AN AMERICAN OPINION OF NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1754, 2 October 1883, Page 4

AN AMERICAN OPINION OF NEW ZEALAND .

IMr R. P. Saxk, an Californian Stock brce lev and dealer, who is at present in Auckland, thus writes to the Herald :—: — "Sir, — 1 have .selected from the New Zealand Stud and Pedigree Stock Company 44 Hereford cattle, 10 Leicester and 30 Lincoln sheep, which I take to America per City of Sydney. Having travelled ov er parts of Now Zealand since my arrival, I must confers an agioeable surprise. Wo Americans have always considered New Zealand as a small island down in the southwest part of the world, where savages abound and no Saxons. 1 cannot understand why you have not thousands of young men from ' England here to in vest capital, also the labouung class, who cm got trohl'i and quadruple the -wages they do at home. Suioly the lesomcos of New Z'nLuid wan-ant it. Your climate cannot bo excelled, your .soil i.s rich, your cereals of the host, your w 00l and mutton supei ior, and even the mamifactuie of flax would make a fortune t> any entei pi lsmg go-ahead man. I have never .seen a more beautiful harbour than Auckland, and nature Inn done everything for location of beautiful homes. The beauty of your country, your gieatiesouices, and the hospitality of your people I shall never foiget; and A\eie it not that wo Yankees have plenty of laud to the acre (and a hen on Meuco), with plenty of push and per.sevei.uice, T could be pleased to become a New Zoo-lander. In shoit, I like your country and your people. My business being live htock, ' I see the lack you are tinder of mules and tiottmg hoi-.es. I believe mules hauhei, moie active, less expensive to keep, than oveigiown giade Clydesdales, besides they ha\ c bettei feet and aie untiring. Vov a fine o image horse, hack horse, or saddle hoi so, our Aineiican toottei has no oqu.il, li.uing less weight than adi.iught hoise, and moie bone than «i thorough bied. 1 believe the breeding of mules and Ameiican tiotteis, or lo.uKteis, would be highly profitable, and I would prefer agi.ide Noimanor I'uiohbion hoi so •with clean log- and good feet to jnm ClydesdaW. Should this, my hut, trip to New Zu.il.iiid piove a success, and our people like New Zealand Herefoid*. as well asKnyhsh Heiefoids, I sh.ill come again. I am lnueli pleaded with tlw stock of the New Zealand Stock and Pedig.ee (Joinpan v, and with youi enoigetic citi/.ci Mr Thos. Munii), who is Vice-I'iesident, also Mr Kvoiy M.iclcan, voui f.u'i 'tis ifeiefoul breeder, a*id All (f. Maclean, of Cian->toun. By the way, Mi U. Maclean lias iu-.ti noted the stock -v.vids ■ of the company, and it 1-. wondeiful to see the manner imentod to assoit and brand stock. It i-> con^tiucted on the best principles, and is a highly l.iboui -saving institution. T Msited Cambi idg<», I'Vn Court, and M'onins\ille, and lodo some 200 miles through the ouuti>. I lvheve Mdiun-\ die is bound to lv <i laige place, situated a,s it is so ne.w the goldlields, and the railroad passing thiough it.

"Do you think my daughtei is a flntatiom^t ?*' asked ;i lady of a gentleman at a watei ing- place. " I .ua sine f don't know, madam,' was tin 1 aiwwi'i. "I .uu not iin ol)S01 N.vtiolllst. "Wov'r v>u li.ivc .1 glass of soda, Doiothy?" a.k'-d one gul of , -mother the other ni','ht. "No, thank \.m," was the leply, " I haven't any cuffs on, and dassant raise my aim." Tim m-. in- tlnee thm<,- that the wisdom of thonio-4, learned in.n < annot dot-niuno — which way a singed cat w ill )nni]), how a, petit nny^ill gnoits \eidui, and what kind of a ni.ui a cl»vci woman w ill tiko <i fancy to Cluiy (100 l nip at tin, bonnets, Scv) : "Don't you think thov aio veiy handsome v<l Vmy (ulio,i> thoughts ,110011 11 10 otln'l side of' the stiect) "Veiv, especially the one w ltli ti bku k nioii>taehe." Ovr Kn'iieli -put-in m to anothei • "Well, did -s on kill ni.Miy putildges ' ' "Not one; butstill I im\eiy well Mti-.-fiod v ltli iu> si If ; I c nut- much neaiei than last year."' SriVK-. wont hoin<> the othn ni<,'ht afhie!}edwih double \Nnii. lie sit foi some tunowith hi, sleepy m/o mcttedon Mr* .S., ,uul thm c implicitly lomukod: "Well, 1 deJaie, if \<m two don't look 'nnugh like to lv twins." "'Pa, aie we going- to have an gul-y vani>>fd non on oui ne\\ liou^e .' " Vny w-li-a-t v ' " Any gnlvanised non "(!.ilviinisod, you in^a'i, don't a on " Ye->, ']ta, hut oui t".icliei no mu .lu't say pal — it-, pill ' ' A sm w I lny Avent to Ins Aftei looking taueily <7i.mnd the hand-HUiioly-fmnislied khhii wheie -,1k 1 sat, he excl.umud, lMqunniylv, '"Oh ;;ia'idma, ■\\huio is fclio JDisii.ib'o ta.l)lo pi[) i s.ijm you koeji '" " \' in," said an old -;entlenian thonyhtfully, .iftei y.Kinj,' s.ime time at the .skeleton of a doike\, and wondoiinjj at the htiuctuicof that do-pi-ed .mini il, " \\u arc fearfully and made!'' Aunt Esthei w.is tninj? to pei-uade littloEddvtoielue.it sunset, usiiif,' as an aiyvuncnt that tin; little duckciis wont to ioo-,t at th't tini". " Vos, ' siul liddy, " but tho old hun al\\ u , },'oe-. \\ ith them." "You seems ul and delected Lo-ni^ht, Claude, deal." " Yv-, d.uliii^, ni'Mi of my emotional natuie aie easih" aftected by tho flow ns or Minlei of toituno. His w.tsheivoni.in had dischaiyed him. Yoi' no\ei know how much A\.vtor an miibiolla is capabl' 1 of emit lining until you accidentally stiud it a^-mist the wall and on tho pe.ul-colomod c.v pet that cost M ]>ci A.ud. A no^ lead th.it " the gmxl die young," and is now going to the bid for self-piotec-tion Till, man who minds hiso\,n business was in the cit> on S.ituuku , butlcft lniiuedi.itely, ho felt soldiu'some Tin ie.i-.on I'.Vion li.itod a dumpy woman v.is that lie toiildu'tbc.u to see a good thingcut slim I " I !>ii einilent," said the fly in tho lukei's doug-h ; " sojiiob.idy will takoinefoi a em l ant. " Jloiiii.viu' foun ih took " ,„ stitch in tinii* ;" now, with tho aid of a sewingniaelnne, they take one m no time An Fiish pajx'i, (li'-^eiibing <t Lite duel, says that one oi the combatants was shot tJiiouvh tlio "(li's!^ p.ut of the tlng-h-bono/' A I'liliosoiMli I! whohad m.uiioda vulgar ghl used to call hei ''blown sugar,'" because, he s url, ' she was sweet, but uncfinod " Acoi'Min papoi w]ior,i)eaks<if a man mlio " died without the aid of a doctor, ' h iys th.it " such instances of death aie ran 1 ." A !Al>\ who sent an oidei in lesponsc to an adveitiseiuent oii'ei ing twenty -fi\o useful suticloi foi a tlneepennv stain]), rotencd twouty-fne pins. ()XK of tho sweetest pu tuies of domostio economy is a poet blacking a white stocking bo that it wont hliow tlnough the iissinos in his l)oot. Tnrni' is one tho.itiic.il minnger in this colony who can lof tee to engage a woman without making an enemy of hei. He tells her see's too young. A VniMONT diluting society will tackle the question, " Which is tho most fun — to .see a man tiy to thiead a needle oi a, woman tiy to dine a nail V"' '" My giashiis, dot oxt fit you like do litpor on do \alls!'' s.ud an old clothes dealci toa. countiy customoi to whom he was tiying to sell a misfit. " Will Love Win ?" is the title of a new novol. Wo feel authoiisod to saj that love, jnopoily backed with a bank account, will inako its ii.ii with sutci s-, o\eiy time." " Will you tell in (> ," asked an old gentleman of ,i lady. "What iMi^. X.'s maiden iianip A\as ?"' " Why, hoi maiden aim -was to got man iod, of course!" exclaimed the lady. Thk thcoiy that violins got tiiod by constant use is 1 one that cannot bo too industriously ci i ciliated in the inUuest of those who suffer from over practice by their amateur neighboui .s. Ax old bachelor iccently gavo the following toast Women— the morning star of infancy, the day star of manhood, the evening star of ago. Bless our stais, and may they always be kept at a telescopic distance. Tkamps have «igns and tokens. XXX on a gatepost means. " The old bloke who keepb this 'eie dossing ken has a gun and two bull-dog*, and all true gentleman will pass onto thonovt house." In New York so many have joined the Moderation Society and pledged themselves not to drink before dinner, that the twelve o'clock dinner hour of our grandfathers is again becoming popular. A btupknt who was thus once addressed by a pompous and ponderous senior, " Young man, what is your chief besetting sin ?" answered promptly : "My chief Presetting sin is to return impertinent answers to impertinent questions.' ' A contemporary says " Was there ever a > man who could' look at j a barber shaving him steadily in the eye'? l ' If a barber were ,/,' paving him ißt;eadi,ly in eye," we uhould think it would be difficult^for a, man lppk anything,