MASTERTONIANS ABROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2887, 1 May 1888, Page 2

MASTERTONIANS ABROAD.

MrE, A. S. Wyllie in America.

By the San Francisco Mail just ar rived, Mr Joseph Williams hag reoeived from otu' popular erstwhile fellow townsman Mr E. A. S. Wyllie, who is now living in Tulare City, California, U.S.A., several interesting photographs taken by himself. These may be seen in the window of Mr Williams' establishment, and will no doubt attract considerable attention, Mr Thos. Wrigley, who left Masterton so recently, has, it seems, already come across Mr Wyllie in the "Land of the Yank," and two or three of the pictures are likenesses of Messrs Wyllie, Wrigley, and a mutual friend, while the others illustrate the marvellous multitude of hares in America, where "pussy" seems to thrive much as " bunny" does with us. Some .of the photograps show the hare 3 being driven up into a race, and tho others show them there in durance vile by the thousand, both before being clubbed and after. In the latter case, the dead and dying lie in tremendous heaps, and are surrounded by a crowd of sight-seers, including numerous ladies, who have evidontly congregated to see the happy despatch of the captured victims. Mr Wyllie has also accompanied his gift to Mr Williams with a short letter descriptive of his doings and the state of things of Tulare City and in California generally, from which we'extract the following:—" To our surprise Tom Wrigley and a friend of his turned up a few days ago, on their way from Frisco to Los Angelos. They stayed one night and a day. I strongly advised them to go on to Los Angelos, as it has the name of being the most go-a-head towu in California, as you may fancy when some five years ago it was a place of about 4,000 inhabitants whereas now it has over 100,000 and there aro thousands going there every month, Well to my surprise, I heard from Wrigley after being there a day, in which ho soemed quite do wn-heavte d and said he could not get anything to do, and that there were hundreds of men idle. Tney have now gone on ■to a place where they hoped to get work and I trust they may, but, at the same time I cannot help thinking that Wrigley is a bit home-sick, and therefore takes a gloomy aspect of However, I hope soon to hear that they are doing well. I am enclosing a photo of Wrigley and his friend, also one of the three of us. They will show you and the boys that we are alive and well.

We have every prospects of a grand season, having had any amount of rain which io all this place needs, Money is plentiful, and T. fancy the place will double its size in (he next twelve months, We have now got three banks, and a new street of three-storey brick buildings, so you will see that we are still going on, We have thousands of hares here, and of late they have been killing them off by forming a drive, and running them into a yard. The pictures I send show them alive in one, and dead in the other."

Mr Wyllie then, with a few words of remembrance to. Masterton friends, closes his letter, promising to write again soon.