The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
NEW ZEALAND.
A Graphic Account Of His Many Ex-
peTienCeS in That Country.


umphs-A Country of Pleasing Sur
prises.
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Dunedin, New Zealand, July 2O.-The
ANGELS of night were descending from the
evening skies and ascending from the
waves of the Pacific and riding down in
black chariot of shadow from the noun
tains of New Zealand as we approached
the harbor OF Auckland, and the light
house on the rocks held up its great torch
to keep US off the reefs, and to show us
the way to safe wharfage, seeming to say,
'Yonder is a path of waves! Ride into
peace Accept the welcome of this
island continent?"
IL was 1880 O'Clock when the great
screw of our steamer ceased to swirl the
waters, and the gang plank was lowered
and we assembled 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 10000 miles from
home to hear our name pronounced by
those whose faces we had never seen be-
fore, and whose faces could be only dimly
seen now by the lanterns on the docks
and the lights of our ship, just halted
after a long voyage. What made the
night more memorable was that l was
suddenly informed at o'clock was to
lecture in their hall, and thirty minutes
was short time to allow poor sailor like
myself to get physical and mental equi-
poise, after twenty-one days pitching.
But at O'Clock l was ready and con-
fronted a throng of people, cordial and
genial as any one ever saluted from plat
form or pulpit.
l told how for many days I had been
looking OF on a great ocean of ipecac, but
that | had not wanted, as many say I'M
der such circums tanceS. 10 be thrown
overheard, and that / 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, ard the captain had a sailor
dash on him pailful of cold ocean water,
and when the soaked and shivering man
protested and asked the captain what he
meant by such an insult, the captain re-
Piled You wanted to be thrown over
board, and 1 thought would let you try
how you liked a bucket of the water be-
fore you took the whole ocean"
Never so glad were we to stand on firm
land as the night of our arrival at Auck-
land. Wondrous New Zealand Few peo-
pie realize how it was discovered. They
tell US Of Capt. Cook and of Dutch navi-
gators, but all the islands of the South
sea as well as this immense New Zealand
were discovered as result of the effort
TO watch the transit of Venus over the
suns disc from the South seas. The
Royal Society sent out ships for this pur-
pose, and Capt. Cook and the astronomers
and botaniSts who accompanied him on
his voyage were only the agents of
science. How the interests of this world
are linked with the behavior of other
worlds, and how the fact men
toned suggests that most of the valuable
things known in this would have been found
out while looking for something else, and
what suhlimity all this gives to the
work OF the explorer, the transit of We
nus, an island of light, resulting in the
tfanSlt OF many Islands from the unknown
into the well known. But the prowess 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 10000 tons for another hemis-
phere, daring typhoons and cyclones,
strange currents and hidden rocks, must
be brave man; but who can measure the
courage of Cabot. or Marco Paulo, or Capt
Cook, sailing out into unknown seas,
across wildernesses of water that have
never been mapped, in ships of 200 tons,
discovering rocks only by running upon
them and met on shore by SaVageS read y
to scalp or roast them. These challeugers
of tempest and cannibalism and oceanic
horror must have had nerve and valor
beyond that of any other heroes. Such
men set New Zealand as a gem into
the crown of the worlds geography. To
me and 10 most people who come here,
New Zealand is splendid surprise. We
have all read so much about the supersti-
lions and outrageous cruelty of this land
IN other times, that we are startled on ar
irving here to find more churches in New
Zealand than in America, in proportion
to the number of the population. In one
Vill9Up that 7 visited Sinpp pOrniDr bara T
md eight churches TO a population of
5000 people. There are TOO many
churches in many places in New Zealand
and they .ostle each other and contend
Tor 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 conse-
quently not enough support for every one
OF them.
Another surprise to me is that female
Suffrage is in full blast. | found elegant
ladies' telling of their experience at tho
ballot box, and l hereby report to the
American ladies now moving for the right
OF female suffrage that New Zealand is
clear ahead of them and that the expert
ment has been made here successfully
Instead of the ballot box degrading wo-
man, woman is here elevating the ballot
0oX, and why in New Zealand or America
or anywhere else should man be afraid to
lev woman have vote, as though man
himself had made such a grand use of it.
Look at the illIterates and the incompe-
tents who have been elected to ONCE and
see how poorly the masculines have eXer-
clsed the right of suurage look at the
governments Of nine-tenths of the Ameri-
can cities and see what work the ballot
DoA has done in the possession of
man. Man at the ballot, box
Is failure, give woman a
chance. l am not clear that govern
mental affairs will be made any better by
Ihe change; but they cannot be any worse.
New Aealand has tried it, let England and
america try it. 1t is often said in
America that if women had the right 10
vote they would not exercise it. For the
reiutation of that theory put the fact
mat in the last election in New Zealand
OF lO9,OOO women who registered 10000
nave voted, while Of the $4,000 men who
registered only 10000 have voted. This
Iato shows that women are more anxious
10 vote than men. Perhaps woman will
YET save politics. / know the charge that
sne Is responsible for the ruin of her race,
since she first ate the forbidden fruit in
PARADISE, but ! think there is a chapter
IN mat matter of kdenic fruit not written.
L0lQk that Adam when he saw Eve l.