ISLE OF WIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 10 February 1909, Page 61

ISLE OF WIGHT.

The Isle of Wight inhabitants are not alone in speaking of “ going to England” when they leave their own fragment of the kindom (says the “Daily Chronicle”). A patriotic Cornisliman also “ goes to England ” when he crosses the Tamar. Similarly, inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula talk of “ going to Europe ” when they leave their own comer of the Continent — in curious contrast with the people of our own island. IVe regard ourselves ns both of and in “ Europe,” and accordingly it is only “the continent ” that we visit. The record in the splendid isolation line is probably held by that minister of the Cumbraes, in the Clyde, who prayed for a blessing upon “ the inhabitants of Great and Little < umbrae and the adjacent islands of Groat Britain and Ireland.”