An American Tribute.

Mr. George M. Cornwall, a visiting American, who is editor and publisher of “The Timberman,” in Portland, Oregon, has nothing but praise for the New Zealand Railways. “I certainly had never expected to find such fast and up-to-date trains in New Zealand,” he said to a Christchurch “Sun” reporter. “I have just returned by the express from Dunedin, and I think its speed compares more than favourably with that of our own expresses. Of course you have no such luxurious fittings as we have, but that is hardly to be expected in a young, undeveloped country. I was agreeably surprised to find my seat so comfortable.”

The “Philadelphia Inquirer” concludes that, in America, the chief end of man seems to be at a railroad crossing.