MR. SALA AND THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7651, 31 May 1886, Page 5

MR. SALA AND THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Mr. Sala, who has resumed his contributions to the Illustrated Loudon News, refers last week to Mr. Froude's extraordinary statement in "Oceana," that in Adelaide nobody cared for him (Mr. Fronde) or his three meals a day. "I apprehend," says "G.A.S." "Mr. Froudo must have been writing in a jocular strain. Wherever Mr. J, A. Froude went in the Australasian colony, the deepest interest was taken in one of the most learned scholars, the most earnest thinkers, and the noblest historians of our time. If he did not go out to luncheon every day, and dine out at least hrico ,1 week daring his stay in Adelaide, it must have been his own fault. My own humble experience of South Australian hospitality was extensive, pleasant, and. in one instance, peculiar. I arrived in the Fair City in the. winter of ISSS, at the end of July. I hid brought with me but a solitary letter of introduction, and that was from a dear friend in London to 11 is Excellency the Governor. His Excellency anil her ladyship were most hospitable, most gracious, and most kind. We were asked to stay at Government Mouse. We dined and lunched, and were asked, but did not go, to balls ; and when, after a fortnight's sojourn in the delightful placo, 1 waited upon Ilia Excellency to bid him a respectful farewell, the representative of Her Majesty remarked, with an affable smile, 'By the way, the letter of introduction which you brought me was from a gentleman whom I have not the honour to know. It is my brother, I think, that be must have meant.' Now, had this appalling information been convoyed to mo when I tirut waited on His Excellency, I should have, of course, sunk through the carpet, or proceeded to the nearest spot on the Torrens river and drowned myself. With exquisite tact and courtesy, the mistake which had been made was never mentioned till the eve of our going away laden with a load of kindness which I shall never forget."