The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-21

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He buried his gr beside her mother
but to him she is not dead. lie believes,
simple, literal soul, that Gods love has
given him one OF the many mansions, and
that sho waits for him there at its win.
dow her face ilumined by a light that
will never grow dim or fade away.
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The following extract is from a letter
written by Mr. Jonas G.. Clark to his
brother in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Mr..
Clark is, We believe brother Of Mrs.
b. Il. Robbins of Cornwall,
GRAHAMsTowN. New Zealand, !
February, 1873.
Dear Brother | am now employed in
the reduction works OF the Caledonia
Company, This mine has been one Of
the richest gold mines yet discovered ,hav
ing produced in one year one halt million
ounces Of the precious metal, Its former
glory, however, like many other Of less
note has departed, and this place is suf.
ieriug severely from that epidemic called
hard times. My time is better and more
pleasantly occupied since entered into
the employment Of the company. It's di.
vision is, 8 hours work, S hours sleep and
rest, aud hours reading and recreation,
amusement or any way like. My en-.
ployment is light and permanent as long
as like to follow it.
The season has been favorable for the
growth Of most kinds Of fruit, and ut this
time february there is abundance OF
peaches, uectarines, grapes, &c. Garden
produce is also plentiful, and the "staff Of
life cannot be considered dear,in prov.
iucN which mus; import most Of its bread
stufis, when the 2 10. loaf is t 2 to I'D.
-four ZIG to ClS pc" ton, board at sec.
ond rate hotels and eating houses, 81 per
week tha better class E2 per week; tea
:, Gd to 3s Ga per h., sugar 81, bacon
Is, fresh beef 6 to 81, mutton 8 to IL,
the : sterling being So, the % cents
federal currency.
may here state that few counties Ell.
JOY more agreeable or hcalthlal climate
than the northern provinces, but the south.
crn portions Of the island have the udvan-
tagc III the fertility Of the soil, and large
areas Of agricultural and grazing lands.
The physical geography OF this country
presents some remarEahle features. 1t is
all OF volcanic formation, some portions
being Of recent date. Immediately u.
round the capital Of this province, Auc.
land, there are hundreds Of small craters
Of volcanoes, Uuvo active, perhaps. as
Tongariro, that at the present time belch.
es fire and streams Of red hot lava, from
its cloud capped summit. | believe it is
the only active burning mountain now in
the island, and is situated in the north
part of the island. A little more than
forty miles from here are Numerous hot
springs, possessing various degrees Of
temperature, some being so hot that leg
Of mutton will be thoroughly boiled in
fiteeu minutes when immersed in it
Some natives have accidentally fallen
into some OF them aud have been literally
" cooked " in few minutes In various
places in the vicinity OF these boiling
spring- are to be seen deep assures in the
earth where various colored clays aud
earth in diff rent states of iquefa ction
are constantly boiling and seuding up
cloud, Of steam and sniphurions vapors.
The traveller often passes over thin crust
OF " scorla so thin that it al nost bends
beneath him, and forms the only barrier
between him and ilimitable depths of
boiling mud anl subtcrraneous fires The
general aspect of the country is wild and
broken, the mountains rise to great
hight aud are covered with perpetual
snow, while the lower portions, or downs,
are thickly covered with vegetation so
rank and entangled with parasitic wires,
that it is impossible to penetrate any dis.
tance without cutting road as you pro.
ceed The forests present one UNMARRIED
scene Of deepest green, and the trees grow
to an enormous size. The " Kouri " is
that used principally for building, some.
what resembling the pine OF America, s
to Q feet in diameter, and % or 100 feet
high before reaching the first l'mb. The
" Rate grows to an immense size and
quite peculiar in lts growth and forma
tion First it is vine casping the trunk
OF tree, and climbing to its highest
branches. Other tendrils shoot out trom
the parent vine aud clasp the trunk OF
the supporting tree with thousand tiny
fingers whose tightening grasp, as the vine
increases in growth, will ultimately dc.
stroy its friendly supporter, and take its
place as one Of the largest trees Of the
forest
New Zealand unlike Australia or Tas-
mania, is singuarly free from all Vencm.
Gus and repuIsive reptiles. No snakes,
lizards, ignauos, toads or frogs but re.
Gently frogs have been imported and in-
trodnced into some OF the ponds Of the
public gardens in Canterbury, by the &C.
chmation society of mat province. The
salmon also has been successfully intro.
duced in some OF the southern provinces
although for variety, quality and abund-
ance, thluk there is no country eqnal TO
New Zealand for fish ; the waters of nu-
merous bays are literally alive with the
linny denizens Of the deep, and from the
foul lagoon in the swamp, to the spark
ling cascade that leaps from the glacierd
summit Of The IN JuDtain, may be found
abundance of the delicate silver and the
black rank yellow eels, There are no
"mammalia" indigenous to these Islands
that | am aware of, unless it he the ma.
tive rat, and that, think, msut have an
European origin. Since Capt. Cook,
little more than u century since, discov.
cred these Islands, the few hogs he left
on them have peopled every part Of the
land with their porcine descendants, and