MAX O'RELL INTERVIEWED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4651, 17 February 1894, Page 3

MAX O'RELL INTERVIEWED.

\ /Wo extra&t the foliowine; from ap / /interview with Max O'Rell recently f- /published in an English paper;—"l / think I liked New Zealand beet of all ; / lu climate is magnificent, But what I / could not understand was why in such a climate tho people should Btick to all the eld English ways, should haye their houses built just the same, should eat the Mine kind of food, and wear "tho same kiild of Clothing. 'Fof such a climatej it sSßnutdtoe, tb'ey eat fartbi/mlijih meat arid'live ,ji>o little m the open air,' |here\afe |W tlje 'opep-ajj fa/js. -.cop- ■ • jj«is js, such as you would expect, and such as would bo" so enjoyable in so jjepial.it cjimato, In aoine respects, the Jtristfalians,'!'continued Max U'flolj, as bpopntempjatiy'ely handled his cigar-, "aro more English than the Jsngli»h-in their Babbntarlamsm, for Initanoe, As you know, I have often lectured at institutes, &c„ in London and the proyincial cities on Monday afternoon or evening. But throughout my tour the only place where a Sunday lecture was.desired, or could be given, Win Johannesburg; where tho population" is l largely cosmopolitian, ; At Invarcartull, a 'town with Some 8000 people, where I gavo toy first lecture in New Zealand, 1 was taken to the top of a high tower by the Mayor, from which I could see buildings that would accomjho. (late and everyone of ihe ..-. oitiaehs appeared to own the house he Jived in.'' ■ "lexpect .the Australians will be .. anxiously looking for your book-of

courso, you'to going to write one—about lifo in John Bull's colonies ?"' •

_ "Woll, it is tho universal ohatactemtio of young countries to bo curious about the impression, it mnkes on others. in tho different towns 1 visited I used to be atopped in tho streets by people I hid never seen before, who asked mo what I thought of tlio counlty" "I found tho Maoris in Now Zealand j and tho Kaffirs in South Africa," he says," almost more interesting than the columats thomaelvof. . , '. ■ Tho Boers aro about tiro hundred years bo • hind in rnosttliinga. Would yon believe it, thoy refused to tako any stops to counteract a ploßueof locusts, because it is one of tho pligues mentioned in the Bible as being sent 'for the chastisement of tho sinful ? My own ooinion is that tho Tranßvaal will eventually bcooino an English Kopublio; the greater energy and ability of the Britisher is bound to tell in tho lone; run, but it will never again bo a colony."