MAX O'RELL ON AUSTRALIA.
A SEVERE CRITIC.
Lokdon, September 19. Max O'Rell, in his book on Australia' states that Great Britain acquired the colonies at the cost of a little blood, but a good deal of whisky. In colonial society, he says, there ia nothing original, and the people are content) to copy all the shams, follies and1 impostures of British venality and adoration of the golden calf. Hypocrisy and cant are more noticeable in tho colonies than in England, and the Australian working man he considers lazy, fond of drink, and a spendthrift), thinking only of pleasures and taking no interest in the development of the country. His labour is mercenary, enormous wages are earned, and these are eponb in frivolity. The writer believes the colonies are much too jealous of one another to care for federation. Colonials, he adds, are very enterprising, and hava all the qualities and foibles of the English, and he concludes by stating that if isolation has intensified some of their faults, it has also accentuated their virtues.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 225, 20 September 1894, Page 5
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