Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-04
IN NEW ZEALAND.
raE VOYAGE OUT AND SOME OF THE
ISClDENT5
Comparative sgricnlture-Amusem s-A
Correspondents Arrival at
Auckland.


olulu to Auckland was like that from San
Francisco to Observation-Disclosures as far
as sunny skies, fresh air, warmth, good
board and lodging go to make up the sum of
mcrta! felicity, and yet, true to human
tradition, there was little happiness on
board, though the usual amusements of
music, song, dance, cards, chess, checkers,
ETC., were participated in. "a life on the
ocean wave; home or the rolling deep"
is romance best enjoyed in our parlors
or upon the stage. Sundays were duly
observed by divine service in "Social
Hall, )" bu. the scene reminded us more of
the closing fcenes of low jinks entertain
ment, with dash of that solemnity Of
features arising from anticipations of the
approaching meeting with wife, mother
and the other fond ones awaiting us at
home. The Episcopal service is not well
adapted TO such occasions. 1t requires too
much rising and standing, while the char
| acterlstic bowling and genuheo.ion entirely
lose their distinctiveness. Everybody
has noticed how unsteady sailor is ON
land. May it be that we have here clue
to the occupation OF early Episcopalians
and the Introduction of genutlections. etc
Ii so there is a connection between them
and the disciples indicated.
OUR PASSENGERS
Were mostly colonists returning home from
trips to the United States, England, and
elsewhere. Among the number was wor-
thy New Zealand granger and ci-devant
captain. He had been on three months
agricultural mission TO the United States,
with instructions to gather all possible iu.
formation upon the processes employed by
| Uncle Sam in making and packing butter,
bacon and cheese. During one or two con.
versations | cleaned some of the main
points reached, and wss amazed at their
scope. Since his return he mas been lee.
turing his fellow grapgers, telling them
that their cowa win each yield $40 per an
mum in dairy working, because, with infe-
ricr pastures and climate, that much is
made in the United States. where he did
rot see an acre Of grass land equal 10 that
! in this vicinity, to say nothing about a
8 much inferior agriculture He thinks,
however, that Americans have quite revo-
K.
leaving it to the imagination Of his hearers
60 conjecture the process Of oleomargarine-
| making, only limiting thst pigs are profit
able Invt stment for dairy association
He secured several machines of most i'm
proved patterns. From thege as models
| others will be manufactured, fer, like all
American inventions, they may be repro.
duced here Nirhort fear Of patent infringe
m cnNl lottaru ha,y.0y ayplin1 for
because the operation would entail endless
trauJ!e aud expsrse, and prove more ex-
asperatipg than Marx Twain found his
atteInot 10 copyright his " Prince and Pau.
per in Canada.
Tue Captain saw no good cattle till he
reached the province Of Ontario. Canada.
Tais is rather q setback for Wall street
and the calves ia New York's gold-room,
which he viaited. But even in Bradford
the pasture lands were also inferior to
those about Auckland. for which the
Canadian thistle is chiefly to blame. At
one of tie towns large cheese fair was
being held, and there the Kanucks re.
caived home-thrust at the hands of our
martial Granger, which riled them so ter
ribly that they came rear turning their
most medita'ive ard double back -actioned
mule upon him The Captain told them
they were away behind Americans in labor
saving machinery. and that they might
60 with two men where they employed
three Oar valiant Captain is too versa
tile genius 10 confue himself to observa-
lions on COWS and pigs and things. Hav.
ing philo sophic turn Of mind, he loves
to dwell upon abstruse questions. Science
is his forte, aud astronomy a passion. As
he lay on deck one night gazing at the
pale moon. il occurred 20 him that there
was something unusua! about her looks, az
well SIS IN the arrangement of stars. He
did not tell me if she winked at him, nor
how his soul was wrung within him, and
the unutterable emotions that filed his
manly bosom on finding himself in the
northern hemisphere and thousands of
miles from those he loved, nor of the IN
hidden tear that dinmed his manly eye as
ne hurriedly leaned ever the quarter rail
with convulsive throe, az # meditating
suicide, aad recalling with shudder the
low temperature of watery grave. On
many subsequent occasions he scanned the
starry skies. finding consolation for the
loss Of his Southern Ccoss and it's compan-
ion consultations in the delights of the &C.
lestial plow, whose amazing durability
challenged his admiration. Despite I'M
numbered years Of constant service, it
looked as good as new. 1t was not until
his return across the vast Pacific that he
succeeded in solving the moons mystery,
and it will doubtless interest scientific men
70 learn, as it did the City OF Sydney pas.
sengers, that we in the antipodes see her
other side, for this is the discovery made
by the bold Captain with the naked eye
alone Seine jealous old scientific fossils
mSy pooE-pooh the idea, but that is
ever the way with them. They never take
kindly to new truths. Behold their treat
ment OF Calico, Columbus, Harvey and the
noble army OF men born before their time
ANOTHER EVENT
Which puzzled many on board was the loss
of day. Dnring the fret week ont from
Honolulu the days came and went with due
order and decorum, but in the second week
Friday did not put in an appearance at ali.
Some philosophers on board tried to &C.
count for such an untoward event, but to
the last it was declared a mystery by some
who were thus cheated out OF a days
NAL de mere, bosrd and lodging. Here
our granger friend had the advantage of
u.s. He had found Gn extra day in going
to San Francisco, there being two Thurs
days in one of his weeks. Aucklanders
are working themselves into a fever over
an Act of the late Legislature extending
the New Zealand law upon contagious
disease prevention to their town. The
provisions of the Act are similar to those
relating to English seaport towns. The
daily papers deserve credit for the manner
in which they eschewed the unwholesome
subject, despite tie public depravity which
clamored for its discussion, but they have
finally been compelled to yield, and are
now publishing columns of fetid CORE
spondence daily. Good Christian ladies'
are making themselves unenviably conspic.
uous by holding mass ne ,tings, palavering,
petitioning and disagreeing. One petition
To the municipal authorities declares that,
Your petitioners most respectfully
record their regret that 10 provision
is made for the punishment of
those Of the other sex to whose vicious
conduct large proportion of the class
known as unfortunate owe their ruin.
That the subsection of females to an ex-
animation such as that contemplated is en-
indignity which every woman must resent
as an insult to our common humanity, and
degradation to which no British woman
should be subjected" The document is
fifty feet long, and contains many sigma
lures Of ladies living at distance from
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