Mark Twain on New Zealand.
Mark Twain was interviewed by a representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph as to his tour through New Zealand. But he declined to be drawn. He hadn't formed any opinion about the colony in general except that it had a grand climate. He saw mostly the edges of the country-cursory glance from the car window aa they dashed by. As to the people, hadn't noticed that they were in any way different from the people of the other colonies. Even if he had any impression as to the politics, he reckoned they were likely to be erroneous ones ; and he showed a sensible objection to people "just hurrying through a place and then venturing an opinion on the nature of the country and the characteristics of the people, of which they just know nothing." Mark shows better 1 judgement in this matter than many people who have seen less of New Zealand than did he. and yet have triedf" to sum up a judgment of half-a-million people in an epigram.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 154, 31 December 1895, Page 3
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175Mark Twain on New Zealand. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 154, 31 December 1895, Page 3
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