"ONE OF THE SIGHTS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 12 January 1915, Page 7

"ONE OF THE SIGHTS."

SEW ZEALANUKUN IX THE LORD MAYOR'S I'KOC'K.SSIOX. A TIIEM KN DDI'S I! KCF.PTIt iX. A member of the New Zealand Contingent in .England writes an interesting account to his sister in Christchurcli i f the Lord Mayor's procession and the receptions given to the New Zealandcrs in the streets of London. Some extracts are published beiow: 1 must, tell you of our visit to London this last week-end to march in the Lord Mayor's procession. One hundred of us were chosen to go up. and I was fortunate in being anion:; that number. V." had rather a bail start, as we were :t!! inoculated auainst typhoid again the night before we *ft out f<»r London, and I'helsea Barrack-, and we arrived there more or less wrecks. it aJl'ects one jn-t, like a dose ei " 'till/' I'he joke of it was iliat: everybody bailed us as Inning newly arrived after a trip of L'i.fliKl mile--. IVing far from ' s'v dear ones, and so forth, thev wanted j to treat us to evervthir.L:. The idea ol our beini; there (together with the Canadian.- and soul" of the favorite companies I was to aid recruiting, which has guile a bit stale lately, so th.e papers wore giving it out that wo were the New Zealandcrs arrived. We did nothing to destroy their illusions, and I guess we didn't half skim the cream olf their reception when thev do arrive. Anyway, we have done a thundering lot of fatigues here, for thcni, so we are about snuare. I'ATJ'.JiITL-.M AT THE ALTI^MBHA. Wo had dinner at Lyons' Cafe with a sergeant of Htrathconn's Horse, and went to a Sunday concert at the Allianibra, whore an Irish Guards' band figured largely on th» programme. It was a.ll very patriotic and warlike, of course. There is a very popular i-e. eruiting song suol everywhere inst now. It iias in it word.-:

Me shall cheer y.- n. you, ki.-s von When you man: i .i-k again. Well, it i:- a iact that or." oi th,- Tommies, hack wounded trom Alons, was in a luusic-hall when tiiis song was sung, and he went up and got his reward. Of they always get an attractive sort of girl to sing these songs. At l'o' Alhanilira I noticed that the fair sinner wa-j not taking any risks, for she substituted "love you" for "kiss yon." And even y- t I have not told y,,u :>f the great day wo had on Mondav. 1 guess none of us w ill Torget it as long as wo live. It was something to lie proud of all right, and wr were proud of it, and did all we could to ki-ep our end up. and bring honor to New Zealand. If von get- a look at the moving pictures thai Were taken of us, yon will sec that, we happened to be swinging along like the • ■Hards. The whole day we were on our feet, and it was pretty grucllini;, too; but ('very minute of it was exciting. We marched at case light throimh the centre of Loudon, \V«-.-tinin>ter, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, the" Strand, and St. Paul's, singing our particular smuts - "Sundowner" is one of them.

A .MAnKI lIAKA. fioing down the Strand we were overtaken by a 'bus with an excited Maori on it. e stal led to give him a haka, and, by Jove! he just about broke hi:, neck getting o!t (hai 'lms. al ,d into the middle of us. Alter that he marched along with us. not half-excited, I can tell you. Our liakas went down all right t\ei v w heie. Ihey were (juite a knockout in London. Wo spent about two hour> down a little side street', in Choap-,ide. waitin" and joining up v, ifii the Canadians. H \wts not befor.. w ( . l l;l) [ (.] U \ V ds ; iirouiid us. aim hundreds of heads leanling out of windows all the way along, •and arms chuckiiiL: down apples, pears, cigarettes, anything and .-v.-rvthing. i ,) < iz ''"s oi smart girls bo-icged lis for . buttons and badges. It ' three polieemt-n all their time tolling . them We Were all niarried. Then w'e took their breath awav with another haka, and the .Maori, now quite beside . himself with excitement, got up on a frnit e:i;e. and nearly got him-elf arrested for being drunk and soeiii" things. Ihe ma reh in the aI: ernoon was continuously through mas-es of wildlycheering people waving llays. Thorc we're rows of window-- lim-d with jirctty girls ---never saw so many in my life before. J-.\ el'. hero and there the route of our march someone would yell "Kia Ura." or the name of Wit Zealand town. Jinny of them had Now Zealand flags, and 1 _reeo.m,is,,| ~ir ] j' r ,, ln Dunedin. \\,. oo( -g great reception, mostly, ( think, on aeeount of our hai--. The remarks we gathered in along the route wore many and varied.

the LOUD MAV<il!'S ( i>A( If. Tl»<» ira.vt.rV i-.si.-h wa- j. spn-tacl,- in itself. it wji,. if tliat «-«-. rd ex el deserx'ed to lii■ in describe mix t liing. It xx a- ;i ] ] ; hi.l l.rcaded up, aii.l tlir coachman ' I.uik.'d its if lie liLui stepped r-nt i.f all o!,t till!,Jiailltili-. Jl,. 11 i; 1 i., i; ; | i ilt lv; ,i till lit' i'axor.-'i ii- \x!ili a big wink as xve marched [>u -~i. Jt was all wild!;.- i xeit idl-; xvhile it lasted, bill our a.-ns were like lead by the tiiiii- we Jilli.-lii-d lip at; flie bank xvhere we sfar!:'d We had ti> liiart-li back to tin- other side of Loudon ill the gloaming. ( ]i,| j ( tlir.mul, (Ik: most eon-rest ni (.arts at the double, single tile. It wa- great sport.