ROUGH ON NEW ZEALAND.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1314, 9 June 1883, Page 3

ROUGH ON NEW ZEALAND.

Writing to the New Zealand ** Herald,” Mr. F. Maccabe, the well-known humorist, gives his impressions of New Zealand. We make the following extracts “I am not quite sure that I nave made up my mind finally about New Zealand, but I have some impressions which perhaps I may modify, or intensify, on reflection ; but such as they are, I give you, well knowing that whether I am mildly right or strongly wrong, there will be plenty of your people to condemn them. . . I have been in New Zealand since November, and I have not seen anything to justify me in saying that it has a good climate. Of course, all depends on what you consider a ‘ good climate.’ If constancy in cold, in wet, in fog, and in steady sunshine is good climate, then England has a good climate ; but if a mixture of winter and summer in a haphazard way—if an hour of warmth, and an hour of cold, varied by wind and wet in the course of nearly every day, is good climate, then New Zealand has a very good climate. My impression of New Zealand is, that it is a very splendid country, possessing many disadvantages, and that for delicate people it is especially calculated to end their troubles, but it is a very fine country for the survivors.”