SEEING LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9707, 1 February 1910, Page 4

SEEING LONDON.

"Cold, wet, and dreary, London was evidently not at her best when we — visitors from New Zealand —stepped ashore at the Royal Albert Docks. However, we soon learned that it was not always wet and dreary there,' for the glorious sun rose next morning, and its warmth inspired us with new vigour.' So writes Mr Donald S. Haucox, a young Wellington resident, .in a contribution to an English paper. Part of the article is as follows:—"How vast, how full of misery and suffering, yet how full of splendour did the great city appear to our New Zealand eyes. We passed without recognition millions of faces, we rubbed shoulders with men of every nationality, and yet how lonely, how unutterably lonely we felt; more so than if we had been | lost in the vastness of our, own dense bush. We would have given much to have been able to shake countryman by the hand. We soon found that the real beauty of London lies not so much in its crowded thoroughfares as in its parks and suburbs. Accordingly we lengthened our excursions, and were rewarded beyond expectation with the sight of the wondrous beauty of the parks and gardens. Here, from all bustle and noise, her citizens see some of the wonders of Nature made doubly beautiful by the art of the landscape gardener, here they breathe air as fresh and as sweet as anywhere in all Merrie England.