COLONIAL "CADS."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2365, 5 August 1886, Page 2

COLONIAL "CADS."

. the London correspondent of the New. Zealaud' Herald gives an exeoeditigly unpleasantdescription.of.ihe behaviour of. some of. the colohfslj'it present is England. "Aftorreferarig'io the hospitable way in which'. !thelco)onial visitors are treated in' England,; the correspondent says:'-" Very curious stories are current as to the .behaviour of some of bur colonial kinsmen at th'ebaronial halb which have been.thrown open for their inspection.- - For -, obvious reasons it would not be prudenttojxieiition individual names, or to indicate colonies any nearer than to exempt Ne.w.; Zelaand and New Zealande'rsfromsuspipion. Onestory is amusing. Lord' Charlesjferesfar<( who, like the rest of our travewig nobility and aristocracy, .i« .doing the polite to visitors to the colonies., in which he himself has been received with hospitality, incited a colonial visitor down to his house in the country frpm..'.SaturdsjiJill Monday . The invitation ('was acce/tod with alacrity, and our colonial friend took his luggage down wrapped up in a chock pocket-handkerchief. A week on Saturday Sir Thos and Lady Brass jy, of Sunbeam fame, .entertained' a party of 150 eolonial visitors at ■Nornianhurat Castle, near Battle,-in Sussex, invitations are given and accepted''through the instrumentality of the Reception Committee, who are supposedto' be responsiblefor the character of'the guests who enjoy the hospitality thus accorded them. In this instance the Reception Committee seem to have sent down .to 'llformanhurst Castle what commercial men would term rathor a " bad lot" of colonials, for many of them conducted themselves in a very queer fashion. To begin with, they got decidedly hilarious at Sir . Thomas Braseey's expenra, and perhaps this fact would be the most charitable way of accounting for the jflccentrieities in which they subsequentlftdulged. Sir Thomas Brasaey oersohallycondueted them through the picture galleries and curiosity-rooms for which Normanhurst Castle is famous, and be must have been somewhat annoyed to fiud jW i the majority of his pests regi&jii bis treasures from the pecuniary ratlfr than the sesthetic point of view. Awkward inquiries were put to him as to what this cost, and what was the value of the other, which must have taxed his ingenuity to evade as well as his politeness to listen to. After going through'the house the visitors strolled about the ..gardens whUs lunoheon was being prepared for them. The sea-air had sh'arpetied-tneirappotitos, and luncheon was not got. ready quickly enough. Some of them, therefore, adopted a humorous though v.ulfar method af mtunatiu| their -impatience. A ladder happened to be standing in the garden. It was roared up against .the wal l , and & number of the less well-bred colonial guests took if, in turns to 6l'imb up, peer into the windows of the rooms whew lunch was being I'aid, and encourage tho footmen who were spreading the tables to more active exertions. "After luncheon, worse followed, One gentleman, a membor of & learned profession, tod of t colonial legislature, was so cajflpl beside himself with Sir Thomas' hospitality that he danced a jig in his boots on that hon. baronet's billiard table.; -The bettor mannered colonial ladies and gentlemen who were present-we're so shocked at the want of decorum betrayed by thbir fellow colonials that they.have sinceyjnjg. no secret of their intention, never ysa to be present at .these somi-publio xmptions'anrahgedispeciailyfor the benefit of colonial visitoi*. .: