PEN PICTURE OF DE WITTE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 206, 29 August 1905, Page 5

PEN PICTURE OF DE WITTE.

(By Mail.) NEW YOP_K, August 11. An account of the arrival of the Rus- | sian plenipotentiaries says: As M. de Witte stood and talked to ! the reporters the impression got by , everybody was the bigness of the man, j big head, big body, and. to judge from his constant smile, big heart. He was I dressed in a suit of light gray, and wore j a Panama hat with a broad brim, and j boots of fine Russian leather, that re-ich- | -i to hi- kn. c- under his trousers legs. jHe wore light brown gloves constant! \ and carrie.: a cane. Personally he istriking and commands instant a'teni tion, and he looks little like a Ru-sian. He is a man of heroic proportion-, brine more 'en -i-c feet t"11 nnd of heavy ' build. With his cjuiet ditmitv is a man ncr which seems almost like settled mcl- ' ancholy. This impression is heightened Iby hi- eye's, which are particularly soft , and kindly nn.l sad. A spars?, grizzled beard covers his far-e. and his hair if i gray and quite thin behind. I