COLONIAL V. BRITISHER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 299, 14 December 1908, Page 4

COLONIAL V. BRITISHER

vVHKTf IS- Till-: ISKTTER TYl>i'.Y The llev. Dr. Cibh has been lcUing himself spread in tin- Wellington newspapers on the difference in type between Britisher a nd colonial. "The (pies-lion." he said to an interviewer. " is not easily answered, and perhaps it, wonhl not be judicious in answer it. What, if I thought (he Home type superior lo the colonial-; What if I said we do ourselves a great deal of injury by bragging about the spirit which is ~'n common awi,n« iisV The hue High Commissioner told me that people at Ho were inclined to smile, with a lillle pilvinjr contempt at the airs we give ourselves. We are the people, and wi-dom shall die with us. Hut speaking with all sobriety. I am inclined to thiiik Hi it ihe average man here is a better man than the Home product. Hi- is better physically; he is. I think, keener, though f question if lie is as tenacious- pnibably tin- Scot, would beat him in thai respect; In- i, -mart and adaptable; he can size „|, a situation and accommodate I himself to it heller I linn the Home man, ''hut. the torloi-e heal the hare in Hie old. fable, and it's the man il.nl can -lick lo a iliim; thai conies oil .iicces--fully in the end. .Nevertheless, the X,-,,-Zcahinder does .veil to he proud of New Zealand—.proud of the land itself. Wellington is not usually reputed as one of the beauty sp„|s of the colony, but this moraine; as I -razed from -iiipb mrd al our wonderful harbour, with its eradaml lieautilul. I felt thai I had nol looked'on a fairey scene siie-e | left it. MV do well to be proud ~( our citizens, 100. Years »».,. Knierson deliued tieEnglishman ; e n nan who of all men -I ! lirme-i i u -.is 5)|.„. 5 . xi,,. Xe-e Zcalandcr rivals tile Englishman there. I He ought to; with all his advantages he uiifrlit I, a better man for |h- I purposes of this world as well a- fr Ihe |>oinl of view of the next. and. .11 I the whole. I think he is."