Show AMONG THE TRE MAORIS tilt rest ing items of experience froin filler 11 II J spam sears by k kind i rid permission of hon joriu farr we have perused a lengthy letter writ tely lu ill may received from his son in law it J seara sears who with his wife ie is now laboring in in the cause of truth among the new now Ze after explaining the difficulties in the way of educating the laoris maoris owing wing to the false treatment they aes b have so 0 generally generali received ved from the whiles whites brother ys seara re ri proceeds to give a description of the country the method methods or f its lu goberni government nent etc as follow follows a it is the policy ofilio new zealand government to borrow large sums of money mony to expend in railways and public roads in consequence orthis of tin s taxes are high and the government is always in debt the railroads I 1 think are entirely owned by the govern Government men also the telegraph lines which arc are run to some extent con jointly in all that the government doerin does inthis this way there is a noticeable preciseness which it might be well for some of our americans to pattern after every railroad tie is sawed saw cd to the size of about five seven or eight inches and must be free from all flaws and checks the telegraph poles are all sawed and well braced all the railroad bridges and those of the tile public roads are strong and substantial and all are coated at completion with tar A person can say but little for the cars and their accommodations after once beating seating himself in one of our american pullmans Pul mans for here both the cars care and the system appear like toy by the side of those used at home being all narrow guage and in ili the second class cars there are two long seats similar to our street cars yen you pay four cents per mile for riding on them the freight cars carry f five tons the resources resource a of or the country consist principally in the raising ot or forstock stock grain and the productions of the coal mines meat bleat is 13 cheap b hero ere and there has been a great deal of money spent an in an industry for forthe the freezing for shipment t to foreign countries tho the industry was unsuccessful at first and a great deal of money lost but I 1 understand it is more moi e successful now tho the country is very uneven is much broken and in a great part unproductive still a great deal that might be cultivated yet lays idle it is well that heaven provides rain for this country as irrig irrigation atlon would bo be impossible in traveling across the country one ie is in continual danger of 0 f swamps or if it he lie evades them an and d prefers the mountain lie is at once in thick forest or ferns PO so high that progress Is made very difficult some of the scenery is is ver very pretty the tho other morning I 1 ascended a hill somewhat higher than the rest which overlooked an exten extensive sivo tract of country from where here I 1 stood I 1 could see bix lakes and ani a beautiful river winding down through thron gli the hills appearing and disappearing according as the diilio lill cut it on off from my view the climate here hero is at tilis this season very rainy in fact it is a rare thin thing 9 to see the sun it ia is raining now and anti has been all day we suffer a great deal with cold feet as our hoube u lias lai no floor on it iven even if it tle the sun is shining it is not safe rate to venture out ont without a rain coat as it can rain rain heie here anytime at 15 minutes notice and as fast as anyone could desh e brother sears is locadd at hunt flunt ley 1 il in I 1 the lh e waikato district doubt less 1 many l ny of his friends will be please to know that while his field of labor labors not far fur distant frow the scene settle if f the convulsions of nature it is not so als 1 i that there ua reason to apprehend thab thai ho lie lias lilts tufield from fa rom the outburst burst ill in ij way tic hai L lift wever ever from hie ma 1 lalion fotion would be ably to vie viea I 1 the awfully giand 81 spectacle which acon f vividly described in our recent issues |