RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8000, 11 December 1905, Page 3

RUSSIA.

AS- AUSTBAIiIAN'S VIEW. Thus writes A. H. Hales, the A us. t traMan, special Correspondent :—" X ■ would *ovißc men who are'in a wnall : boßihes|,to strain a point JW : do • not wait until the chance has pass.*!. Pack at small (bag. gut a |»assport, take steamer from Londi n llrnlgt fHairs, and skip over to St. IVlershirg. ami have a look round. When I cnuie across it cost uie about £6 10b, and took about live days to do

the trip froin city to city. I think the farm by boat are a little higher I , now. When you I>ack your bog, put as littl#. British prejudice in as pos- | sißle—>V« can do without it. Jjuu will find the.KußMan: merchant ado- j lightful fellow, courteiius aixl obliging, and very eager to know all you oan tell -him about London. Leavo your preconceived notions about the. country •behind jrmi. When yon grrt then look round canufully. push your business as Uw tier-mans push theirs, jro on to Moscow, and from there ti> Irkutsk, visit tfce big towns on ronte : -be rua-dy to buy or sell : use u little iconrmon sense and civility, and you will And every- police officer in the country twilhng to help you tm o London conslaSilo is to help an Aiwrican visitor bexc. I never bail a bit of trouble all the way between the Mongolian frontier uird St. Pet-t-rsburg ; neither will you. If >»u can afford H. open sbc-ps «•*""' I' ush yoor trade, and push it hard; let too** »omc i'f the smart, brainy comracrefal travell.-rs that one sees so often in English' cities—they II soon pick' tip the Jan«uage. and. the ■tra-fle, too, if you give thvm the ch-anor. Don't stay at home a nd whttc about dull time* and toe dread vou have of thfl slackness of connng winter flct up and hustle, and let voorf rivals *w that John Hull, shopkeeper, is alive, and able to bold Ms own with anythiits **»y breed in BerV Hn or New York."