Christi e Murray on Australia
(PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION 1 .) | ' London, August 27. . Mr David .Christie Murray has an article in the Contemporary Review on his impressions of the Australasian colonies. - He is of opinion that the c'ouutry-bred Australian, already presents: a new type, taller and slimmer thau, Englishmen. The climate is altering the people, and it will be impossible to preserve the European characteristics in the Northern districts. .He describes the people as addicted to ' slang of a meagre and vulgar character, and to blasphemy of a particularly scorching kiud. The | Australian youths are irreverent to the last degree. Altogether he considers the Australians one of the most prosperous, educated, rowdy, drunken, peoples in the world. The country is fillad with feverish, reckless energy, j everbody hurrying along to get rich. He eulogises the beginnings of art and " literature', the comciercial morality and exquisite scenery, which is only, awaiting an artist of the noblest genius' to commemorate its beauties.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 27, 1 September 1891, Page 4
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