Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Mas O'Rell is proving a great draw in Sydney, and it is said that he grows on ono after the first experience like opium and other things producoive of pleasant sensations. It may be almost said of him that he is a comedian rather than a lecturer, and he converses leisurely as though with some fireside friend rather than with a large audience. Of Mr O'Rell's lecture on " Sandy at Home," which occupies about an hour or so, the Daily Telegraph sa yg : — " As those who have read his book are aware he has taken "Sandy's" gauge very accurately, and he held him up and opened him out to the audience with all hia national peculiarities and virtues exposed for inspection. Sandy's very strict observance of the " Sawbath," and the commercial methods said to enter into his religion, were amusingly alluded to, yet with careful avoidance of irreverence. " His religion teaches him to trust in God - and to rely upon himself. . . . He keeps the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath, and everything ess he can get hold of. . . . He is more religious than the Englishman—that i 3, he is more churchgoing." O'Rell tells oi the Scotchmen who hold all the best positions everywhere, ona very amusing one of the Scotchmen who occupy the only comfortable posts on the Caledonian railways, and is also very funny in dealing with the circumstance that Scotland is the only country in which the Jews have never beou able to settle.