TYPICAL NEW ZEALANDER OF THE FUTURE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 808, 9 June 1903, Page 2

TYPICAL NEW ZEA LANDER OF THE FUTURE.

;o: Id hia latest contribution to ihe Matnti a Ersign, "Cyclops" deals with bir Rob rt Stout's p'oph«-cy tbat ih» typical New Zeala-der rf 'he future will ba the Sou h'ai.der. ' C>clops " «ugg**U that Bir Robert Stout* prophecy waa due to "kni.wl dge of the fact that If a person cou'd smuggle through th« callow yea s of early youth and finally stagger in»o manhood fn Soui hi and, he could nee mpltfb mott Other thing*, evm to bringing the peoples typical of all ih« o'her provincial divi»ioni of ihe colony into subjection under hrs cold red feet." " Cjcldps " accordingly 'ets his propbe ie eye lore ahead, and he discerns in the mists »f fivurity the monster which he thns cle^eribeo : - "The SoutMander of the future wi», by * process of 1 volution, be considerably lalltfr than lhu aveiage man of to-day. Thu tflfort of ftiiving to keep hu he»d iibive the \tate>-, occasioued by the bountiful rainfall of hia native habitat, will huve bro -.&h', thai ;o pass ; rnd.ptssibly, aUo, he will be found to be clothed in a tough, na.ural oilskin, al ll^d pet yard. The perpetual gales of bis countiy will have rt-mitrtd hint beardl«*>s, bat, in compensation, Nature will have elongated hia ears, providing one w«th a hook and the other with an nye, enabling him to button them over his hat during stormy wea'her, or under his chin when not otherwise required He will be of a taciurn disposition, and uniting will not be included in the repertoire of hi* facial feats. In the keeping of generations of Southlanders having to hv» iv Southland and off Sjuthlander* tht« «ill have become a lost art. He will b» a frogal liver, ptib'is'ing mos'ly on rabbits and small bird", and exporting all of his ►beep as Prime Canterbury. H* wtH ali>o be a supporter of a Liberal Governmen*, having the eye on the main chance and the other on an appointment as J.P. or inspector of ragwort. Altogether th» typical Sou'hlander of & thousand years hence will be a clammy, uncomfortable sort of ptrson 10 meet, and it is well perhaps that he thould have the country to himself." .