The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. THE GLOBE TROTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3102, 12 January 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. THE GLOBE TROTTER.

TiiEglobe trotter of the present decade is met with in great variety and frequency. Sometimes he is the youthful scion of a noble or ivealthy family, who is training himself for a future career by a trip round the lYorld; at others he is a middle aged politician or professional man, em Joying a loni? vacation by a big ton n the antipodes, or an elderly ma if means-travelling in search tealthand information. Bufc'whe ver be their age and conditio ' " hV

colonies like New Zealand bave every reason to entertain for globe trotters a profound admiration and respect, They are a modern institution altogether, a development of the steam age, when a man may travel 1 round the globe with more ; safety and convenience than his 1 great-grand sire could iu the last : century pass from one, county , td another. With us, tlie globe trot- . tor is welcome as flowers in Spring, . because it is not only his mission to carry tidings of our salubrious climate, our fertile soil, and our well behaved and intelligent population, to other parts of the earth, but also ■ to leave behind him as he passes . amongst us a little of the gold with which he is usually well supplied. He is a cash customer, who is quite ■ content for us to realise a fair margin ' of profit out of him, Just now we arc getting a few more travellers of this character about us than usual, and this is in a measure owing to the enterprise of that world renowned firm of., tourist agents, Thomas Cook and Sons, who have taken New Zealand up as a new field and are now absolutely sending people from one end of New Zealand to the other. Messrs Thomas Cook and Sons' coupons are beginning to circulate even in the Wairarapa, and we have recently had a number of globe trotters amongst us, journeying under their auspices. When tho trotter arrives in 'Auckland, Wellington, or some other of the principal towns of the colony, he usually goes straight to Messrs Cook and Sons'office and to up a New Zealand tour with the lqoal agent, pays down & totnp sum, and receives in return a colfectiou of coupons which pass him by railway and by coach wherever he wishes to go. He cau travel without purse or scrip, but not withouttheirmodernsubstitute, the convenient coupon. All over the colonies arrangements have been made by which eveu the bed and board of the trotter at thj'jp.country hotel is liquidated by the coupon, Wo would like to Bee an efficient travelling agency like this, which is certainly introducing new ideas amongst us, utilized even for other purposes than the accommodation of the globe trpttar, It is, perhaps, too much to expect pf. any Government, or we might venture to. suggest that if the Minister for Lauds with Messrs Thos. Cook and Sons to send a stream of Australian farmers, selected from the drought-hMiitetl agriculturalists j?f ; VfjoJiQria 1 ' ! and New South Wales, tlirpugh Ihjs lancj of perennial humidity, jhe order w.ould be executed with despatch at the lowest remunerative rates, and w£ should obtain ft valuable acquisition to our:somewhat spare stock of small capitalists' and employers of Iftbor. This'is the first, seasoifbf Messrs Thornas Cook and Sons' agency S New, WanaV .am} we can hardly expect as.'yet'to'get a quite alive to the expediency o!(itili|fing to the fullest possible extent'a 1 new business organisation of this

character, but the time will come, we hop'e, when a firm like that of Messrs Thomas Cook and Sons' will be called upon to aid the work of land settlement, as well as to facilitate the pleasure trips of birds of passage like the globe trotters'.