A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . ^station house is well built and equipped with fine rainsheds. The roads are gravel or stone ballasted, and theirpassenger fares are much less than ours, notwith-standing the fact that the roads run through hilly andmountainous country and are more expensive than theyare usually in the United States. We did not learn whatthe freight rates were, but the country is sparsely settled,and if they earn now three and a half per cent, it wouldappear that when the country is well settled up theearnings will be much greater, or the rates will have to 63 .. be redu
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . ^station house is well built and equipped with fine rainsheds. The roads are gravel or stone ballasted, and theirpassenger fares are much less than ours, notwith-standing the fact that the roads run through hilly andmountainous country and are more expensive than theyare usually in the United States. We did not learn whatthe freight rates were, but the country is sparsely settled,and if they earn now three and a half per cent, it wouldappear that when the country is well settled up theearnings will be much greater, or the rates will have to 63 .. be reduced below their present low rates. The cost of atelegraph message between any two points in New Zealandis twelve and a half cents in our money. This is not morethan one-third our rates. The fares on tram cars, as theyare called here, are all less than our street car fares. Theirfine gravelled and graded Government wagon roadsare free. Their population at present is less than one millionpeople in all, and the area of the two large Islands, calledthe North and South Island, is about twelve hundred mileslong by six hundred miles wide, only about one-half ofwhich is valuable as farm or grazing land, the balancebeing rough and mountainous. The native trees and hedges are evergreen and do notshed their leaves at any season; this gives the country alook of perpetual spring or summer. There are sometrees imported from England or America which shedtheir leaves here the same as they do in their native Eucalyptus trees grow their leaves edgewise, but allother trees grow their lea
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