New Zealand

A long time ago, that is to say, in the twilight of Maori tradition, the chief Ngatoro and his wife, attended by a slave, landed on the shores of the Bay of Plenty. Thence they...

In one way the south-western is the most enjoyable division of picturesque New Zealand. There is little here to regret or fear for. Unlike the beauty of the northern forests, he...

In one of the rambling myths of the Maori we are told how the hero Rata, wishing to build a canoe, went into the forest and felled a tree. In the old days of stone axes, tree-fe...

The New Zealand mainland--if the word may be used for anything so slender and fragmentary--is long as well as slight. Nearly eleven hundred miles divide the south end of Stewart...

The poet who wrote the hexameter quoted on the title-page meant it to be the first line of a Latin epic. The epic was not written--in Latin at any rate,--and the poet’s change o...

Sport in the islands resembles their climate and scenery. To name the distinguishing feature I have once more to employ the well-worn word, variety. Even if we limit the term to...

When all is said, however, it is not the cities which interest most the ordinary visitors to New Zealand. They may have a charm which it is no exaggeration to call loveliness, a...