MR SALA AND THE GOVERNOR Of SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2337, 3 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR SALA AND THE GOVERNOR Of SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Mr Sala, who has resumed his contributions to the Illustrated London News, referred lately to Mr Froude's extraordinary statement in "Oceana,", that in Adelaide nobody cared for hiav (Mr Fronde) or his three meals a day. "lapprehwid," says ■"0.A.8.," "Mr Fronde must have been writing in a jocular strain. Wherever Mr J. A. Fronde wont in 'tbo Australasian colony the deepest interest was taken in one of the most learned scholars, the most earnest thiukors, and the noblest historians of our time. If be did not go out to luncheon every day, and dine out at least three times a week during his stay in Adelaide, it must have been his own fault. My own humble experience of SoukhAnstraliau hospitality was extensive, pleasant, and, in ono instance, peculjar. I arrived in the fair city in the winter of 1885, ab the end of July, 1 had brought with me but one solitary letter of introduction, and that was from a dear friend in London to His Excellency the Governor. His Excellency and Her Ladyship were most hospitable, most I gracious, and most kind. We were asked to stay at Government House. We dined and lunched, and were asked, but did not go, to balls; and when, after a fortnight's sojourn in the delightful place, I waited upon his Excellency to. bid him a respectful farewell, the representative of Her Majesty remarked with an affable smile ' By the way, tbo letter of introduction which you drought me was from a gentleman I have not the honor to bo jr.lt is my brother, I think he must have meant.' Now had this appalling information be#n conveyed to me when I first waited on his Excellency, I should have, of course, sunk through the carpet, or proceeded to the nearest spot on the Torrens river and drowned myself. With equisite taste an-'! courtesy the mistake that had been made was never mentioned till the eve of our going away laden with a load of kindness which I never shall forget."