The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1886. A NEW ZEALANDER ABROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2470, 7 December 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1886. A NEW ZEALANDER ABROAD.

i TflE ; Berks and Oxou Advertiser publishes the following intereiting effusion after listening to a lecture from one of our • New Zealanders abroad, Mr Arthur Clayden:-" Our friend MrClaydqn had a good audience , the other night at his 'Hour's Ghat about New Zealand,'and a vast deal of valuable information' he.gave about that interesting colony. Coming as it did from one everybody hows, it seemed to make a great impression, and we hear that several are contemplating going out.. Land at from £1 to"£3 per acre for the fee simple, whioh will grow corn in abundance, and grapes, melons, peaches, oranges] lemons, figs, and similar fruits; with' : n'o costs to apeak of for conveyance; and no tithes, and hardly any rates and' taxes, and a ready market for all that js. grown, can't be i bad place to go to,.and soonor or later a good many farmerg struggling with difficulties here will repair thero —that is, if they don't remain hero long enough to lose all; they.'have got," There jb a flowery odour about the above estimate of this colony which almost reminds one of the old verse— Thjpre is aland of pure delight, '■. . Whero onions grow on trees; Andsroasted pigs run crying out, ' "Oh, eatnie if you please I" . \ but the tharvellous is strained somewhat whence lecturer informed his audience thiit.in this happy community " there are hgjdly any rates or • taxes." If he had said,4| there were once i-pon a time hardly rates or taxes" he would have beec| nearer the' mark. There was a time %n taxation sat light on'this celony/i&ty rates wero nominal, but this was to Sir Julius Vogel's golden tho subsequent developments which radioalum has produced in a country which

was • once free from heavy burden's. 'Just at present. Hi' Clayden, had he 'beendisposed'to be cnndid, might have informed Wb audience that rotes and tups-grew in New Zealand far more luxuriantly than eithe'roranges, lemons, orJga.'