NOT THE REAL RANGATIRA NUI.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 18 July 1888, Page 3

NOT THE REAL RANGATIRA NUI.

'Poor old Chesson, tlie kindImartod Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, died tlio other day ratlior suddenly. I met him constantly at the National Liberal Club, where ho was very popular. There was, however, a slight coolness between Mr Chesson and myself, which dated from the time that he palmed off Sydney Taiwhanga on London 'society as a Maori chief of the highest rank. I enlightened Mr Chesson as to Sidney a oialus and antecedents, and ho was not merely ungrateful, but obstinate in adhering to his belief. The cat eventually came out of the bag at a Colonial Institute mooting, at which poor Chesson was horribly chaffed. His blunder recoiled upon him a couple of years later, when Tawhiao and the real chiefs came over, as “society” would have none of them. Thoy never vent to any of the really smart houses rr aiw T mga visited ; in fact, although t|.io truth was sedulously concealed, Tawhiao and Co were failures as lions.” Poor Chesson was terribly distressed at Tawhaio’s immoral fondness for t he Alhambra and Empire Music HalL. He would call for the Maoris to take them to Exeter

Hall or an ovangolical prayer meeting, and find tho party driven off in a four - vveeeled cab to the Alhambra. Very funny, too, was it to see poor Chosson trying to induce Tawhaio to discriminate between champagne and ginger ale. The King invariably pretended he mistook the former for the latter. He declined, however, to have the beverage changed. Cliosson’s faith in the old sinner’s bona tides was boundless. In the lobby of the House of Commons Chesson used at one time to be well known. He wrote a good deal for tho Daily News and other liberal journals.---Star’s London correspondent.