The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1889. A Notable Example.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3350, 1 November 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1889. A Notable Example.

A couple of years ago there resided at Wellington a gentleman distinguished in practical and scientific circles, who has subsequently reliuguished the social and other advantages which lie enjoyed as a dweller in the Empire City, and retired into tho country to try tho ideal colonial existence which so in my who come to these shores persistently shun. When we first landed in New Zealand sometime in the sixties, the

first thing which struck us as singularly anomalous was the appearance onLambton Quay of sundry citizens attired in black frock coats, belltopper hats, and wearing the regulation kid gloves of the parent country. We had imagined that it was etiquette for colonists to appear in more unconventional raiment, and wondered why, if stovepipe hats were essential to their peace of mind* they did not remain in the land of their

birth, where it is customary to sacrifice comfort on the altar of fashion. However, we soon found out that city life in New Zealand was almost a counterpart of city life in England, and that the real flavor of colonial life could only be tasted in

the country, Dr Hutchinson, the gentlemen to whom we havo referred as setting a notablo example, has apparently arrived- at a similar conclusion as to how a man ought to live in New Zealand. He has recently been interviewed by a reporter as to his experiences since he shook the dust of the Empire City off his feet, and we take from the (Jhristclwrcli Press the following account which he gave of bis life in a remote bush settlement of the Taranaki district: " I like it raoro than over 1 expected I should. 1 had grown tired of the worry of professional life when I was in Wellington, and i thought it was my duty to myself and my family to commenco a new and indepondont life, and I cotiaidor tliero ia no lifo so indepenont as that of tho pushing, successful farnior. You do not know how strongly I feel on this question, and how I should lib to »eo our young men in .this colony settling on farms, and endeavouring to achicvo au independence, instead of tryiiis: to get into tho Civil Sorvica or Hanks, and living in fear of being dismissed or fawning to their superior officers. There ia no independence to be secured in tho Civil Service, or in

many of tho occupations of city life am I cannot understand how the yuan; men of tho colony prefer a dependent miserable sort of life, when, if thoy only showed energy mid manliness, the] would enter upon tho healthy am active life on a farm. You must 1101

think J. havo settled down in the bush for move pastime, lam a hard worker, and my family and I mean to earn our living by hard working, improving our homestenl, and we have the satisfaction of knowim' that all tho improvements we do are for our own bene-

If New Zealamlers are to become in in the near future n really great nation, it will be from educated men like Dr Hutchinson taking their wives and families boldly out into the interior and bring up a generation which will be distinguished by conditions of physical and moral health and that independence which is the i reward of honest toil and industry. Many people liaye great faith in doctors, and even apart from their professional achievements tjie polony owes much to members «f the medical profession. Old settlers will recall the obligations for which this Provincial District is indebted to the late Dr l'eatherston, and our veteran Knight ol the Hutt Valley and Speaker of the Legislative Council was once called" Doctor," New Zealand medical men have attained high honors in the political world, and one of our doctors has even made a reputation outside the Colony by receiving a decoration as Count of the Roman Empire, but it remains for Dr Hutchinson to confer! fresh distinction upon his profession by entering upon it career in which he will assuredly raise the status, of j the bush settler, and stimulate, perhaps, many a young gentleman to regard honorable toil in the open as a grander .afld a better existence than stifling"") 'm PftW V sauntering along a jiayoßjent, and many a young

lady too, we tvuat, to esteem the culture of a garden, or the care of a 1 dairy, more interesting and profitable than a self sacrificing devo.t-ion to dress and lawn tennis,