NEW ZEALAND IMPRESSIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 249, 9 April 1910, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND IMPRESSIONS.

A Maori chief, "Tuahine Rangiuia, who has spent some time in England, was telling a few days sinee his impressions of that country. The hugeness, the tremendousness, and the loneliness of London struck him very forcibly. "When I first came to London" he said, "I felt lonely—so very lonely—lost, that is the better word. Then the streets seemed too narrow to bear the immense traffic. I felt I was never safe; that the houses were coming on top of me, and that the omnibuses would run over me." He went to his first reception at the Duchess of Buckingham's. "I was quite taken aback by the splendour of the function and the beautiful jewels worn by the ladies." I doubt if Rangiuia would choose, were it not for his love of music, to remain in exile from his own writes. "Gne Wanderpy Returned," in the London primitive races who visit London for the first time are often enough far from wholly charmed with our life. When, some years ago, a party of Matabele warriors came nothing could convince them that there was not in London a great host of folk who lived underground. "We want to see your underground people," they said. When told that we had no underground dwellers, they shook their head 3. "We see the holes coming out of the ground," they said, pointing to the Tube entrances and the subways. "We see the people pouring down into them and coming out from them, yet you Hay you have no underground city. Why will you not let us see it?" "I had never dreamed there were so many people in all the earth," said a mid-African visitor ok ene occasion to mg, "y&u darken the face of t'ho sky, you shut out the sun, and the cattle die in your presence. B.ut I want to go home where sun shines." And he erect and stretched out his hands, oddly enough, just in the direction where his country lay! "I want to go home," he ¥o' peated. "Home!"