GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 22 October 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Miss Edith Searle Cms-man, in the course of an article in the Empire lievie* on the "Women of Xew Zealand/' says*—"The Maorilandcr never loses a sensed' beauty, a touch of idealism and spirituality: a softness and luxuriance of feeling and fancy which seem inspired by the climate and seanery of her country. Here is the imaginative gloom of the idealist. The Xcw Zealandcr is not English, but British: in a country found by both English and Scotch, without anv predominant partnership of one over the other, she is the result of a more complete fusion than has taken place in the Kingdom. Highland blood especially tells. The Xew Zealandcr is more emotional than the English woman, and less patient. She lias 'the indignation spirit of the north'; there is a spark of fire in her and it burns up against personal or public wrong. Yet though she resents she is not petty or spiteful in her resentment. A da=h of Celtic romance and fancy displays itself itself in her imperfect literary effort;; her sadness and her lightness of heart i are not altogether native, but partly Celtic, and her desire for education and her interest in theories are partly derived from Scotch ancestry. At any age after her twenty-first birthday she will travel alone all over the world and bachclorisc in risky neighborhood of London and I'aris without the least intentional bravado, merely because she is unsuspicious, fearless, and interested in everything." One tiling which struck a rrcent visitor to London from Wellington (says the Post) was the fact, he says, that he was able when at Heme to obtain Xew Zealand poultry of superior quality that tfat which is sold in the Dominion, and at prices below what are ruling in this country. There is no doubt, he asserts, that the best birds are sent Home, and it is strange that they can be sold at a profit at rates below those prevailing in Xew Zealand. An offer of an exceptional character has been made to the Government. Mr Henry Burling, senr.. of Brooklanls, Tiraiimea, is prepareo to contribute CoOO towards tin- metalling of the AlfrcdtonWelier road, on condition that the f!o----vernment and County Council subsidise the contribution to the extent of .-CjiflO each, bringing the amount of to £ISOO. \ further condition is that the workshall be completed by Ist March. 1008. Vs the Alfredton-Wcber road is a main line, the offer of Mr Burling, who has been settled on his present homestead for 4(1 years, must be regarded as fairly liberal.' Tt has been referred to the Minister of Public Works.