TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6061, 21 September 1894, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH ABD IOEEIGN.I

(Peb Elboteio Tklkgbaph—Copybioht.) (Peb Pbbsb Association.) Received 11.15 a.m., September 20th.

MAX O'RELL ON AUSTRALIA.

London, September 19. Max O'Rell m bis book on Australia, states that Great Britain acquired the colonies at the cost of little blood but a good deal of whisky. He says that m | colonial sooiety there is nothing, and that the people are content to copy all the shams, follies and imposturea of British venality, and that the adoration of the golden calf, hypocrisy and cant are more noticeable m the colonies than m England. He considers the Australian working men are lazy, fond of drink, and spendthrift, thinking only of pleasures, and taking no interest m the development of the country. His labour | is mercenary, enormous wages are earned, and these are spout m frivolity. The writer believes that the colonies are much too jealous of one another to care for federation. Colonials, he cays, are very enterprising and have all the qualities and foibles of the English. He concludes by stating that if isolation has intensified some of the faults it has also accentuated the virtues of the people.