John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . MILFORD SOUND, NEW ZEALAND—THE MITRE PEAK. capped with eternal snow, gorges, cascades; and theBush, such as one only sees it in New Zealand, of a ra-diant green freshness, an apparently impenetrable massof ferns and lovely plants. I had never seen anything so wild and picturesque,so entirely grandiose. I would have liked to be alonefor an hour with this unique scenery. TOHN BULL & CO. 221 George Sound, a few miles farther south, is almost asbeautiful as Milford Sound. I was interested to
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . MILFORD SOUND, NEW ZEALAND—THE MITRE PEAK. capped with eternal snow, gorges, cascades; and theBush, such as one only sees it in New Zealand, of a ra-diant green freshness, an apparently impenetrable massof ferns and lovely plants. I had never seen anything so wild and picturesque,so entirely grandiose. I would have liked to be alonefor an hour with this unique scenery. TOHN BULL & CO. 221 George Sound, a few miles farther south, is almost asbeautiful as Milford Sound. I was interested to hear that if one could draw a linethrough the centre of the earth to the surface of theglobe on the other side, it would come out a few leaguesfrom Paris. Thus it is impossible, while on earth, for aParisian to be farther from his beloved city than inGeorge New Zealand possesses four important towns of fromthirty-five to sixty thousand inhabitants—Dunedin,Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. It will notbe long before the energetic population of Invercargillattains one of these figures. The lucky inhabitants of this beautiful country haveevery blessing that can help them towards success—a 222 JOHN BULL & CO. perfect climate, a fertile soil, no wild animals, no snakes, and plenty of Scots. Dunedin, capital of the province of Otago, is as Scotch as Edinburgh,* and more Scotch than Glasgow ; so Scotch that the Chinese in Dunedin, in order to have any chance ofearning theirlivelihood, areobliged to callthemselves, notLee-Wang orChee-Wang, butMacWang. Christchurch,on the contrary,is an extremelyEnglish town, anAnglican founda-tion with a choicesociety. It is not,; like Dunedin, a .* , ^ .^L. A. U centre of com- mercial activity:it is the rendez-vous of colonialaristocracy, theMayfair of , at the south of the No
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