POLLY PLUM.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 455, 26 June 1871, Page 2

POLLY PLUM.

We feel confident <hnt the announcement that Mrs. Colelough, so well known through the columns of the Cross as " Polly Plum," will deliver a lecture lonight at the City Hall, will attract a crowded house. We understand that His Excellency and Lady Bowen will be present, as well as a large number of our most prominent public men, but it will not require such, advenntious aid to attract an audience, as the unusual circumstance of a lady lecturing, and one oT such acknowledged ability and greai practical common sense, is sure to create a sensation. . " Polly Plum" has her detractors, as all ladies have who have the audacity to enter on_ the paths of literature. Thero is something inherently mean nnd unchivalrous in some men's natures that prompts them to sneer at woman whenever slie steps out of the beaten track, although there are few who do not admire originaHtv and independence of thought, and action on the part of man. " Polly Plum" in all her writings has been the consistent advocate, not of anything masculine in the character and conduct of women, but of common sense and true womanly qualities, as opposed to the frivolity and stlliness that arp too often regarded as fineladyism. We are confident that the people of Auckland are not the kind to give an unchivalrous reception to any lady, and that it will appear from the lecture that there is a genuine kindly feeling existing in the city towards " Polly Plum."