LORD CAIRNS INTERVIEWED.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7720, 18 April 1887, Page 3

LORD CAIRNS INTERVIEWED.

Among the passengers from London by the Orient steamer Garonne, which arrived at Adelaide on Friday was Karl Cairns, better known, perhaps, as Lord Gnrmoyle, and principally celebrated en account of haying broken off his engagement with Miss Fortesque— an actress of the Savoy Theatre. I boarded the vessel in order to interview Mr Romily, (ho British High Commissioner for the Pacific, and by chance came across the youthful earl, leaning ovev the bulwarks, and looking towards the Semaphore through a gold rimmed monacleand a hazy smoke of a Tnrkish cigarette. He was dressed in cricketing flannels, and his general appearance was that of a butterfly ,dudo, accustomed to spend his evenings in fluttering round the Criterion, and lonifting from one green room to another. His Lordship looked rather alarmed when I was introduced to him, and he said, as he languidly twirled his moustache, "I hope, you know, that you won't write up an interview with me m the way those American fellows do. Do you know- they actually put things into a fellow's mouth which he would never dream of saying, and chat sort of thing is Btich an awful bore, don't you know. You want to know what my object was in coming to Australia? Well, in the first place, I've come ont on account of health, as I have been a little off color on account of recent annoyances ; and secondly, I want to luvo "something to do. No, 1 have no prespnt intention of going in for politics; fact is, I don't take much interest in 'em just now, but probably shall as I grow older. If a fellow wants to go in for that sort of thing he ought to work himself up for it by getting a bil fit as private secretary in one of these departments. 1 ' His Lordship expressed his approval at the appointment or upper members of the aristocracy like Lord Carrington to governorships. He had no intention ot purchasing land in Australia, aud should probably be turning his steps homeward about September or October, either via South America or Ceylon. He concluded by saying that be would stay for a few weeks with Lord Carrington, after winch lie would accompany the High Commissioner on what he believes would be an "awfully jolly erulse among the balmy Islands of the Pacific," Here his Lordship's major-domo, who had been closely watching him during his conversation with me, stepped forward and whispered a couple of words into his aristocratic ear, upon which the noble earl hurriedly said, " Ta ta, old cbappio," and gently fluttered his ungloved but bejewelled fingers.— Adelaide correspondent Sydney Evening News.