A Liverpudlian View of New Zealand.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2997, 7 September 1888, Page 2

A Liverpudlian View of New Zealand.

A writer in the Liverpool Mercury of the 25th of April last, while reviewing "Stone's Dictionary 1 ' foi the current year, thus expresses himself about New Zealand :

Somehow, peoplo in this country 1 cannot rid themselves of the idea that 1 New Zealand is little better than waste land. It is covered, it is true, with a rioh vegetation, evidence of. a fine soil, but still waste in the sense ofbeing devoid of oivilised inhabitants. The Maori wars are.remembered beoause soldiers who saw active service in the colony when that brave race fought for the land oi their fathers against the encroaching white man told at the fireside the story of the fights and rather gave the impression that unless one went about with a perfect'arsenal of weapons on one's person no one was safe in New Zealand. It is a very mistaken notion.- The brave Maoris'have fought their last fight, and are,'not only few in number, but.hamless to the 'white settler. They .are only now awaiting the inevitable day when the last Maoris have followed the native Tasmaman and becomeas extinot as W : dodo.. Possibly here we have a reason why New Zealand has not prospered as it. deserved. Charles Kingsley said that the Eng. hsh were such a fine race because, of the east wind, which killed the weak--1 lings off, In these happier days the ' weaklings may be saved to become strong and able men and women by 1 going to New' Zealand. None of our 1 colonies have a finer olimate, orone better fitted to restore vigour to the wasted consumptive or other valetudinarians upon whom the blustering east winds of our changeful weather press hardly. New Zealanders are a wonderful vigorous race, and not ' without belief in the future of their I adopted country. They have opened it up with spiritj have built fine docks and other public works which, though they have given the colony a respectable debt, will in time prove a handsome investment. A colony 1 where nearly every man owns his own house, and where almost every workman has a deposit in a savings bank, is not without a hopeful future.