THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 18 April 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906.

Under the heading "Young New Zealand," a Loudon paper has a somewhat enthusiastic article upon some features q v ' New Zealand life. "It begins by saying:—"Tho remarkable achievements of the New Zealand team, no less than the grand physique of its members, x should bring home to the dwellers in the Old Country, far more foioibly than scores of printed dissertations, tho superior conditions of life enjoyed by the rising generation in far-off, sunny Maoriland. To those here who are familiar with even the best type of England's youth and early manhood, and who had tbe the privilege of seeing the New Zealand team prior to its departure, there was never much doubt as to which would be the winning side. The New Zeßlandera who recently visited England may be looked upoi\ as an, excellently-chosen representation of the young men of

New Zealand. The real, typical New Zealander in height hovers somewhere in the neighbourhood of eix feet, is broad in shoulder, strong, and clean in limb. Nor does he display the tendency of the SoutD Africans and Australians to become long, lean and lanky. There are none of the straight lines about the New Zealanders which have earned for New South Wales men the not inappropriate name of "Cornstalks.".

Next the writer has a word to say for New Zealand's Prime Minister. Thus:—"Mr Seddon, the Premier of the colony, is often bantered, in a spirit of friendly humour, with being the main source of New Zealand's prosperity; but whatever may have been the effects of his legislation in other directions, there can be no question as to its results in adding to the material well-being af the people. The conditions under which work of all descriptions is carried on in New Zealand to-day, it is safe to say, are everywhere in advance of those prevailing throughout Gieat Biitain and on the Continent. . . . While the colonials

are energetic and excellent workmen, fresh arrivals always declare that the New Zealanders 'take things easy.' That easiness is, however, not due to dawdling, bat to the short hours and to the physical fitness of the New Zealanders, which fitness new arrivals are quick to experience. The high standard of living, combined with the short workinc day, and the health-giving pastimes which are pursued, reveal the secret of the fine physique of the New Zealanders. And it must be at once stated that, so far as the consumption of intoxicating liquors is concerned, they are perhaps the most careful and abstemious of any people within the Empire." In conclusion, the writer reflects;, "One wonders what will be the future of this wonderful land, and of the splendid type of humanity it is produoing. The New Zelanders possess many admirable qualities. They are frank and manly, and are free from the contaminations of old and populous cities. United to their pride of country is profound devotion to the land of their fathers, to the 'little island under the North Star,' whioh they speak of as 'Home.'"

An interesting comparison of prices ruling in the Addington saleyards from March 22nd, 1905, to Maroh 21at, 1906, is made by the Weekly Press, which shows that fat wethers reaohed their highest price on August 9th, when they fetched up to 355, a orice which, high as it appears to be, has been exceeded in years of scaroity. During the twelve months, however, there has been a considerable fall in all classes of fat and store sheep, and, summarising the position, our oontemporaiy shows that wethers have fallen in the twelve months from 25s 6d to 21s, fat lambs from 19s Gd. to 17e, fat ewes from 24s 6d to 17s 6d, breeding ewes from 22s 6d to 15s 6d, store wethers from 21s Gd to 17s 6d, and store lambs from ifis to 13s 6d. A special feature of the autumn snles of Btore sheep was tbe largo number that came to hand from the North Islaud, Nelson, Marlborough and the Chatham Islands. So largely were those parts then drawn upon that, the Press states, comparatively few sheep are coming to hand this year, and prices throughout the oolony are now more nearly approximate than they have hitherto been.