News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-06
FAIR NEW ZEALAND.
VISITED BY OR. TkLMAGE IN HIS TRIP
AROUND THE WORLD.
Some of the Many Pleasing Surprises-Suc-
cess of Woman sufrrage-A Bishops Ex-
PLANTATION Of Famous 'T3lunder"-Grand
Reception TO the Brooklyn Divine.

DUNEDIN, Kew Zealand, July co.
lhe angels of night were descending
from the evening skies and ascending
from the waves of the Pacific and rid
ing down in black chariot Of shadow
from the mountains of New Zealand as
we approached the harbor of Auckland,
and the lighthouse on the rocks held up
its great torch to keep US off the reefs
and to show us the way to safe wharf
age, seeming to say: "Yonder is a path
of wavcsl Ride into peacel Accept the
welcome of this islandP'
1t was half past o'clock when the
great screw of our steamer ceased to
swirl the waters, and the gangplank
was lowered, and we descended to the
firm land, our name called as we heard
it spoken by a multitude who were
there to greet us. Strange sensation was
it 10, 600 miles from home to hear our
name pronounced by those whose faces
we had never seen before, and whose
! faces could be only dimly seen now by
! the lanterns on the docks and the lights
of our ship, just allied after a long
voyage What made the night more
memorable was that l was suddenly in
formed at s O'Clock l was to lecture in
their hall, and 30 minutes was short
time to allow poor sailor like myself
to get physical and mental equipoise aft
er 81 days pitching. But at o'clock
was ready and confronted throng of
people cordial and genial as any one
ever saluted from platform or pulpit
l told how for many days had been
! looking off on q great ocean of ipecac,
but that had not wanted, as many say
under such circumstances, to be thrown
overheard and that l did not think any
one ever did want to be thrown over
board, and reminded them of the seasick
voyager who said he wished to be
thrown into the sea, and the captain had
sailor dash ON him a pailful of cold
ocean water, and when the soaked and
shivering man protested and asked the
captain what he meant by such an in
suit the captain replied, "You wanted
to be thrown overheard, and | thought
! L y
bucket of the water before you took the
whole ocean.
Never SO glad were we to stand on
firm land as the night of our arrival at
Auckland. Wondrous New Zealand!
Few people realize how it was discover
ed. They tell US of Captain Cook and of
Dutch navigatOrs, but all the islands of
the South sea as well as this immense
New Zealand were discovered as a result
of the effort to watch the transit of
! Venus over the suns disk from the
South seas. The Royal society sent out
ships for this purpose, and Captain Cook
and the astronomers and bOtanists who
accompanied him on his voyage were
only the agents Of science. How the in
terests of this world are linked with the
behavior Of other worlds, and how the
fact mentioned suggests that most Of the
valuable things known i'll this world
have been found out while looking for
something else, and what sublimity all
this gives to the work of the explorer,
the transit Of Venus an island of light,
resulting i'll the transit of many islands
from the unknown into the well known.
But the proves Of such men can never
be fully appreciated. The sea captain
who puts out in this day of charts and
navigating apparatus with ship of 49,
600 tons for another hemisphere, daring
typhoons and cyclones, strange currents
and hidden rocks, must be brave man,
but who can measure the courage of
Cabot or Marco Polo or Captain Cook
sailing out into unknown seas, across
wilderncsses of water that have never
been mapped, in ships of 200 tons, dis
covering rocks only by running upon
them and met on shore by savages ready
to scalp or roast them!
These challCngers of tempest and can
nibalism and oceanic horror must have
had nerve and valor beyond that of any
other heroes. Such men set New Zea-
land as a gem into the crown of the
worlds geography. To me and to most
people who come here New Zealand is
splendid surprise. We have all read so
much about the superstitions and out
rageous cruelty of this land in other
times that we are startled ON arriving
here to find more churches in New Zea-
land than i'll America in proportion to the
number of the population. In one village
that visited since coming here 1 find
eight churches to a population of B, 600
people. There are too many churches in
many places in New Zealand, and they
jostle each other and contend for right
of possession, hindering each other and
half starving many of their ministers,
as is sure to be the case when there are
too many churches, and consequently
not enough support for every one of
them.
Another surprise to me is that female
suffrage is in full blast l found elegant
ladies telling of their experience at the
ballot box, and | hereby report to the
American ladies now moving for the
right of female suffrage that New Zea-
land is clear ahead of them, and that
the experiment has been made here sue
cessfhlly. Instead of the ballot box de-
grading woman, woman is here elevat-
ing the ballot box, and why i'll New Zea-
land or America or anywhere else should
man be so afraid to let woman have a
vote, as though man himself had made
such grand use of it? Look at the il
hterates and the incompetents who have
t;en elected to office and see how poorly
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