The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15

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ing daily of New Zealand. and Isaac
Gibbs. general manager of the New
Zealand Shipping company's line OF
steamers. arrived yesterday in the city
Both gentlemen are accompanied BY
their families. Messrs. Stead and Gibbs
are r!pened examples of what the climate
OF New zealand may do for its denizens
Two of Mr. Stead's four children were
born in New Zealand They further
emphasize its virtues.
Mr.. Stead is one of the most prominent
mutton exporters of New Zealand. be-
sides being engaged in the newspaper
business. His proclivities in the latter
direction were probably induced by the
knowledge that his uncle, William Stead
OF London. editor of the Pail Nal
Gazette, had achieved distinction by ex-
posing the traffic in women in the
modern Babylon before he wrote a bool,
called when Christ Comes to Chicago.
MI George Stead will be a guest of his
more distinguished relative when he
reaches the British metropolis.
One will be surprised to learn that
in Mr.. George Steads New Zealand
rome the citizens rather give Auckland
the supercilious eyebrow. Christchurch
where the Steads reside has As 600 popula-
tion- 1t is situated six miles inland from
It's port. Littleton. a sea coast suburb
that depends wholly upon the. commerce
furnished by Christchurch. There are
many things to know about Christ
church. 1t exports more frozen mutton
per head than any other port in the
world. and all of this produce goes either
TO Montevideo and other South American
cities or TO England. There are two di-
lect lines of steamships from New Zea-
land to Great Britain, one. the New Zea-
land Sh1Dolng company at the head of
which is Mr.. Gibbs and the Stow-Saville-
Albion company. The largest and fastest
vessel of the Gibbs line is the Rouahanie
of 5000 tons. the rival boat of the AL
blon line being the Gothic of 1900 tons.
These steamers ply a fortnightly serv-
Ice from Auckland and ChriStchurch to
London, touching en- route at Capetown
Montevidio, South America and thence
on long run TO the British isles. The
passages in round figures for each vessel
requires from 40 to AZ days.
g 81 g
Among some of the extraordinary
Things OF New Zealand are a railway tun-
mel one and one-half miles in length be-
tween Littleton and Christchurch which
cost 100000 This latest continent of
the known world produces more wheat
and oats per acre than any other country
If 100 bushels for each acre are not a
common thing in other portions of the
globe. Its prize grazing district is
Hawkstay where eight sheep are fed TO
the acre through. = inter. without re-
course to artificial 'ouder. Canterbury,
in the South ISLAM. ce'-L.-Sed for its
output of frozen ialnb viii, has an
average weight of 10 pounds when not
over three months of age. The usual
proportion of the lambs to the ewes is 30
to 80 per cent.
Mr.. Stead predicted that Christchurch
would in time become the leading city of
New Zealand although Auckland now
has over a half a million In the North
and South Islands, the white population
is 10000 to about 5000 Maoris. The
whole area of the continent is Sc, 600. 900
square miles or about as large as Great
Britain The climate varies from a semi
tropical temperature at Auckland in the
North Island to one as cold as Scotland
in the South Island. Wages for day labor
are seven shillings and Il shillings for
skilled labor. Compositors are paid
fS. los per week.
Hon. Thomas H. Cavanaugh, the prime
spirit of the Sewer water power project,
is teeming with western "reminiscences.
He does not confine his anecdotes of per-
sonal experience to any particular pursuit
in life Once he was mining man. then
a printer, now a contractor. but of oil
recollections he goes back with printer
relish to the time he was publishing the
old Topeka Commonwealth in Kansas.
The mere moulding of Farmers Alliance
opinion in the grasshopper state does not
attach any Importance to itself in Mr..
Cavanaughs mind. 1t is because men
who have gained renown ground out copy
for him. He points with pride to the
fact that he once employed Gene Field.
Howe. who wrote the STORY OF a
Country Town.. F. J. V. Skiff, now di-
rector of the Field meseum, Chicago, and
Charlie Gleed. all newspaper men of high
rank. Mr.. Cavanaugh could relate tales
Of these men until volume resulted.
During the Harrison campaign. Mr..
Cavanaugh was running a paper at
Olympia, Wash. When the victory of the
Republican party was assured, Cava-
naugh's paper came out in bright YER
million, his way of painting the town.
Mrs. H. W. Haviland, of San Francisco,
and Harriet E. Stafford, of Buffalo, n.
T., are at the Knutsford
w d. and Miss Wilson. of Sheffield,
England, were of yesterdays visitors.
A. Osborne Knight and wife. Auckland,
Y. H., on the way to Great Britain,
stopped in the city yesterday.
H. S. Haynes. prominent wool broker
Of Sydney. Australia, was at the Knuts
ford yesterday.
Miss Julia ]. Spillane. of Denver, repre-
senting Cycling West, and more familiar
y known as Crimson Rim Brownie, is
1 visitor in this city, and is renewing her
acquaintance among. the cycling fra
-ernity. There is perhaps no young lady
SO generally known among wheelmen,
md whenever she stops in her constant
.ravels she always finds familiar faces
and friends to greet her. After spending |
| few days in this city she will return TO
Denver and start on a tour of the Pa |
,ific coast after which she goes east and !
will then work her way westward and |
Miss Spillane attended a meeting of the |
Social Wheel club last evening, and was |
made an honorary member. She repre- I
;ents a bright and newsy cycle journal /
md usually leaves an increased list of |
Yesterdays hotel arrivals were: The |
<nutsford: w. F. Cadogan, Omaha; ]. |
g Hendry San Francisco; P. ]. Quealy, |
sock Springs; ]. NJ. Schumacher, Mrs. |
I. w Haviland. San Francisco. Harriette |
). Stafford Buffalo, n. Y; Charles H. |
Love. Cleveland; A. A. Hermann, c. l.. |
HERMANN. Reading. Pa; H. c. Lewis, |
N. Y: George c.. Stead, |
William Stead and family, Christchurch, |
y H.; W. D. and Miss Wilson. Sheffield. /
eng: Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Gibbs. Christ |
church. N H.: A. Osborne Knight and /
wife Auckland, n. S. w; H. S. Haynes. |
sydney. n. S. w; Lydell Baker. Port |
and Or: ]. S. Forrest. Denver; J. A. |
Erwin Thomas F. Kane. New York: r. |
=. Ford. Nampa, Ida; w. T. Blew. Min |
F. A. Yates. Chicago: f. L. |
Mrs. S. Sheppard, G. A. Billie. |
Altoona Pa; Fergus Lamb New York; !
= A Lascelles. C. Kuppenheime-. Chi |
ago; D. C. Wright. ST. Louis: James /
Holmes. Cincinnati; H. Lyme, Denver; H. /
9 Decantur. Boston; G. H. Martin, SEQ |
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