NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1364, 27 April 1883, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

A., writer, in the Sydney Ijclio, of April 6th, gives Ms opinion of Npvr " Zealpd, its people, its patriots,,and, its Press, in the following modestly ex* pressed paragraph:—lt-is' peopled by an industrious, an intelligent, a law-.- .•-. binding population:', and;.'it lias been governed; by wise, prudent, incorrupt •■•-■•' tiblo public men.:. The result of all .these'circumstances is noUjifficult to predict.; Already the .tympanum- of sound of footsteps ,of ~|that ■marching' ; v phalanx which in iheiear future ia ! ' going to precipitate the .country into a natW (to use the phrprbi one of its \-\ public men). The .evidences of its future greatness are becoming more and . ■; more cjinoiusive •ever^ ; day, ani I ,■':' : .. hope I shall ; not be.: ; 'with,:•: v speaking; in the - langiwgis^pfexaggera- • '"■■■ ■■■ tion'whenT say. that this remark-able-country,' poppled.-by thrifty,_ energetic, .-intelligent colonists, ruled'"'' I ;'' by ...able,'. . patriotioj public influenced by'a free and high-to|ed%j, ; Press, unsurpassed for its commercial^v position,., unrivalled in its-' iiatural' " .beauties, rich in its varied treasures of wealth, must become rich in all the truest and highest elements of national greatness; ajid:-wiien'ihe proudest dynasties'of Bnall have crumbled v; to the dust,; whe'n'the. vigorous life and splendid refinement of this nineteenth century shall give place to 'a higher culture and a purer, moralityj.the student oi history', poring over 'its 1 pages will find .there recorded in, letters of living firb, hoVthaV upder ithj? peerless •. gloryof the SoutherniCrosß,; the mm of New Zealand' {sprang from its ; circurnambient,Beas j :■■■: panoplied from the brain -of' JJJV&.'fio* listen to /the bursting r clarion^of' 4h .' exalted, community,' rapture on the sweeping bhtvalry of .aj-.-emiobledQ^ (^v;\iU:'/; :';. : ; :^>v' V : ,