The New York herald., 1870-10-21
NEW ZEALAND.

The establishment OF mali service between Great
Britain and New Zealand via San Francisco is
boon which has been hailed with satisfaction by the
great body of the coonisis. The full benefits TO be
derived from this service have yet been but par
TALLY realized, and indeed the ubant feelings which
ita inauguration AT first excited have been somewhat
ampcned By the irregular arrival the steamers and
the want Of proper arrangements by our government
for the immediate transmission of the mails through
cut the various provinces upon their ARRIVAL at
Auckland. There generally occurs some hitch upon
the establishment OF all such extensive enterprises
and no doubt the one referred TO In connection with
the san Francisco mail service win speedily be re-
moved Already, however, the fruits OF this direct
communication are becoming apparent, and more
interest is every where felt the people and AFFAIRS
Of your mighty Continent, your laws, institutions
commerce and IN fact your country and yourselves
altogether. 10 so great nation as that OF America
such sympathy from the juvenile colony OF New
Zealand will AFFORD but little qualification, aud yet
am not without hopes that che connection which has
been established between ns may ultimately prove
beneficial TO both, not only In the engendering OF
"frendiy relations but Ia the matter OF pounds
shlngs and pence.
OMITTED STATES COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES
The commerce we carry with America even
now is far from insgnifcant--is, believe more
extensive scale than many nagiue. To give some
port OF American manufacture may quote para
graph which has the gauntlet OF our papers, ana
is from the pen Of q gcutleman or this city. He
says:-'I live in house covered with American
weatheT-boards, closed with American doors, win
dOws and locks lined, noored and nailed with Ameri-
can timber and nails. wear American boots and
clothes, made with American sewing machines. My
linen ii washed In American washing machine
In water drawn through an American pump into an
American bucket, r1nsed IN an American tub wnug
with All American wringer, fastened to the drying
pegs and mangled with an American mangIe. NV
clothes are brushed with an American brush; tho
Time Is indicated by an American cleck am taken
70 town IN an American coach driven by an Ameri-
can. II wish to invest IN tools tent &C. l
get tent OF American duck an Ameri-
can saw, axe ana spade, and strongly
recommended to get American agricultural
implements. l 60 to the tinsmith to get tinware;
he tells me he makes it with American tools and
machines. return home to dine thinking America
wonderful place. SIT on an American chair TO
take food that has been cooked in an American
stove; have American potatoes and top on with PIE
made with American n0ur and American dried
apples. ! ask why native apples are not used, and
am told they won't grow; the trees have got the
American blight Servant comes In, sweeps the
room with an American broom and takes the Dust
up IN what they call an American tulip shovel l
hear ali extraordinary whirrlng noise; ask what 1t
is and am told 1t is an American sewing machine
Bridget informs me that she mas got the toothache
and that mistress baby is very Ill., ASK what reme-
dies they use; am told she takes American pain
killer and baby takes Mrs. Winslow's American
soothing syrup. Casually remark dent feel well
myself, and recommended to take American
ssrsaparilla or Ayres American pills. In the even
1ng thinking to get rid OF America 60 to the theatre
and 6nd ara nln Nm rnar
Leave disguised and think will hear song | am
horri1ed 70 find am listening to the American sere
naders Heartily SICK Of America determine to
have supper and 60 home. Go into an American
cafe, get American picked salmon and butter that
was made In an American churn. After this give
IN and retire to my d0miclle, throw myself into q
seat, light q pipe, take up paper and find that
am sitting American rocking chair, reading
American jokes by the light OF an American lamp
filled with American oil and wick, smoking Ameri
can tobacco, with my feet on an American stoye
expectorating q Ia America. Finally, prepared for
bed take on my boots with an American bootjack
and 90 to sleep on an American bedstead where
dream that | am in America; and don't think it
COLONIAL AFFAIRS.
But while we have freely taken advantage Of the
ingenuity displayed by your countrymen In the
manufacture Of such articles those above referred
to 1t required the establishment OF direct communi
cation 10 excire spirit OF friendship and sympathy
between the TWO countries and believe the means
adopted although partaking only OF tine nature
Of purely mercantile speculation WILL at no dis
tant daie, lead to the most happy results The time
chosen for the commencement OF the service was
standing has existed between the imperial govern
ment and the cdOnial authorities upon the subject
OF tne amount m OF assistance and protection to be
extended by the former toward the colony In con-
sequence Of the amount demanded by Great Britain
for the service Of the troops which were few years
days ago stationed In the colony the colonial Legis
lature declined TO have anything to do with them
They determined upon self-reliant policy and re-
rently. exactly what the imperial governments
wanted They took the colonists at their word and
ceeded with. This movement was one most con
genial to the native rebels who then, doubt an
cpasea o SPEEDY v reaaaon - 81 their hopes Of
drive the white men into the sea. Geld d-blOoded
murders and massacres speedily easued; the
10 afford protection to the settlers. and soon re-
Rreted the adoption Of their boasted 'seIf-reliant
home government, but all such were disregarded
The replies or the Colonial Secretary were to the
special reqaess are able q pro,sc
yourselves from the handful of Mlfrendly MarOies
you oh, choose; ia and sslr.reant policy is the one
gven.n
-. A COMMISSION TO ENGLAND.
Correspondence having failed to produce the re-
snlts 10 eagerly sought by the colonial government
In the belief that q personal interview would be
attended with more favorable results than paper
war. They were cordially received; the Colonial
Secretary gave them q shake OF his paw,
sold them how delighted he was to see them,
and expressed the great interest he felt in
the dear but somewhat fracti0us colony
they represented; gave them pass into the
presence Of royalty, where they were graciousy
ahswn to make their bow after which they returned
the sign Of the three balls TO exchange their
dresses for their colonial toggery IN which they
expressed themselves feeling more comfortable.
Upon the subject of troops the Colonial Secretary
was 0bdurate; he laughed them 0ut OF their argu-
ments promised to allow them % borrow q little
money to purchase p0pguns and powder with which |
to frighten their dearly beloved brethren into sub
lection TO her Britannia Majesty, or to pay the pas
sages Of few OF their poor reiations to the colony
s'and so ended the show OF the puggy." The Com !
msstoners, having altogether dismissed from their
mnds the object OF their mission, felt delighted at
their pecuniary arrangements and III the exuber- |
atnce OF their JOY flashed the account Of their sue
cess by electric wires TO The ceionyat least "a near
10 II as the wires went.
rs CHARACTER OF TBE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
- meetlng Of the nGnnpral Assembly,, WAS aunl.