MR HUMPHREY'S IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9365, 14 March 1896, Page 5

MR HUMPHREY'S IN AMERICA.

TO THE EDITOK OF THE PRESS. Sir, —lv your reporters brief account (a rather feeble account, by the bye) of his interview with, mc, published iv laSu Tuesday* I'kess, theru ace several inaccuracies, one or two of whicn I particularly wisn to correct. Your reporter makes it appear X had stated that all the shops in California ate opeu on iSuud&ys. What I said was that the tneatres and all tha places of amusement in Sau Francisco were in full swing on Sundays, and that •* even some of the shops were open." It is also stated that all the Americans one meets with are uncivil. This ia quite contrary to what I Btated. The great, incivility and insolence so generally met with iv the States is almost exclusively confined to tailway and other public servants of the couutry, whilst on the other hand the Americans generally are polite and show the greatest kiuduess to strangers. Our American cousins aie very sensitive on matters touching their natioual characteristics, and I should be sorry to uuueces--B&rily wound their susceptibilities by allowing these misstatements to pass uncorrected.—Yours, ie, GlliO. HuiiPHßisrs. Christchureh, March 15th.