Mr. Harry Conor,

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 March 1900, Page 81

Mr. Harry Conor,

With a quaint humour entirely his own, a rather grotesque stage appearance, a mirthprovoking voice, and the rest of him a thoroughly good fellow, " Welland Strong ' was in the good graces of New Zealanders at first sight. On the stage and off he is a funloving individual, and is as amusing in private as he is upon the boards. His " Welland Strong" in "A Trip to Chinatown " is an exceedingly comical representation, and will be remembered for many a long day. The play is a one-part piece certainly, for outside the man with the thermometer it is mainly a kind of variety entertainment. It is a play with a purpose, however — to make one laugh — and that it does thoroughly. Mr. Conor parted from the Company when the New Zealand tour was finished, and has gone on a pleasure trip to tho Transvaal. He is hopeful that the war will be over by the time he arrives, for as he said, he is not a fighting man. He is a golfer, though, aud has set his mind upon a round on the Pretoria Rinks with President Kruger. While he was in Auckland I met him early one morning with a set of clubs under his arm. Again and yet again I saw him perambulating Queen Street with his impedimenta, and the third time he carried a brown paper parcel, in addition to the driver, the brassy and the cleek. Then I questioned him, and he said : " These clubs ? Oh, yes ! You see I want people

to think I'm a golfer, then they won't'take me for an actor. This parcel ? Oh, yea ! This is a lovely blazer ! I'm off to play golf

at Ellerslie this aftornoon witlt tho Indies, and I've been hunting tho city for a Joseph's coat to frighten the cows away from the greens, for I. am a, nervous man, and I am not well and strong ! "