THE ROYAL PARTY'S VIEW OF THE COLONISTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 28 May 1901, Page 6

THE ROYAL PARTY'S VIEW OF THE COLONISTS.

An officer of the Royal escort has contributed to the Melbourne Argus an article which serves to gratify the curiosity of Australians as to what the visitorr. think of me colonies. They expected mucL 'rom Melbourne, we learn, but they did not expect tho half of what they Uavo jeen. The impressions which the people created upon the minA of the visitors are, however, those which are of Tiost interest. "The crowd." tho write: says, "wac British, but quieter than the crowds which gathered latch- ior the Jubilees and the funeral of the great Queen. The men were of a sterner type, more squarely cut, heavier in limb and feature than .ours. It van but rarely that some licensed iester enlivened them with tho quip and thb jest which are found everywhere in, , Cockney crowd. The women, «.00, were ol «. larger mould, of a freer carriage, and ol more independent mien than one commonly sees in England. And—to your honour be it saidyoung girls could walk in couples or alone without tear ot finding any molestation. The women of Australia— such is the impressioi. received — have developed less difference from their sisters at Homo tho •! yoiu men from their brothers. Bub they have developed in independence. Where an English girl waits to bo wailed on and assisted, an Australian will help her&elf. They have developed, uoo, in, their taste for dress. Very few canes of extremes in fashion or ia colour offended the eye. Every

woman appears to bo bien ch'aussee, bien jennies 'n slyle, almost Parisian in elegance. ' Ono umous circumstance which \\i\i noticed hi Aieibourno by the officer of tho Royal escort was a distinct nervoivjnes&s, a- v. ratchfnlne?s, on the pait of the people lesl by chance tho wrong thing should be done by a public unaccustomed lo seeing and receiving royally. But this nervousness wore off gradually, and as the first week of the Heir-Appar-ont's visit to Australia went on less restraint M'us observaoie in the public demonstrations.