Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-24
MANY Wonders for lack 10 See

holiday always between Sundays. This
land. which before the British i'm.
proved 1t had not q flower with q per
fume or bird with song. now
rivals California with it's floral splen
doris. and Is paradise OF feathersd
songsters. Some 81. Patrick has been
there In the distant ages, for In the
entire memory Of man there was new
er a snake on the whole isle. nor
rabid dog. Jack now basks In an
Italian climate. amid scenery of south
France. with bits OF England. Nor
way and Switzerland added together
with the forests OF Maine. tina hot
springs Of California and the glaciers
OF British Columbia. The island Is
larger than Great Britain. and has
population 1874, 1000 much less than
that Of Philadelphia. nearly all Euro
peans.
| Auckland is the most honest town
of earth just as Port Said. when
Jack will later see. is the most wick
ed. Room doors of hotels are never
locked and guests claim that here IS
me only place on earth where 'heF
can lay an umbrella down In pub
lie place and fnd It there next day.
Only sixty policemen are needed TO
keep the city's $1,000 people In Or
der.
Land Of Tepsy Turvy.
Landing at Auckland wharf. with
six days to be spent In port. Jack
sees king fishes weighing 400 pounds;
strange oysters. in. clusters OF a dozen
or so. piled up like rocks; also heaps
OF "karurri gum" which the natives
| with long spears ind 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. ard notes as ne
! passes through the town that Auck-
land has up-to-date buildings and mod
ern stores Inning streets paved Win
/ lava from the nearby volcano.
/ He Ia now in a land Of topsy -turyy.
having It's winter while we are hav-
ing our summer and the moon when
we have our sun. Christmas comes
In midsummer Easter In autumn and
the Fourth Of July In mid-winter. Now
, In mid-August Jack finds New Zea'
| land In the mid-February OF our far
southern states. IAllies. however. are
blooming out of doors, as they do the
year around. The average winter
temperature il So degrees. the aver
| age summer only fourteen degrees
higher or &c.
A trip can now be taken TO ROto
rus. The start Is made by an ex
press train Of English compartment
coaches drawn by an American loco
motive. This train sets Jack down
In the heart OF q trout and deer conn'
! try. with hot mineral baths and swim
! ming pools. some under great over
hanging fern banks. Thence II Ia by
coach and four to ROtorua Is Carts
lad 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
I running the whole gamut Of the Eu'
ropean spas. from Vichy TO Ems. BY
! coach Jack travels on. through typical
! New Zealand mountain scenery. to
| Wellington. present capital OF the Is
land. and here he visits the British
governors residence. the houses of
parliament and the government"
building. covering two acres. this one
OF the wonders OF the wOrld-the larg,
est frame building ever erected by
man. Another world wonder which
Wellington has to offer Is the skels,
ton OF the giant Moa, seen in the ma.
tional museum.
This largest bird OF earth. reaching
twelve feet In height. has been ex'
tinct for the past 300 years. Jack
visits also the Botanical Gardens Of
100 acres, and wheI at a restaurant
he orders colonial goose" Is surpris-
ed to find it Is only shoulder Of NUT
ton.
The worlds greatest geyser. "Wai-
mangu." Is visited on another side trip
and this sight alone Is worth the visit
TO New Zealand Perhaps he at first
$50 by 800 feet, but he waits awhile
aud sees a mass Of seething mud and
stones suddenly burst from it, midst
into the sky. perhaps to a height
greater than that OF the Enel Tower
or twice that OF the Washington Mon
ument, from which monster fountain
foais OF through the sky an enor.
nous cloud Of steam.
villages Of the famed Maoris have
been passed on these trips. The orig
| In OF these people Is . mystery to
sthnologists. some Of whom believe
they came from the Persian Gulf or
South Arabia. by way Of Javs.
Among the Maori bellies Jack finds
the prettiest native women to be seen
On this entire reach Of his cruise. Up
TO three generaticns ago these people
we're cannibals. so fierce that New
Zealand was for years summed by
white men. Yet today Maoris are