SOPHIA IN SYDNEY.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 153, 6 November 1895, Page 2

SOPHIA IN SYDNEY.

The Sydney Morning Herald—the Jupiter Tonans of the Southern Hoinisphere'—devotes n column to introducing Sophia Taiawhio—our own Sophia- -to the New South Wales public. Theinterviewer in his oxonlium greets Sophia as " the descendant of a long lino of Maori chieftains, world-famous guide uud splendid type of unconventionally. Heart' silver cords are shot in the' brown of her clustering-hair; a network of small linos, rime's resistless indexing of the hourglass is about her broad brow and strong features ;. but for all that and her 04 yours Sophia is a child still.. A chad as sli« stands on the scorching Sydney pavement and watches, with the look of a hunt,:l hare in her deep hazel eyes, the trains thundering by, and the traffic reverberating under the- roar of the outer city, the yell of the newsboys, the hurry and rush and strife of it all. A child, too, as she tells of the soul-affKghting perils of her Passage across ' the big sea ;' when sho struggles between a woman's desire to go oul and seethe 'sights' of the city and tie fear, bom of her Maori simplicity, that she may never be hoard of again in the huge maze of people; a child when she runs from her curious visitors in the sitting-room of the well-appointed hotel to sit-cross-legged on the Hoor and talk Maori talk to the. native boy who has come to see- her. Altogether the Taiawhio is an interesting personality in those blase days, when one person is: so much like another that numbers, not nam'. Willßooll be the rule." Sophia's story is given by the interviewer in her own words, and the recital of the' terrors of that eventful mgnt has not lost in dramatic intonsitv trough the narrator's association with Mr George Lcitch in the passago across the l'asnian Sea.