A Hindu's Impressions.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 5

A Hindu's Impressions.

In common with most natives, he thought all Englishmen a trifle mad. Had he not often seen them rushing about cricket- fields to pick up balls, when there were any number of servants sitting about who might have done it for them? Did they not jump up from their dinner and get on horaes, and ride away like mad, if they heard there was something to shoot, and leave their dinners to get cold, and perhaps not come back all night ? Instead of eating their meals at home, did they not have their food carried up to the tops of mountains and down to the bottoms of valleys, and eat " idiots' dinners " there, as the natives call picnics '! Were they not in the habit of dressing up in ridiculous clothes, and dancing at "idiots' dances" — for such the Hindoos call a fancy dress ball. Would any sane person go riding after pigs with spears, breaking their collar-bone and getting horses killed, when they might easily shoot the pigs if they liked ? Take his present master at the prepent moment. Here was he, in an excellent position under Government, and tiffin waiting for him, flying like a maniac along the river-bank. Thus moralising on the unaccountable eccentricities of our active race, the old servant trudged along, perspiring and disgusted, in the track of his acrobatic'master. —"Chasing a Fortune." By Phil Robinson.

There have been further revelations of kidnapping and cruelty in the Queensland labour traffic, and the Government have determined on returning the live cargo brought by cix vessels*