Mr E. Wakefield.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 20 May 1890, Page 2

Mr E. Wakefield.

-♦_. The London correspondent of the Dunedin " Star " has interviewed Mr Edward Wakefield at the St Stephen's Club:—" Mr Wakefield," he sttites, " does not proi>ose return ing to New Zealand before the end >f the year, and seems uncertain whether he will re enter public life He found Americans extraordinary; i'j;n rasit and lav ably curious about the colony, Editors w^re delighted to take ' copy ' from a " litterateur " of bis standing on Antipodean subjects, and Mr Wak^fieid now finris h^ has a large i- cennection with Yankee newspa ers than is altogether convenient. Natnraby Mr Wake.'ield niidea point of inquiry into the poj-ibiiityof the flax market in the States. He found the market for New Z -aland flax of a careful 'y dressed character praciical'y unlimited. He is >f opinion, however, and so is one of the prindptl American brokers wo crossed with him to England, tb.it before the flat is submitted to the American a^areet 'it should l>e edrensed in Lqndon ' and the straw taken off. The 4inericans have not as yet machinery for this purpose, and do uoS understand the process as the English do. Mr Waken* Id will have a series of artie'es in the new United Service Magazine (edited by Co'ouel Morris) m ' i .evolutionary Perio is in En-lish History ' This is a tavou'ite subject of his, in fact, whilst in \merica b.H lectuied theivon boforn tho ColumSia College and kindred ■nstitutfons. i.'eceutly Mr Wakefield accompanied I'rofessor Lfio Field on a visit to Queenwood College, in Hampshire, and assisted that emmn nt ornithologist in a lecture on \\in>y ess Birdß,' Mr Field opened the ball with a p -per on ' The Great \uk,' Mr Wakelield fo lowing with ' Tli<» Wingless Birds of New Zea laud.' 'I lie collection of illustrative specimens got together from provincial and Con ti Mental museums a id •-xUi'oited ou this occasion was exceedingly fine, and the collegians professed themselves equally instructed, interested, and entertained.