Lone.i told by Lady Mountmoriis, poor old Mr* Leaghey, and Lizzie Curtain. Jn no caso, however, ha& &ir Richard r ebstei been able to tiace home the laintefeb connivance to any ot the lJarnellibo lead ci&. v oiy often, too, Sir Chas. Russell has &ucceeded in showing that private animosities and hatred ot landloidism luib really beon at the bottom of crimes attiibuted to the National League.

Tho Board of Trade is compelling electric companies to obtain Parliamentary sanction to their operations. The authorities of St. Louis, Missouri, have prohibited boxing exhibitions by Kilrain and Mitchell. Mr L. Courtney, Chairman of Committees in tho House of Commons, has been created a Privy Councillor. Sir William Jervois declined bo accepb anobhor term ot office as Governor of New Zoaland. London and Liverpool arc- both ab the lovol of bho &ca. Ula&gow is 30ft abovo it, Manchester 50fb, and Birmingham 300 ft, James Wallock, a New South Wales engineer, is ab work upon a steamship which ho says will mako 60 miles an hour.