The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3911, 12 September 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1891.

The most valuable article ever written on New Zealand appears in the August number of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. It is beautifully illustrated and gives possibly to a million readers in America a vivid idea of this Colony. The writer is a Mr G. M. Grant, who evidently formed a favorable impression oi New Zealand a3 contrasted with Australia, and who does full justice to our beautiful scenery, healthy climate, and splendid resources. Minor errors in matters of detail, no doubt may be found in his sketch, as for example, when he spells our own mountain range Kimutacca, and announces that a Wairarapa setter had discovered an infallible specific for the rabbit pest in the tape worm, but the article as a whole is an extremely able summary of the chief points of interest which the colony presents to an intelligent observer. Numerically, be assigns more of such points of interest, within a small compass, to this Colony than to anj other, either in Africa or Australia. It is, he says, a combination of Switzerland, Southern FranGe, Norway and the Yellowstone Park, with the Tyrol and North Italy thrown in, and prophecies that before long that the tens of thousands of tired men and women who now converge every summer in Switzerland will meet in JNew Zealand. Speaking of our large towns he thinks Wellington is likely to hold its own as the national capital and distributing centre. Altogether the article is one of the most comforting and encourag. ing notices which New Zealand has yet received, and it must do this' Colony an immense amount of good in the big outside world where we are so little known.