Not long since Mr Rudyard Kipling was requested by the New York World to Write 1,000 words for 1,000 dollars on the text : » Wby America Could Not Conquer Kngland. Mr Kipling replied : " Your suggestion that I Bhould write 1000' words for 1000 ■ dollars on the text ' Why America Could Not Conquer EDgleind,' has been laid before me. It is iajposßible that I Bhould accept the ]ifoiawasioa, as it would involve discussing the armed strength of the Empire — a queation on winch no ' British subject has any
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7651, 9 June 1896, Page 3
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