THE HARBOR LOAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 10 July 1909, Page 5

THE HARBOR LOAN.

BETUEN OF MESSRS CUNNKii Al\l> Messrs J. B. Connett (chairman oi the New Plymouth Harbor Board) aua -Kewton King (the lioarus ueaouivry, \nm ; iuivejbeen to England as iue liuaida agents iiu floating the loan mxiK... ; authbrised ; by uit ratepayers, leiui^'d ito New Plymouth by iu»t digui s a»tress, j, A "Daily reporter liad a ton .vernation »nii uic upon iue mail train last evening. 01 toiiist iju_. had nothing to icgaidi.i- in,.- h,ju negotiations peiiumg lut.r report to a Bpociul meeting 01 Uie iioard on Monday next. Asked concerning uie trip, its

enjoyment, or otherwise, ooili geuueiucn Were emphatic in staling uiat there -, tad been no enjoyment at an. f HURRIED TKAVKLLIMJ

J friin hero to Loudon at about the worst i season of the year tor travelling, several weeks' worrying business m iue it great metropolis, severe attacks of in"t ttuenza, yuiost insufferable neat in tue $ Red belt, Buffeting about in a two days r ~, mdnsooa in the Indian Ueean, and tueu ia tempestuous passage Iroin Syuuey to Wellington, were, a tew outstanding ieatures of the trip as gathered trow subsequent conversation. "I wouldn't do the same trip again for love or money," ejaculated Mr. Connett, and Mr. King ferveatly echoed the remark. The journey across the pacific Ocean to British Columbia was made under apost trying conditions. They left here i.'sin lie summer months and experienced weather until well to the northwward of the equator, when they plunged fanto winter's cold, the suddea change beSjng remarkably unpleasant. $ IN CANADA.

. I Mr. and Miss Connett went to Vaa\youver, but Mr. and Mrs. King and party ijeft the vessel at Victoria City, and '' grossed to Seattle, which lias the repus| totion of being the most startling speciW lien ot rapid city-raising in the world. Fj Seattle now iboasts; a pppulation of some J* feO.OOO. aad at the time of this visit *@. we pec} ie were all agog with excite- * Beat in preparing for the great Ex- „ jbsition which wag opened there the finer day. Vancouver is spoken of by ,' file yi'jagtursas a city progressing unJer most modem conditions. .'- lAs before mentioned, the weather was - Utterly cold, the whole" countryside he's fot frozen. Tie party put in a day at < liiuilpeg, where thej were informed V hat only the week before the temperaure was) 50 degrees below zero, or 82 fJ Bgrees of frost. Hundreds of meu were * tationed along the route of the Can- ■>' dian-Pacific rail-way to keep it clear of - ' i rifts and slips. In Montreal there must »ve been thousands of men engaged in ! reakisg up the ice from the streets—- * i )Ud, block ice, fully a foot ia thick- ; ess. Thf whole country was under i low. Passages had been booked from : [ontreaL to England, but the great ' : iverSt. Lawrence was frozen over, and i ar travellers found themselves forced b agaia take to the railway, landing 11 ■ I- NEW YORK. They had very little time—only a couple of houra—in this great city of Yankee bustle and activity, but could not fail ''"to be impressed with the prodigious teight of the sky-scraping buildings. A right well worth seeing was the Brooklyn bridge, with its- teeming crowds always passiag and re-passing, on foot, onrailway or tram-ear, cabs, and all manner of conveyances. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

fortune favored them in the matter of conveyance across the "herring-pond," their arrival in New York fitting in Kicely with the time of departure of the ' favorite Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, of 25,000 tons, one of the "crack" vessels of the great fleets plying between the old world and the new. This great steamer, ivith her five or six decks, was most magnificently fitted and furnished, like a floating palace. She crossed un■Ber easy steam, taking eight days on the run, and this ensured the most luxu- . rious travelling—no noise, no throbbing of engines, no disturbing motion of any ' kind. "I couldn't have believed it possible if I hadn't been there," said Mr. Connett. Every morning a newspaper was issued, with the latest Marconigrams picked up by the vessel's receiving apparatus.

ARRIVAL IN LONDON, ft was a miserable and wet Sunday morning, and an early morning at that, ■when the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria dropped her English passengers at Plyf mouth, gad then steamer to Cherbourg and Hamburg. Five o'clock on the morning 'of March 28th saw the party landed «*• length on Old English soil, and here /4ae voyageurs broke their ranks for a while, Mr. and Miss Connett going to Exeter and Mr. King's party (comprising Mr. and Mrs. King, Miss King, and Mr. Truby King) direct to London by .special boat train. Snow had fallen Jilt very long before, and the weather ' Was ro'd. In fact, snow fell for weeks' .afterwards, right up to May. At this stage Mr. King, in answer to • query, said that there could be no compar'son between railway travelling in England and in America, the Eng•Vlilta, sj«um providing greater comfort fOr, the passengers, smoother roads,' and «b on. The officials were everywhere ■J»ry- comteous and attentive, and it , was noticeable that whereas the EngT»as very conservative and dis- [ inclined for conversation, the American was very conservative. '_ Mr. Janded in London on Sunday morning, and was 6oon located at the ', "Waldorf, - ' just off the Strand. During i Monday be was busy learning "the run of the ropes" a little, and on Tuesday when Mr. Connett came up he was ready yfor work. Mr. Connett stayed at " The 5 HowaTd," in Norfolk street, also just off 'tile Strand, and not far from Mr. King's fceadqoartern. Of the dealings with the financial genii of the great city nothing r could be gleamed, with, the exception , that the deputation was very well re- _" eeived, and that the introductions gained through Sir Jcj-crh Ward and the Hon. H!. Hall-Jones, our. High Commissioner, were extremely valuable. DONE AT LAST. *■ 'Th-y wers well_ pleased when at last .v» loan had been underwritten, and ."their labors were eased. Then Mr. Con- , actt, who had been feeling "peckish" fif a i 'k or so, consulted a doctor, i i i ■ t; dered to bed for a week with li~.u his adviser telling him ho " ought to have been there a week earlier , «nd that he would have to be a great • deal improved before he could hope to ; return to New Zealand, as he had planned, via the Red Sea. At the end of the iieck he was still far from well, and, feeling it impossible to recover 'n London's atmosphere, he persuaded his J!tS"wls to allow him to go to Bourncraui. , ihere he soon regained a little gtu'j o vh and then set off for his native ' Sir of Devonshire, to recuperate.

t A PEW IMPRESSIONS. vJJEW ZEALAND NOT ADVERTISED. i » One thing that struck both Mr. Con-' f nett and Mr. King was that New Zea-1 - land is not sufficiently advertised in I ' I/Ondon; she is far in the rear of other j 'colonies For instance, Canada, Rhod-1, { lesia, Victoria and Queensland all have pj their Agents-General and High Commis- , (doners' quarters in the Strand. There j thejj have a shop in which they show j the antlers of deer and other trophies of sport, wheat, wool, fruits, and vari- , DOB other products of the soil, as well , t? M 9b/>fog ra J>hs of scenery, etc. These , vffißplßya are made on the Strand, where 'Here is always' a crowd of people, and 1 where one may always see a number r" i ile inspecting and examining the a i l shown. But no such advertisest ment of New Zealand- can be seen any%where. The New;. Zealand High Comt ibissiouer's office is situated upstairs in a <. a side street. * Sm Joseph Ward's Dreadnought eable- [| t, j.«th u was in the people's mouth when »£ the party landed in London, and the %S people seemed to have been impress ;d gL~irith the idea that of all Britain's defependencies New Zealand was the most iy&ioyal. |> ' OUR BUTTER IN LONDON. %£ Mr. King informed our reporter that Sklie had had little time to go into the pSquestion of our dairy produce on the Ks-iondott market. But he managed to g|rin!»ke one or 'wo hurried l visits to apfpooley street, where he found New Zea||t£lsnd butter enjoyed an excellent repuThere were very many strong however, from the merchants ||i|P»t the New Zealand butter showed this season, far more so thin This the merchant; at Home at to an excess of moisture, and, or wrongly, they blamed the le&gimpuied churn and butter-worker for ragpfh"? Wbilit not endeavoring to create BKJ&f&re, he said that this wae a matter ™fcUl»| demanded the close attention of lypMily factory managers and directorates, j Hfijfoiiftliey were pa} ing ocean freight on Bspiafar And spoiling the reputation of B|pjjj|r hotter It was a matter which' easily remedied, and should WgSMf'l&? Conaett ventuied the rcirnrt. with an excessive mois■shllK Wtent seemed td be affected, hi of refrigeration, becoming grain They were veiy hjitter on the Home nfarMKBBsXmiis t cheese, the New, Zealand M in favor, and tljcj concerning that/i

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