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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 371, 25 May 1889, Page 1

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THE INNERMOST ROOM.

The singer sang the world a song-, And soon in< every tender heart , Its melody, sweet and strong 1 , Became a dear and lasting pf.it But no one knew and no one cared, That from supremest grief and wrong A breaking heart had leurned the notes That trembled into glorious song.

A woman who from every cup Had drank life's glad ami bitter streamsSat down and wrote a wondrous tale, As sweet and bright as fairy di earns. But no one knew and no one caied From what tumultuous sea of thought The soul in lonely voyages Its parable of life had brought. 'The teacher with a burning heart, With tongue as swift and hot as flame, Led with a wise and tender heart The world into itd highest aim. But no one asked aud no one knew Through what fieiceconilict day by day He won the victory which cleared For weaker hearts the higher way.For each soul has one inner room Where alone it seeks the grace To struggle with its sharpest woe, i Its hardest debtiny to face. To lift the duty when 1 it fears, To love, to trust, through every doom,And not the nearest, dearest heaitf Goes with it to that inner room.

AN AMERICAN'S VIEWS OF NEW ZEALAND.

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE! REV. E. G. PORTE-R. The Rev E. G. Porter, of Boston; ,(U.S.A # ), is now on a visit to Wei* lington. A representative" of this journal >(N. 2*. Mail), had an interview with the 5 reverend gentleman, when* he expressed his views as follows :—: — " I must confess I am greatly surprised at this Colony of your?. I hacf no idea of the vastness of your resources* We have no district in the whole of tho United States which compares wiikyour country. True, we have vfist mineral and grain belts, bnfc then they are isolated, and it is impossible to find such an amount of natural wealth in such a compact space as you have here; -you f have every facility for becoming, a great" country. •' I have lately returned from a>'fourmonths' trip through Japan. I tbmk> that country is destined to> become a' good customer of yours before long. Take" mutton, for instance. Ifc is next to impossible to raise sheep in Japan, owing to the prevalence of a noxious plant which ie fatal to sheep. I believe there is a vast market thcie for your frozen ■mutton. _ " Then with regard to wool. Japan' is erecting woollen mills in various parts,, and will want to buy wool in the best and cheapest market, an. s w here can she come to a better place than New Zealand ? I 1 have reasons for knowing that theJapanese Government will shortly send a Commissioner to New Zealand to consult your Government aivl your leading merchants on the wool question, ami: it is probably that this commissioner will try to make arrangements to introduce your wool as enrly as possible into' that popu'ous country, There is an enormous trade to be done in wool, mutton, and other products in Jnpan. It is a thickly populated country fas- ft taking up European idea?. '•Then I am surpiised at the small amount of trade you do with the Western Pacific Coast of the United States. I learn that you grow splendidfruifc in this Colony, and that yon could deliver in S.m Francisco at the season when Californian fruit i 3 scarce and dea-r. Your wool, too, ought to command a good market on that coast ; and as for your butter and cheese, you should do an immense trade with the Califo m fans. I visited several cheese and? butter factories id (he South Wand, and I am delight jd with the quality that is beins> turned oufe. I think your buttet and cheese are about the finest I havo |ever tasted, " Upon my return to Boston I shall' deliver a course of loctuivs upon New Zealand. I s'lall speak of your unrivaliod scenpiy, your magnificent climn'e, * and above all of your sp'endid natur. V resources. I believe your Colony has a gieat future before it I know no paib of the civilised world so highly favoured in so many respects. Yes, ifc is quite true what you remark. Your own people do not, I am afraid, fully realise the hue value of tho country they live in. "

, A remarkable feat of en^incerinc; was recently pei formed in America,, bj' the shifting en masse of an iron rnihvny bridge willing 1,600 tons to a distance 'of fiPty feet, at Holrnesburj? ."Function, on the Pennsylvania rail 1 oad. The operation wis performed in le^s than twelve niinute« j traffic w.is uninterrupted, and in an hour after the change an expross train from. New York passed over the btiuctiwse.