TOO MUCH.

Waikato Independent, Volume VII, Issue 463, 21 January 1908, Page 5

TOO MUCH.

Some New Zealanders returning to the " land of the blest" encountered quite recently an Anglo-Indian and a shock. Hearing the name " New Zealand," the 'person from the land of chutney became vaguely interested. The words seemed somehow familiar. "New Zealand," she repeated pensively ; " I was nearly going there. "But why not?" chorused the others. "Oh," languidly, "it's rather -rough over there, isn't it? The hotel accommodation in those outlandish places would be rather trying after India, you know, so I'm getting off at Hobart ?" During an awful silence people were busy remembering tales of archaic fowls massacred and curried on the spur of the moment for the delectation of the traveller at the unspeakable Dak bungalow ; of weird messes served in steaming refreshment rooms by turbanned " savages," of endless nights of punkahs, prickly heat, and other horrors, with the off-chance of meeting a cobra in the bathroom next morning. And New Zealand "rather trying " to one accustomed to all this ! It was too much. They could only go on deck and gasp and wonder who it was that said New Zealand was overadvertised.