The “Tramp” Abroad.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 336, 10 August 1889, Page 2

The “Tramp” Abroad.

The well known writer •' A Tramp " left Gisborne very bravely last week, to tour along the East Coast, and on to Auckland. Mr Walker, the mailman, informs us that hs met Mr Tramp at Waipiro, and he then appeared to have had more of our roads than was enough for him. He wanted to know if he could ship his horse at that place, and flee from a land so rough. But he has not yet got to the wont of his miseries, and he will have the romance l-.uocked out of him before he gets to a more settled country. It will be no surprise to us if that admirable journal the N.Z. Herald has a vacancy on its staff before the end of the month. The verdict will probably be “a victim of circumstances." ’ The Tramp thus gives his opinion of Gisborne:—l visited this place a little over two years ego, and christened it Gay Gisborne. Glum Gisborne would now bo • more appropriate appellation. Business people pull very long faces, and say thing* is dull. In the town things are certainly dull. The nonsuoceu hitherto attending oil springs enterprises and the impending failure of the harbor works, tend to create ■ feeling of depression ; but there is no cause for despondency while the improved prospects of the country continue, and the settlement of the land extends. With it* rich soils, energetically and systematically cultivated, aud a few more good seaeons, Poverty Bay will pull through its difficulties, and in spite of the heavy load of bank interest it has to bear, and the incubus of its native titles, reach an era of long continued prosperity. One hopeful sign C the dispersion—by starvation—of th* lupine horde who for years have lived on the flesh, blood, a ones, of Europeans and natives alike, n rue is the prettiest and most respects ’ ' oking town I know of in the island.