Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
HE GREAT BRONZE BUDDHA

equator is crossed The night before this
event Jack says farewell to the last star
of the big dipper as II drops below the
northern horizon. and the next nlsht he
sees the southern cross hanging above the
bow
Auckland "Corinth of the SOUTH is
reached August o. and as he approaches
this former capital OF New Zealand he
sees it's houses rise one above another
upon sides of many hills the whole with
background of slumberinE volcanoes
Here. upon what was once the most desc
late, most mysterious cannibal land OF the
hemisphere, has been built royal colony
that is more democratic than any repub-
lie of earth-a social democracy where
women vote, where the railroads are
owned by the government. and where all
classes work only forty-eignt hours
week with a half holiday always be-
tween Sundays. This land. which before
the British improved ii had not flower
with a perfume or a bird with song
now rivals California with its floral splen-
doris and Is paradise Of feathered
songsters Some St Patrick has been
there in the distant ages. for in the en-
tire memory of man there was never
snake on the whole isle. nor rabid dog.
Jack now basks in ar Italian climate.
amid scenery of south France. with bits
of England. Norway and Switzerland
added. together with the forests of
Maine the hot springs of California and
the glaciers of British Columbia. The
island is larger than Great Britain, and
mas a population (s74.ofn much less than
that of Philadelphia. nearly all Euro
peans.
Auckland is the most honest town of
earth just as Port Said. which Jack will
later see, is the most wicked. Room
doors of hotels are never locked and
guests claim that here is the only place on
earth where they can lay umbrella
down in a public place and find it there
next day. Only sixty policemen are need
ed to keep the ctys 5000 people in
order
Land of Topsy Turvy.
Landing at Auckland wharf with six
days to be spent in port Jack sees king
fishes weighing 900 pounds: strange oys-
ters in clusters of dozen or So piled up
like rocks. also heaps of "kaurri gum,
which the natives with long spears find
beneath the soil of the fire-devastated
kaurri forests. He visits the museum.
picture gallery and the Albert Park, with
its wealth of tropical trees. and notes as
he passes through the town that Auck-
land has up-to-date buildings and mod
ern stores lining streets paved with lava
from the nearby volcano.
He is now In land of topsy-turvy
having its winter while We are having
our summer and the moon when We have
our sun. Christmas comes in midsum-
llcF, Easter III tIie Oui III VI
July in midWinter. Now in mid August
Jack finds New Zealand in the mid-Feb-
ruary of our far southern states. Lilies
however. a-e blooming out of doors. as
they do the year around. The average
winter temperature is - degrees. the
average summer only fourteen degrees
higher. or GO,
4 trip can now be taken to Rotorua
The start is made by an express train of
English compartment coaches drawn by
an American locomotive. his train sets
Jack down in the heart of trout and
deer country. with hot mineral baths and
swimming pools. some under great over
hanging fern banks. Thence it is by
coach and four to Rotorua itself through
groves of fern trees with stems like
telegraph poles, Rotorua is Carlsbad
with the wonders of Yellowstone thrown
in Here would have been the very
place for Fighting Bob Evans to have
nursed his rheumatism. for there are
twenty-one mineral springs running the
whole gamut of the European spas.
from Nichy to Ems. BY coach Jack
travels on. through typical New Zealand
mountain scenery. to Wellington pres
ent capital of the island. and here he
visits the British governors residence,
the houses Of parliament and the GOV
eminent building. covering two acres,
this one of the wonders of the world
the largest frame building ever erected
nv man Another world wonder which
Wellington has to offer is the skeletons
OF the giant Moa, seen in the national
museum.
This largest bird of earth. reaching
twelve feet in height. has been extinct
for the past 300 years. Jack visits also