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never witnessed the poverty and squalor such as existed in 
the English cities. A person ‘‘ swagging’’ from one place to 
another, would sometimes knock at a door for food, which was 
never refused. ‘The Colonists were a hospitable people. 
New Zealand was the youngest Colony, yet one of the oldest 
countries. 
Geologically it presents all tha various forms with which 
geologists are acquainted. ‘There were from thirty to forty 
extinct voleanoes. It is on one of the lines of volcanic action, 
running N. by N. to that country of Japan where such 
uususpected but terrible forces had so recently made themselves 
felt. His Province of Canterbury was settled in 1850—it was 
intended to be a Church of England settlement, with the various 
social conditions prevalent in England, But Canterbury, which 
began with these conservative ideas, had become one of the most 
democratic of the provinces. 
Speaking of the Maories, he said they had no idols but they 
believed in spirits—the spirits of good and evil—but they never 
embodied them in idols. They had schools for the training of 
priests, aud there were among them many professionally qualified 
doctors ; and the sanitary conditions of life among the Maories 
were gradually improving. He showed a large number of views 
of the district of Mount Cook, 12,349 feet high, and the three 
great glaciers—the Meuller, the Hooker, and the Great Tasman 
glacier. The snow line was 2,000 to 3,000 feet lower than in 
Switzerland and the glaciers greater. Many of the slides 
represented the animal, bird life, and vegetation scenes, as well 
as the voleanoes and geysers of the Colony. The Colonists had 
a true love for the flag, as was shown at the time of the late 
Boer War. 

