THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1877

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 90, 2 November 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1877

The Jbckey Club met last night and appointed stewards and other officers of tho forthcoming, races. A programme, will be published in the early part of next week. Elsewhere v/e publish the proceedings of yesterday and tho preceding day's sitting of ttfe Warden's. Court. The great length of 'our report completely ahuta out all other local matter. Tho.Eoso Brotbera. flpdj Violet. Roso aps poarcd again. last night to. a fair audience. Everything passed, off in a moot satisfactory and ploasing' nanncr. Owing to tho detention/in Seqfton of the ogont, through floods, tho stay hero of the. troupe has been. prp«. longed until. Saturday nest, when a final performance will be given, on which ocoasion an entirely ne,w ; programme will be presented, and a number, of. atartlipg uoyelties presented, in mirth, magic, and mystery. It muy possibly be instructive,, as well aa. interesting, to our lady readers, to give them,, a little insight into the cost of an evenings entertiiinment in some of.lho groat, houses of Londop. The entertainments rof.crred to nil fcook plaeo during the present, season, and the figures represent tho tota}: sums. paid. An evening party at ono of thp grea|) houses, in which the hostess is of high rank, and, which, woe attended by some 400 guests, cost as follows :— Kitchen department. £140 5s 8; fruit, £40— £180 5a 8d ; wine, £27 10s: .mineral water, £4 105— £3.; oil, 4 ; 2, c indies £13 ; g«s and men, £7— £24 ; hire of glass and ohina, £6,; hiro of ohairs, £3 2a— £9 2s; extra cook?, £22; extra- waiters,-27£ ; police, £3 9a 6ft j carpenters, £9143— £62 3s 6d i 'band, £70 j sundries— ale, £2 109 ; ; washing, £3 10s ; icp, £3-£9 ; total, £38G lls-2,1. A concert, at ono of the beat of what may bo called tho ordinary party -giving hpuses in •London coats as follows :— The singors being, Albani,Thalberg, Capoul, andfivo c-tborfl, and the guests being about. 250 in number :— Singers and conductor. £400} supper, inclu* ding hire of everything nocossary, £156 ; wine, &c, £45.; total, £Goi. A ball, at ono of tlio great '• houses," with 600 guests present, costs as follows : — Kitchen department, £187 lSs ; wine, £62 ss; extra wnitern and coots £28 15s ; cfindlcs, £14 8a ; oil, £1 13s 8d ; giia, £17 7i ; flowers, £120 ; band, £i 2 15a ; police, £3 ; hire of chairs ,£9; sundries, £11---£468 Is 9d. A ball at ono of tho best ordinary houses, with 350 guests, costs as follows: . — Snpper, including biro of everything £225 ; wine, &c, £75 ; music, say £15 ; do« corations, £300— £615. It will bo observed n that tho coat of the cntcrtuinme,nt at tho n t )yat •• house" is conaiderably leas in propory lion than at the ordinary house, lor while at tho former tho evoning party cost nt tho rato of 10? 6d per gnoßt, at tho smaller iaoino tho concert cost at tho rato of ov.or 43s per guesfe, and the ball at the. rato of 3,5s per guest. F This, of course, arisen, fraju the fact that in the great house a, great establishment is always kopb on foot, and th,afc thpre. is but >r little occassion to hire extra B«ats or to .provide 10 extra decorations, Sqvpral diyarce c,aaeß have, la.tply oocupiec 1 •he attention of the Divorce Courts in Vicid f oria and New South Wales. Comparing (he cases, a correspondent of the. Otago. Dailj l " ij'lmes Says: — Macartney's was ft coarpy one brutal one, nnd did not compare in romantic nterpst to. that iclylic one recently tried til Sydney. I rae.m iho cmo in which Captaii , Sims, of thetelcgruph cubh'-rcpuiring steinner 6Ought to locHvorcod from hia wife. 'Jhi >] lady, it seemed, wna accustomed bo writi cuhuing letters of ullgction to her liusbanc _ tolling him that uho v/,as '' sitting by the wic MO. wayee," dreuuiing of him : wherca.-', ii 111 ' ' ' * 10 truth, utid in fact; us tho lawyers soy, she ,wa^ bathing in the aea with Mr Davidson, tU<

| . wM^jUHIJJHIH' 1 Mllll I lit II I 11 11 II 111 I I^ll I ' 111 l I II '!<■■! 11111111111 l WiIIIHUMMW ■HIM!) «q ■■!■! corespondent, and allowing that gentleman to attire her in his garments, paint a moustache on hor lips, and take her out for a vsralk. Then that Httle touch of nature, where, when her husband returned, she. threw her arms rounc? hU neck and called him, " Dear Charley" his namo not being Charlie, which indeed belonged to. Mr Davidgon— why .it would have been worth anything to a lady novelist writing society novels for the edifioa* tion and instruction of her sex. Altogether the case was, as I suy, an idllyic one, and when wo read it we thought it quite thrown away on so unnappreciatiro a. community, as. tbat of Sydney. J. Ot. S. Grant evidently missed his mark when he addressed, a long letter to. the Editor of the, John O'Groafc jpurnul (August 28th) in which, he attempts to heap obloquy upon all our New Zealand public institutions. Thero ia not a single object thut this reviler beholds, bujt is tainted with corruption, Politically and* socially, according to him, New Zealand i 9 a perfect hot-bod of vice. " Beggary , prostitution, and social demoralisation," he says, ''are the salient characteristics of our mushroom cities.' Again, '• The well-to-do classes divide their attention, alternately to.Maraaion and Bacch-r. us." He has not even a, good word) to say, of. ) those societies formed in Dunedjn, to keep alive old associations, such as aro found in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London;, but characterises thorn thus :— "There is inter alia a Cathness Sutherland, Orknoy, and Shetland Association. The members perio* dically. U9semb!o in ou]t pot.-hpnses, drink, rave, and issue manifestoes to delude the un* wary to this land of bunkum and bank* ruptcy." The whole of fcho. letter is in keeping with (heso quotations, and w<e do not wondpii at tho Editor, even judging the production from its internal evidonce,. intro* ducing it in these words. 1 — " Tho folio, ring sketch of Now Zealand is from the pen of a gentleman well known in that! interesting colony. It ia the wail of a disappointed oolonist who can see nothing but the blackness of darkness brooding, over his unhappy neighbor. Wo. givo the-letter a place, knpw« ing it will provoke both pity and laughter from those who know. Now Zealand and the writer,"— Tuapeka Times, A muddy brain is. the usual concomitant of a disordered stomacn. Life's cares are quite enough for the great thinking organ to bear without being plagued by the demons, begotten^ qf indigestion, con - stipation, and kiiiared^ajlments. But dont imagine you emu drfae away these plagues by violent purgation. The one thing needful is an alterative thafc will restore the regular action of the internal machinery without irritating or weakening it. Udolfiio Wolfe's Sciiiedam Aro* matic Schnapps will do this.