THE NEW ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 132, 25 November 1911, Page 5

THE NEW ENGLAND.

CHANGES AT HOME. DR. FITCHETT INTERVIEWED. Auckland, Novernier 22. Dr, Fitohett, the noted Australian journalist, was a passenger by the Zealandia. Interviewed 'on his travels today, he sajd:— "About my travels, eh? Well, I think a new England is being evolved—new in the political and social sense. The term 'Old England' to me, who visits it today, seems absurd. There is the energy of a new life beating in every vein of the Motherland. "London, with its amazing develop* incut of street traffic, a developmont not to be paralleled anywhere in the civilised world, seems in many senses a new city. The whole condition of city movement has been, quickened, anil what has happened in the traffic of the streets is b'ut a symbol of what is happening in ail thw realms of social and political life. . > "England, in short, is growing more wisely and nobly democratic; and as the masses are 'brought into fuller partnership with the whole life of the city, it is inevitable that , the strength and resources of the city itself will be multiplied. , AN AMAZING EMPIRE. "I sat in the Abbey and saw King George V. crowned, and the ceremony was stately and dignified beyond expressioii; but the most significent thing in the Abbey was the reflex it offered lof the amazing Empire over which George V. is reigning. When before this was there such a tangle of races, creeds, languages, and contrasted degrees of civilisation, all fused together and wedded into unity by loyalty to a common soil 1 "I saw the great naval review at Spifchead. It was such a collection of fighting ships—from the tiny, black sea gnats, the torpedo boats, up to the super-Dreadnoughts as never before was gathered at one point in sea space. Here was the naval strength of the British Empire set 'in long, drab-colored lines of ironclads before one's very eyes. No other nation could gather such a fleet, and that fleet is the pledge and guard of the safety of the Empire, and the safety of every Dominion in that Empire depends upon that fleet.

IMPRESSIONS (W CANADA, "T came across Canada. That immense country is in a condition of what might be called effervescent prosperity, Mid 1 is amusingly and exultantly conscious of its 'own prosperity. Canada has learn beyond all the other provinces of the British Empire the art of successfully advertising itself, and each Canadian is an advertisement of the greatness of Canada set on two legs. He is a grainaphone, or rather a megaphone, perpetually sounding out the praises of Canada, and there is mucu in Canada to justify that praise; but it has no. elements of prosperity which New Zealand and Australia do not possess in equal degree, and both these latter countries, it may be added, possess some elements of wealth and happiness to which Canada has no claim. The harsh winter, the bleak, treeless prairies, must make agricultural life in the older Dominion stern, not to say almost intolerable, while both in New Zealand and Australia life is set amid happy conditions; labor is easier, mo* ney can be made with less strain and effort, and life generally is more richly suffused with enjoyment than Canada. "I know, with reasonable fulness, the principal countries of the civilised world, and I am certain that there are none, which offer such possibilities of happiness, if not of wealth, as do New Zealand and Australia."