![]() Blue sky and deep blue water and Wellington itself nestling on the side of the mountain.” - Agatha Christie Great mountains all round coming down to the water’s edge – the far-off ones with snow on them. “We were in Wellington on a perfect day something which, I gathered from its inhabitants, seldom happened … I have never seen anything in my life as beautiful as Wellington harbour. You look out to sea and then turn around … and everybody’s rubbish is dumped on the sand.” Quote by Agatha Christie about the beach at Hokitika – which has, she said, “the most lovely view of the Southern Alps and Mt Cook in the distance – really beautiful”. Your numerous gentlemen wearing long-faced hats, kid gloves and other fashionable attire … You bear away the palm of supremacy at the metropolis for leeches, drones and parasites, feeding on the public revenue.” - The Evening Post quotes a visitor, 1870. “Wellington remains in the memory as imperial only in the manner of artificial dressiness in everything. “We anchored opposite the town, or rather the straggling village of Auckland, which at first sight has by no means a prepossessing appearance an effect that is unluckily confirmed on a closer inspection.” - W Tyrone Power, soldier, 1846. “At Invercargill, I felt exactly as I might have felt on getting out of a railway in some small English town, and by the time I had reached the inn, and gone through the customary battle as to bedrooms, a tub of cold water, and supper, all the feeling of mystery was gone.” - English novelist Anthony Trollope, 1873. Neither is the country itself attractive.” - Naturalist Charles Darwin, December 1835. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity which is found at Tahiti and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society. “I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. “We were all full of hope and anxiety to see what had been represented to us as a sort of earthly paradise … I was doomed to witness those very beings who were cheering and shouting as they left the land of their nativity, cast – as it were – upon a barren, dreary and inhospitable shore.” - New settler Alexander Marjoribanks, Port Nicholson, 1840. ![]() “When that first ship came to Whitianga I was afraid of the goblins in her and would not go near the ship till some of our warriors had been on board … the supreme leader talked to us boys … his appearance was noble, and hence we children liked him and he gave a nail to me.” - Te Horeta aka Te Taniwha, account of meeting James Cook in 1769.
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