TAWHIAO INTERVIEWED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4115, 29 September 1884, Page 4

TAWHIAO INTERVIEWED.

King Tawhiao has been interviewed, and objects to the results.. He publishes a royal remonstrance. ,: Dagonet," in the Referee, says : Yesterday (July 18), by the kind permission of Major Te Wheoro, I was allowed to interview tho King on his interviewer. I publish tho result of our conversation, with his Majesty's cordial per-

mission: — I: You complain of this young man who interviewed you ? He: I do. He says I came into the drawing-room where tho ladies were with my nig'hshirt on—it is not true. I hud no nightshirt on.

I (embarrassed) : Dear mo ' But, you BCC —ahem —wasn't that rather worse ? He : I do not explain myself well. I meant I was fully dressed. I: Oh, I see. Now what did this young man do ?

He: Ho was very rude. He took a handkerchief, wetted the end, and tried to mb my tattoos off. I: That was to see if they were real. He : Yes. Thou he asked me how old I •was, if I had been vaccinated, and why I ate my mother-in-law. I : But did you cat your mother-in-law ? He (with a wry face)) : What do you take me for? Eat her! Kapoi Kapute (English, not for Joe). I: How do you like London ?

Ho : Beautiful ! Ah, in my country we have nothing like your Covent Garden, your Waterloo place at midnight, your Seven Dials ; and your ladies—they are BO charming, so friendly, so polite. I: Is it true you wheel homo :i whol stall of whelks sometimes, and call out your suite to feast with you on the doorstep 'r He: No; it is a falsehood. I do not like your whelks. I tried to eat one, but it ■was so hard it broke my tooth. Te Wheoro, ho swallowed one whole, and it nearly choked him.

I: What has struck you most in this country V He : Tipcats. I: Tipcats ! He: Yes; the boys in the street they play tipcat for ever. Every day I have one in my face—sometimes in my eye. I: Ido not mean that ; but what do you think most peculiar : He: Your carts that go about to give the people drink. I: Carts !—drink : He: Your watercarts. Yesterday I was thirsty. I held my hat under the cart (ill it was full, and refreshed myself. In our country we have to go a long way when we are out of water. I: Who has found the money for this trip ? He: My expenses at present have been defrayed by the Blue Ribbon Army. 73 ut I have an offer from tho Alhambru and also the Aquarium ; Mr Barmnn also wants mo for America. I: Have you ever eaten a man ? lie: Not a whole one. I: Do you ever intend to eat another? He : Yes ; that young man who told lies of me in the paper. We shall catch him one night. In the kitchen he shall be roasted" and when he is eaten we will send his bones to the olh'ee.

I: My dear King, I congratulate you. If you once make a meal of an iutorvicwer you will be doing something to stop a ■practice which is being carried to excess.