A MAN IN A HUBBY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2167, 4 June 1914, Page 8

A MAN IN A HUBBY

SJfl lAN HAStLXQfN : "FEIENDS IN THE HOtiSE" "I'm in-the middle of a SlrucgJc for lift', almost. J. (ton't hvnv how I'm to get through it aIL" I'hus General Sir Jan Hamilton yesterday when -asked for an jntoryiow Ijy a JDoatrsios reporter. Kew Zualsmri peopi-o .haro seen evidences of Sir lan Hamilton's energy. I'hoy have seen him sie]> out of a niotw-car aud without an iiistant's delay stride off at- a Wisli walk to inspect a fwrade of troops. The itiSiKctiou 0%-0r,.. he leaves tiie parade ground at tho same rapid pace. Tho most courteous ;i«d aiffiulc of iiion, his courtesies are ahva,vs of vlie sort that can be got over in a -minimum of time. Sir lan Han-niton is t-iwlny iinishiug. up in tiie strenuous fashion to which lio referred, :i strcnuens six weeks in New Xeiilaaid. n. great part of it spent ij» military camps, in tistins. mid straiabeots. Tho rest lie 'has divided among. official and otter functions, at whieii his attendance was practically compulsory, aud tho collection of data for his report, which -must mow be. corapletec?. Ho has had no kisvire. (

Several men have written books about, ns an far kss ncquaiirta-nca tiian Sir Iμ Hannlto-n has hael, but when invited to say semetiimg of what he ihoiight of New Zealand and New >feilamiers lie was very charj of fxvesinK ally epmio-fts. "Oh. deisr no, thjit's nob at (til in my |Ujb. What I niißlit say could "not po-sB-ibij be- -of tti'c slightost interest," he said. Ho was ns-s-ured that wo might be very much interested in licaritit; what he thought of us, and be committed.liiiftscl-f to s:sy a | sentence -or two. ■

"Your country," ho said, "bcciiis to me litce Scotland with a finer «lirnato. Ymt have s splendid climate, with just suffieicMt of the santheri* blister olciwait to tflogben tlie nnitona} fibre, t adiniro the physiqire and spirit of ysittr people; They aro fiitl of go and so' mi. Tour lovely giris I. have -had ratter too small opportunities of scoing, and I rn.t-iitioii this beoajusp y<nn can't profcoftd to know .■t-nytiitaa aiioiit a peoples uutil you ici-UHv. ilm better half ' d them."

Have you had ntty sport her*? "1 am yery fdsnl β-f epftrfc of all ishrfs, but I have friemls in the Housa of Oothbkjms- ?.t Hotne who watch my progress bo ftarrosdy that to catcli a trout >f)f suck a size that somctlmift might bo put .in the papers about it ffo«id lend to a question in the Httilso of OoijsmaiiSj ■ wiiiclj. as every ewisiblo wan knows, /..means professio.tWl ttijn. Therefore, since I liavo held'this appiii.ntn.!.erit t nearly four years, I bflvo practically bad Ho recreation tf.luiisoever in the vrtvy -of sport. That t have liad to deny myself.' Only after efSco lmurs 1 o'ccflßimiaHy twirl tsi the ma*y t-volutSons of the walte.

"N-overtliclcss, New |ealan.c] ttatel* arc so absolutely nbonntlins in fish that on jiist one occasion I did let n line inte the water far tljrca-nuarfers of a mimite and withdrew it with a fottrpnunct trwit «t«i.vcrii!g at the end of it. But. I bog once more roost o.iirncrtly to state thfrt no appreciable official time w»s wasted by this jwrfofinancc." Yen liiive Wn Hiilncky'in meet-ins such tad weather duriifg yomr stay here. "I don't ornmt it- bad weather. It is a peculiar thing' that iii *ivery single cannt.ry I haw stniek, which means, spciiltinp brosidly, every country in ttie World, I find wathn 1 timt is in tte olsinioH of ttifi mhaWtatiis ciuito extraordinarily and unprerodente-fHy bsd. I almost invariably find it about- 150 per cent, tietta'j wherever it way be., than onf own British climate." '"There, I've pi veil yon some wmsoftsG," said Sir Taw Ha-railtoh at tho ■end of the talk, which bftd pcciifiied perhaps four minutes. Then lio mslie-il away, almost rti lifting in his baste, to engaac himself m tho "siruKsfr," to use Tjis own. wwd.