WAIHAO.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8079, 18 September 1894, Page 1

WAIHAO.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRBHI'ON'DBNT.) Father llegnault, of Waim ito, lectured hero on Friday night. Tho Father was ono of a largo party of bishops and priests who Home months ago wont to celebrate tho jubilee of the French mission in Now Caledonia. Tho tour was extended to tho New Hebrides, Fiji, and tho Friendly Islands. For nearly tliroo hours tho Father kept his audience-- a largo one, mainly of men and boys — spellbound as ho described and illustrated tho manners and customs, appearance, dress, and homes of theso islanders. No abstract could give any idea of the lifelike pictures presented by tho lecturer. Tho colonisation of Now Caledonia, tho treatment of the convicts, tho mothods adopted to gob the convicts to settle on tho land on the expiration of their sentence, tho dark coll in which, if you stand for only a few minutes the blood runs cold, land laws, tho manufacture of cloth, implements of war, horrors, of cannibalism, tho nuking, use, and abuse of kava, strict observance of etiquette, tho Fijian masher, the marvellous pillow ho carries with him whereevor ho goes to save hii can fully plastered hair from contact with tho ground were somo of tho topics which, with abundant humor and much hiutrionio effect, were treated of. Native cloth, war clubs in profusion, u bow and arrow, a kava bowl, root, and other requisites for manufacturing tho much prized stimulant, were among tho cuiios shown. These wore all fresh from tho hands of tho natives, having been given by thorn to Father llugnnull, tho kava cup, in faot, boro traces of recent u.se. Messrs }3artoB, Osborno, and Dooley contributed at intervals homo excellent songs, which varied, though they could not moroaso, tho interest of tho lecture. Mr G. Morton was chairman, and at tho close expressed tho great pleasure received from the evening's entertainment. Very hoarty cheors for tho rev. Father tostibed to tho interest taken in what ho had said,

Ovor 20 boys undor 18 years of age havo won the Victoria Cross. Babies on the stage always ylioib a oor dial reception from thoatre-goors. The charming little girl in "The Masquoradors," now being played in London, who behaves herself bo well, is not one baby, bub three, it seems. This infantilo actress haa two under-studiea, Evory nisjhb three thriving babies, chaperoned by then respective mothers, ai t> waititig thoir turn at St. James 1 Theatre. Thy least iuclinod to bo fractious goon on a,'x leading baby in the Nureo X^^op^o'a 1 i