Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-06-14
Description of New Zealand.
BY REV. JOHN FRASER.
AN EX-M. P.


turn. Yet numbers still "leave their
country fer their country's good" They
usually 60 to seek their fortune or to enjoy
| larger freedom. Some are assisted by the
State; others by friends. tits not unusual
| for the scapegrace of some noble English
family to live in Otago or Victoria, enjoy
ing honorable exile on $4,000 or $40, 900
year. Some are not so fortunate.
On visiting at freside, whose name l
may as we'll give as it was no proper name |
at all, only Smith, no one will know him |
by it, l met with curious specimen of this |
class. We congratulated Smith on having |
made his fortune and being able to retire |
and live on his money" He replied he
was forced to retire from business by i'll |
health, and had made only bread and
cheese" $50 the English express it, to live
on, but that he enjoyed farming, and had
some curious neighbors he would like to
show us. So, after going over his parks
and "paddocks, examining pigs, admiring
his fowls, and being amused by an Austria
liam cockatoo and some other curiosities,
we were ready to call on his neighbor. He
was an Englishman; a gentleman of the
old school. 1t seemed out of place to find
him in hennery, but we might have tho't
Cincinattus out of place at his plow, or
Garabaldi in his factory. He had been a
millionaire, and az pertaining to his rank,
he owned a seat in Parliament, just as he
owned house at the seaside. In lucky
hour, so he was pleased to say, he sunk all
iD mining or manufacturing speculation,
for he never before knew Independence
He was far happier, he assured us, among
his fowls than in Parliament. He certain
ly must have been happier than Charles
Fifth in his retirement, regulating time
pieces. The hens needed little regulating.
They flew all around him and on to him,
atfectioately roostiIg on his head, shout
ders or back. We termed that he had been
) sent out by friend to live on tract of
land belonging to them, that he kept from
one to two hundred hens, lived on their
profits and enjoyed their company; seldom
eating himself, but when he fed them.
DISCUSSIONS.
The overweening colceit of certain Cock
neys, together with their ignorance Of ev-
4 erything outside of their own little world,
= which Ignorance they continually repaired
and built up around them like another
: Chinese wall, would be simply incredible,
t unless actually witnessed. My friend A.
l.. expressed great satisfaction in their @ av-
: ing caught live Yankee" and thought l
=. should be shown around as phenomenon,
s and then in his good natured way raised
IS the laugh by describing phenomenon
It The story he told is SO good it will bear
= repeating. John plownan, announced
. that he would deliver lecture on things
" in general. When The time come for the
y lecture, the minister of the parish, to en-
r courage him, took tie chair, and all his fell
e low servants attended. John explained
- the hard words as he proceeded till he came
10 to use the word pheiomenon. Now, said
lie he, my friends, we will suppose that 8
t, COW, but mind We, COW isn't a phenome
t. non. And we maysuppose an apple tree
6 but We must bear IN mind that an apple
~ tree is mt a PHENOMENON but ifa COW were
e. to climb an apple tree, that would be
It. phenomenon Certainly their union o
ID ignorance and conceit appeared to be
y phenomenon. Ny friend b. in a fit o
- condescension was ready to allow tina
D. America wasa great country. A great coun
f. try only England was greater. Englan'
rt ranked first, America second. He hadn'
10 the modesty of Lord Brougham, who, whel
y, asked who was the ablest orator in Eng
en- land, passed over himself, by saying, Lor
y Derby Is second. c., a professional ma
NJ ignorance He did not know and SCENE
= incapable of knowing after repeated in
I'll quiries, whether Canada bordered on th
", North or South | could only inform hiI
". that though it bordered on the South poll
ID ically, it bordered on the North geograpf
ically. | didn't ask him in turn, if Ems
&c land bordered on the Barbary States tt
al American war was the staple of discours
of and the subject of constant dispute. Mo
an people we found impaired their opinion
- like their provisions. The most of the p:
lh' pers copied and extracted untavorable new
by and antiAmerican statements from tt
he London Times and Saturday Review.
is few who had friends in America or wi
=. had been there themselves, took the rigl
-'0 side. In private by conversation, and
WIS public by lectures, 1t may be | was of son
mt, little assistance to them. We rode in An
ais erican stages and buggies, lived in hous
built of American timber, sat on Americs
chairs, used Quaker pals, and all sorts
on Boston notions, had our bread made of Ca
the ifornia -four, read cheap reprints of Anne
.ht. lean books, and the papers were filled wi
~, American news. Yet when the subject
NY allowing fees to ministers for officiating
ner marriage came'up in the Presbyterian S
, to nod it was enough to defeat the who
md measure that Noodle denounced it as " Ia
. kee notion"
ors THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMAsTER.
,o,r Speaking of domines, leads me to gi
" a sketch of Adam R., the pedagogue.
de- would have required Goldsmith todescri
'eo- him. Adam was character A Scotc
bile man OF course; L never knew an Ada
ont that wasn't; whence | conclude that t
Wv | or;ripo1 Il q Santnhvnan II "
ope a bachelor, good master" and wort
eby man, thong he had something of the 20
Oh Adam about him. His pupils studi
aloud, and he himself sometimes thong
, aloud. A man after Carlyle's own hear
'ne he believed in the virtues of the birch,
hat if it were the tree Of knowledge. He {
ant. spised "moral suasion" and all other n
nce tangled notions He evinced a soverei
contempt for womens rights, or, as my
'os' formant expressed it, "He rallied at t
on Sect" He was even heard to say, ooh, t
rent beauty y "That if no help meet had be
nm. provided for man We might all have n
been in Eden. No wonder that the JUG
anu ment come upon him that drove him {
7ery of his Eden" 1t is some comfort to thi
lere upon it; though his Eden was only t
dis. globe attached to the school, bit of ka
yard that ne delved. The way of it v
iein this The board wishing not to be so
IN "behind the times" decided to have
rth- male as assistant teacher and some oil
he Improvements. A governess of uncert;
Al, age. by dint of canvassing, secured
'no place. She made herself at home.
soon showed herself the master" and n
our modelled the school. She succeeded so W
lin. by mere assurance that Adam became frig
49, ened. He began to fear that she had
"i'' signs on his home and heart. He thous
ther it better to beat hasty retreat with
tiles loss of his baggage and munitions OF
allv than to surrender at discretion. he '
+onJ fairly driven off the field. 1t atiorde
'onu melancholy satisfaction to him even tt
IL that it fully confirmed his theory which
dies dignifed by the name of doctrine c.
edi- corning the reason which led Adam
- :, leave paradise and the tree OF knowled
Ell, mon," said my trusty gossip 1t '
gree an unco sad sight to see the master girl
RIGS; and greetin with Spite Poor soul, ne
es at his bonnie bit Eden, as he ca'ed it; :
ond his only comfort in leaving her in pos:
a ~ sion of the school, was, as he said, that
tne hadn't to tax her wi him."
l should like to add sketches of Sat
and day Reviewer, of Government detect
veys "a ~ ieuooo o5 captain bat i ~,
nc 80 Inat can sVand up IN GoaI 10 VII.
Tbo captain-and Of some other original CT
,unb acters. But 1 forbear as | have alre
'tbar written an unconscionably long article.
' hot may at some future time take the libt
,t;on of introducing to you and your read
tn of some o'nefs Vi 'hese my li'n0''
trav-
and On Sunday last, Mrs. Geo. Bennett
thus st. Johnsbury Centre, who was visiting
d the a relatives in Waterford-ata Mr.. Harv
st to who lives at Frog Pond-was taken i'll,
tons although urged not to undertake the j.
FE. ney, she insisted on being carried no
which Mr.. Harvey undertook to do. w