MR. FOSTER FRASER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 8

MR. FOSTER FRASER.

.■;'; Mr.'-. , John 'Foster; leaser,': the well-known explorer, • author, and" lecturer," who is now Ltouring New. Zealand':with -the object of writ-: ; iug; a-book, does, not minco matters when talk•ing.on the/expansion .'of Britam.'and the duty oij-.Britons beyond 'the-Eeas,:as , -well- as-at 'Home. 1 In', one of his'recent addresses he! won enthusiastic •: applause ■ when .'-. he asked hie hearers, to ■ "stand-:before a '-map of the world on which! the' British. -Empire -ie : . marked-.in red.: If-jou.aro.a. Britoni'. or have the 'blood of Britons inybur veins, there will'bo aglow of s'atief action that thoKing's dominions stretch so ; wide.. It need'-not. be: the'satisfaction that comes from' acquisition and conquest—that is "the poorest kind of patriotism—but the -knowledge that whatever mistakes have been made, however many blots imay be on the. page of our national 1 history,' the extension of' the Empire really) counts '.for'good in the story of-the ;wbrld.- : And behind the.'eattsfactiou will rise ' the wonder-howiit;is that/these littio islands, jsplashed;. red,.: to the of -Europe, l.should be 'the. parents, as it. were, of. the great Continents and- slices of- Continents, splashed Yed on other parts.pfthe'.map:''; Mr..Fraser'R books'have;all'been written with the view of improving the': public .' mind regarding the characteristics, and/problems of , the lesserknown -pepples of, the world; and when, he ■writes of; the Dominion no'doubt he if ill have ■somqthjng to saythat.willibe well worth.reading, ;.,:Mr.: Foster .-Fraser .will arrive'in Wellington on. Sunday- morning, next, and will give the.;first 7 "of a,Short .series of. lectures, at- the Town Hall on Monday evening. next on tho subject of "America which has been specially Revised'.for the Australian, and New, Zealand tour, so as to , focus in one evening's entertainment the very latest impressions of vMiv Foster'Eraser's-travels in America and Canada. '••• ■■■■■:"■■::■'.■■■.■■'■ '■.■:■■■ -- -7- ''■'■■