A "GRAPHIC" SKETCH.
In a late number of the Graphic, is a sketch entitled, "A Ride from Tauranga to Rotoraabana," intondod for tho edification of English readers, and writ Leu by one who signs himself G.S.M. The write!*, whoso acquaintance with Now Zealand is apparently limited, is explauatory as well as descriptive. For instance, he informs us tho progress he made was much impeded by a kind of creeper called " souplcjack," and that he was everywhere saluted with the words "Tob-Arknhi," which he believes to mean good-day. Ho is not at all impressed with Maoris as business men, though he admits thoy are a fine, though lazy race, and sa* she " would rather do business with a Jew and a Scotchman rolled into one than a Maori." He sojourned on his travels for ouo night at Ohinetmitu, and there was taken into a " warre," which is "the town pah of the natives." However, he came away fully impressed with tho magnificence of the whilo and piok terraces- at Rotoinahami, and tho wonders o f the geysers, and is fully persuaded thi\t some really romarkable cures in rheumatism and sciatica havebeeu effected by the waters there.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 2
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195A "GRAPHIC" SKETCH. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 2
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