ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3943, 20 October 1891, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A Haw Zealanoer on Ms Travels,

Mr John Ross, of Sargood, Son, & ; Ewen, while in the United States, had the opportunity of meeting many i commercial men who were glad to get 1 all the information possible as to this colony and its resources, and he was i able to answer many of their i inquiries. He was very much struck when in San Francisco with the lighting of the city, which was by ths electric light. The effect was beautiful, the city at night being lighted up throughout with a splendour which gas could not in any way approach. With regard to the mail routes, his impression is that the Vancouver route will ultimately come to the front, unless swifter steamers —say, 16-knot vessels, are put on the line. Tn Salt Lake City he had to look over the boot and clothing factories of the Zion Co-operative Store, a Mormon business established where the latest machinery was employed, and an enormous turnover done, though the Gentiles were fast encroaching upon tne domain of the followers of Brigham Young. At Chicago, the most wonderfully progressive City of the Great Republic, large bodies of men are engaged in getting the ground ready for the World's Pair. Jn New York he was struck hy the predominance of the Jewish element. The passage across the Atlantic from New York was made in the Teutonic, one of the greyhounds of the Atlantic, a superb vessel reeling off her 500 miles a day, and carrying 1,700 passengers and crew, and which had since broken the record. Pamphlets and leaflets, etc., in profusion were scattered about on board gratuitously, giving full information concerning America; but although there were 700 steerage passengers—many of them British workmen homeward bound, with money tbey had earned in the States—there was not a single flyleaf in circulation to New Zealand existed, or was a suitable place for working men or small farmers to emigrate to. During his stay in the Mother Country Uf r sqss was very much impressed with the groat improvement in the social condition of the working classes since his last visit, and especially so in Scotland. Both in town and country the working classes were better paid, housed, clothed, fed, and educated, and a marked change for the bett.ejf was j}oiiceable. There was stjll great' ignorance about vllonjal matters and the cqlonies generally, hut the general feeling in 'financial circles was averse to anymore colonjai borrowing. —Auckland I/emld,