"As a rule, the manufacturing plants are fairly well equipped--the machinery for the meat and dairy works being especially up to date. The wages of the 41,000 persons employed are, high. Nearly £8,000,000 are invested in plant, and the annual output amounts to £17,000,000. Certainly these facts speak strongly for the enterprise of so new a people. "But, Zelania, 'twas not thy 'riches' nor thy trade, 'Twas not thy fields, thy fruits, thy wool that made Thee loved of gods and men, nor gold; nor stately domes. 'Twas 'justice,' inscribed on the portals of thy homes. For thou first learned that men and women must be great, Else folly only boasts the grandeur of a State." _SCENE VIII.--Act IV._ THE MORAL SIDE. Relating to the moral side of Zelania's progress, the notes were very full, but the story will be briefly and chiefly told in the less chaste style of Marmaduke:-- As a rule, the people of Zelania, if the great discoverer is correct, enjoy excellent health--or should enjoy it--though we rarely "enjoy" anything that is very common. Of course, Zelania has not yet evolved a type, though she has begun her task, for while the Zelanians are of excellent stock, the "born Zelanian" is said to be superior, both in physical fibre and mental perception, to the average person of the Motherland. Nature, Mr. Oseba thinks, will preserve the "sorrel hair," the white skin, the florid complexion, the fine shoulders and the firm "understanding." The Zelanians are loyal to the Motherland. They speak of Britain as "Home," and, as a compliment to her, the color with which she paints her dependencies is conspicuously present in the cheeks of Zelanian ladies. Unless Zelania dilutes her blood by hurried accessions to her population, she will, in a few generations, furnish the finest type of mental and physical man and womanhood that ever kicked a football, or "did the block," on the surface of Oliffa. [Illustration: _Maori Wharepuni._] In the care of the unfortunate, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, and the lunatics, Zelania is already on the "fortunate" side, as Mr. Oseba abundantly testifies. Oseba says:-- "As an evidence of the satisfaction of the people of Zelania with their present condition, it is only necessary to remark the low death rate among the people. This for the last eleven years has averaged less than ten persons per thousand. For the same period, the rates in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, were about sixteen per thousand; in the United Kingdom, over eighteen per thousand; in Germany and France, about twenty-two per thousand; in Italy, about twenty-five; and in Austria, over twenty-seven per thousand. Then it appears that of all people the Zelanians are best satisfied with their present situation.--Mayhap, some tarry even a little too long. "While these people are all earnest, and want to go to heaven--afterwhile--they seem to be in no hurry about starting, and have little desire for risking climatic changes.