. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . England, New Zealand has been AUSTEALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2C3 [1895-1902 ] properly regarded as the future Britain of the southern hemisphere. Theprogress which the colony has made has both encouraged and apparentlyjustified the prediction. Yet there are few subjects on which ordinarypeople betray greater ignorance than on the position of New Zealand. SiiCharles Dilke* has pointed out that, though the future of the Pacif
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . England, New Zealand has been AUSTEALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2C3 [1895-1902 ] properly regarded as the future Britain of the southern hemisphere. Theprogress which the colony has made has both encouraged and apparentlyjustified the prediction. Yet there are few subjects on which ordinarypeople betray greater ignorance than on the position of New Zealand. SiiCharles Dilke* has pointed out that, though the future of the Pacific shoresis inevitably brilliant, it is not New Zealand, the centre of the water hemis-phere, which will occupy the position that England has taken in the Atlantic,but some country such as Japan or Vancouver, jutting out into the ocean fromAsia or America, as England juts out from Europe. New Zealand, sepa-rated from Australia by more than a thousand miles of stormy ocean, cannever prove to Australia what England has proved to Europe. Her ownadvantages of soil and climate may raise her to greatness. She will not riseto greatness as the emporium of Australian trade, i. Light House on the Coast of New South Wales The Maoris The Maoris are one of the most important families of the brown Polynesianstock, being those who have developed its peculiar mental and physicalcharacteristics to the highestdegree. This is due in partto their having to maintainthemselves in a far less fa-vourable climate than theirfellows of the tropical became skilfid huntersand fishers, and good agri-culturists; and the amountof skill and energy necessi-tated in these pursuits inbuilding houses and canoes,in making clothing, and informing the various weapons and implements which they required from stone, wood, or shell, furnishedthe needful stimulus for an active and healthy existence. War, too, as amongall savage tribes, occupied them greatly, and the construction of forts anddefences was added
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