AN AUSTRALIAN VISITOR.

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1052, 19 September 1901, Page 2

AN AUSTRALIAN VISITOR.

Mr Penghlley, a South Australian journalist, visited Hamilton to-day, en route to Rotorua. During a short conversation we found our visitor so greatly pleased with our colony that he intends to make it his future home. Respecting the Frees of our colony, Mr Pengelh y said : ‘ I think it is the greatest and most progressive of any in our States. It speaks and augurs much for the intellect of your townspeople and settlers, and tells of advancement in all things profitable bo the mind of man ; but when I look at your town, a small town, so to speak, and find two daily papers, I begin to enquire and wonder how it is done. I can point out two towns in South Australia, ten times the size of Hamilton, churning out a little demy weekly weakling every Saturday. Throughout the whole of Tasmania there are only eight newspapers published. Compare this with what exists in New Zealand. I have visited all your sights from Milford Sounds to Auckland, and am now anxious to view the great panorama which I have read so much about further south. In natural beauty your colony excels Tasmania, which is held to be Nature’s own garden. There is nothing to be seen anywhere, I doubt even in the Old Country, equal to the Milford Sounds scenery. You are favoured with a perfect climate and a regular rainfall; both of these we fail iu on the other side, and hence your success ao far as your cropped lands are concerned. This, of course, accounts for your success in all pursuits in life, and aids you to rear your edifices for knowledge aud keep your people from deeds of anarchy. J