Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-01
snecial corresnondence.

Special Correspondence.
A UCKLAND, New Zealand, March
II l2.-It was in Warmers hotel,
~ Christ-church, New Zealand.
and the week was Horse Show
week, the carnival time Of the South
Island, when the bright weather is
bursting into spring, and all the colony
turns with one accord to junketns and
play.
There are those who say that young
New Zealand, like old Ireland, never
neglects its pleasures as long as 1t has
any business left to attend to- There
Is a spice of truth IN the saying, too,
but as young New Zealand manages
somewhow or other to get there just
the same" no one, in view Of the pres
ent prosperity Of the country can af-
ford to throw pebbles Of flinty proven
bal wisdom at her, especially II the
thrower happens to live in that garden
of all the athletic virtues over which
the Union Jack Is planted.
IL was in Warmers hotel, then, and
the man who plays least of all men in
New Zealand, the Right Honorable Il.
] Seldom, promier-Was resting after
the work of an exceptionally busy ses-
sion. The dainty drawing room, with
its pastel shades OF silk and brocade
and It's delicate furniture. looked sud
denly small and trashy when Mr.. Sed-
don came in, Mr.. Seldom has way OF
making things and people look small
and foolishly breakable in his presence.
II is not only his exceptional size and
massive figure that produces this eff
gect; Il Is the suggestion OF "all out
az doors" that follows his colossal
frame like a Whit OF mountain breeges
the polse of head that has no Office
bred stoop, the hang OF hand that has
never lost the outdoor readiness to
hold to grasp, 10 strike. Mr.. Seldom
is gray-haired, almost old, as men count
age by years. yet the young man who
picked a quarrel with him would prob
ably be Cooking for trouble" OF live
ly kind and would find IT, too, despite
the premier's pleasant speech and
graceful drawing room manners.
WHERE THE DEVIL, TAKES THE
H1NDMOST.
This Is the type OF man TO tame an
unbroken young colony, to ride IL with
out It's kicks and buck jumps unmoved,
and finally to drive 1t forward in the
race OF nations to a place far ahead
OF anything that less determined rid
err could have reached New Zealand's
history during the last decade stands
as proof OF Mr.. Seddon's horsemanship,
The south Is not as the north. That
east and west are different worlds was
discovered by many persons before
Rudyard Klplng But that the South
ern Cross rules yet another world un-
like In most essentials and many de-
tails, TO that half OF the globe lying
north OF the equator not many have
yet recognized
Under the Southern Cross life is com
paratively cheap. Each mans hand Is
for himself, and the devil may, and
does, take the hindmost with the most
lurld promptitude Moreover there is
space and time for every mans pc
culiarities 10 develop; the varnish of
civilization is thinner than IN the re-
gions north Of the equator, the next
door nelghbor II less OF permanent
nightmare, and all the world Is younger.
and so nearer, by half the life OF a
mighty race, TO Mother Earth.
In such a community the man who
rules Is not the scholarly scion OF some
political family that has borne it's
scores OF statesmen, but the plain and
simple tanner of men, with an extra
oonvolution or two Of brain; the typl-
cal fighting man, bred in camps; not
courts with the steel eyes of a leader
set In the rough-hewn face Of n pio-
neer; one learned more IN men than in
books, and "blooded TO the open and the
sky"
Such Is Mr. Seldom, once a saloon
keeper. hut now the "uncrowned king"
OF New Zealand, and the greatest man
today under the Southern Cross.
AMERICA Is LOOKING AHEAD"
Concerning the South Sea Islands I