AS OTHERS SEE US.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1440, 24 September 1881, Page 4

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A well-known writer in the English Press ,on New Zealand, who is now in !Nelson, lias placed at the Mail's disposal his last communication to the Field, in the course of which he says :—: — " The ohroniclor of to-day has to speak of New Zealand in the shade. In a word, the whole colony is in a very penitential mood. A good many recent emigrants attracted hither by the pictmes of New Zealand in her glory, are suffering from a feevere disillusion process. The gblden nuggets do not roll in their way, and the gay life of the squatter lacks the charm "which distance lent it. Whatthon ? La it true that the ' New Zealand bubble' has really burst, as some of her deeming 1 foes would suggest ! Not a bit of it. Never in my judgment was. the colony more thoroughly sound. A calmer cooler mood haa bivperveued, and inflation is for a time at an end. Squatters ( may for a time disappear, but it will only s be to make way for a mucn more satisfactory form of agriculture. There will bo fewer largo fortunes made, but many more well-to-do farm homesteads 'will be fec'atteied over the huge areas. In lieu of occasional good times to agriculturists, springing from causes inoro or less accidental, prosperity will be sought in buperior farming and greater enterprise m supplying 1 the woild's markets. With unparalleled natural advantages, , and ,an, immense aiea of rich alluvial ' soil, New Zealand will hold her own among the world's producers., No one who haH seen the spectacle which 1 witnessed at Port Lyttleton a month ago can doubt this. The hundreds of thousands of sacks of wheat, second to none in quality, which were lying there for shipment to England, were an eloquent testimony to ( tho productive power of Now Zealand, and even from this ' sleepy hollow 1 of Nelson I saw yestciday the Electro sailing off with nearly 8000 &acka of bailey, buch as I fancy will gladden the he.ufc of Mr Bass. Th'o success of the refrigerator experiment on board the Oiient line of pteameis is alfao big with piomibe to the beef and mutton groovers. On the lich gi,i>s lands of the North Island any quantity of beef can be grown, and the 13,000,000 of sheep already gui/ing theic over these veiduioclad hills may be multiplied indefinitely by the fioc u^e of English gras&ei,. Vast nreas which have been caiiynig only one riiGep to thiee acies, uill bo cultivated to keep and fatten three or four to the aoie Manufactories also will spring up, vvhe'eby thousands of artisans, weaver?, &c , may come over here and .spend then- mduntrious Uvcs beneath these glorious skies, instead of wasting tham in the eveicrowded and smoke enveloppd oitius of EngLtnd. Tins will give a homo tn.uket to the producer, and ie-act benefioally on all portions of the community. "This time, however, is not yet. Kew Zealand is undui a cloud, llival politicians, like paitueis iv a losing concern, are freely blaming 1 one another, and a thousand panaceas foi the hooialdcpipssioi; are daily louiled by the somewhat perplexed press. My own impiebsion i*« Thai the whole outcry is laigely a ' much .ido abQtit nothing' affair. The men who aie fulfilling the old conditions of tuoccss — ploodiug 1 industry, stiict economy, and tempeianuo — Ikuc htlle to complain of. At Dunedm I found the enfei - prising Hootch nil alive, and the lato Attorney - (Journal (the 4on lloboit Stout), with -whom T had half-aii-hour's chat, did not scum to know much about the ' depression.' A few ambitious speculators had come to grief, but the Otago world lolled on about as usual. Even the farmeis' outcry is moic an affair of caiele.s«nos,s ;md inefficiency than anything else. Two- thirds of the men know nothing about, their tiade. Their com is iufenor, then butter and cheese arc bad, and t*o no one will buy them except at a luiuously low price. Eor pood products theic js ever n nuukct. t'Six miles fiom whuo I write lives a farmer who never complains of the times l-fc' knows his business. His dairy is a pictuie of oidei, and his butter and cheese are 'ever at a premium in the lnaikct. Eight nilleb in nnothei dutttion is another f aimer — a fine old .■Soinoisolsline man — - who has little cause ot complaint. His farm of 1200 acies Mould cotnpaic fa\oiably with any faun iv England, and his ptoducts ate never siciificed m the market. I had a sample of his bailey in my hand which any English brewer would be glad of, and Ins butter and cheese would gladden the hcait of a London epicure. " To .sum up one's impressions of New Zealand m IHSI, the general outlook niuht bo pionouuced on the whole hopeful and uncournging. The < heck in the upward prices ot ie.il estate is favorable for investments, and I cannot help thinking that laigc numbei.s ot hard - pressed J ( 'uglish countiy gentlemen and young fannoifa with niodeiate i ipital and modeiato expectations may (In well hcic."

A now line of -snilimr voxels lins been established between I'm Hand, Chogeon, and Chinese ports, owned by the Oiegeon and Chinese Meiciintilo Company. Cholera, had broken out m Kagashima Ken. It is reported from Lo.nlon that J.unes (ioidon Jjuniiftt has muted the lion. Francis JLn\lc\, biothci of the Lite, find uncle of the pic-cnl L'ikl WoiitocU, to go out to New Voik, .vnd t\kc cluis^e of the Ifati'i' m^\h)),\[,L\, .aid ho Jus jKcepted the imitation. Law ley w.i •> the London Tun>^ tone jiondent <it JliUimoiul duiiiiir tlic ('oiifodc 1 ite wai.butdul not visit the noi th. Thomas lVfctit, of JJisfon, won the thampion^hip in tlie inti iiuiMou.il comt tennib match \\ itli ll' my Boakoi, oi Qupbeo, ch.impion of C'nid-i. if.niLin, of '1 oior to, li is acceplcd Tloss'.s cliallenjre to a l'owing 1 in.'txh. The nuti-cloric.il nio^oinonfi \\ ,xx n s fiprcoi m Home. The Ctntial UonmnUee arc lioldiu^ mfotinas foi the purpose of promoting .igitation throughout the country. The wiefctMng mafoli for tlio clriinpionfihip of AinouV.'i r.nd ']!)0 doll.as aside, between McPonald, of Can.uLi, .irid Lynch, of tlie United Sf.itos, took pl.iee at Halifax, and lcsiilted in favour oi the Canadian. One of the bripand 0 who cnptmul the Englishman, Rutor, np.ir Salonici, in Apiil l«i <-t, ha-, been ancstrd at Afhens, with 11,000 fianos in Ins pos^p^ioji. Mrr.woitT Cvra. ion Ern.ri-n —Six ounces of fresh roots, st.ilks, and leaves of inugwort, the roots to be one-third of the stalks and leaves ; cut the xoots sm.ill and bruise them ; boil in one quart of beer down lo a pint. An imperial nag^in to be taken three times a day, and one when an epileptic fit conies on. Its use in lie continued as Jong as necess.ny. Two ounces of dried roots, stalks and leaves ■will answer as well as six fresh ounces. The following 1 is also highly recommended : — Bromide ofjpotas'uum, one ounce, and water one pint , half a wineglasiful twice or three times daily. As the patient gets beeter, reduce the quantity, Afterwards continue one glass on fasting stomaoh'. We have known this to be a successful in a very serious case. A l^t!tbr from Southern Florida de*cr&e^'ti flight of white butterflies that filled the' 'air, like snowflakes, for six days, going north, probably, to become gxuba and worms in d staut corn or wheatfields. '