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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 56, 8 March 1886, Page 4

A lady correspondent of The Australasian writes of an extraordinary dress. There has been a great deal of talk about a lady who appeared at the Duchesse de Bellune's amateur theatricals at Fontainebleau as a carp. Everyone wanted to know "how it was done?" The following description of the costume is given by Truth: — "The bodice was of white satin entirely covered with silver scales ; a very long train of the same material was cut in the shape of a carp's tail, and was covered from end to end with green scales shot with silver, and on each side were fins of silver gauze fastened with silver thread. The front of the skirt was profusely trimmed with water-lilies and reeds, and diamonds were showered over every part of the dress. The head was adorned with a carp's head of diamonds, arranged in a form of a crescent. It was a most beautiful and original toilette, and was greatly admired; but, of course, it should not be attempted unless the wearer possess a large stock of diamonds." The Masterton Star writes :-" Although nobody was killed as usual at the Taratahi races on Friday last, the small, but speculative, gathering of two hundred turfites were treated to one interestiag event in which the inevitable jockey was the sufferer. After the J.C. Handicap on which £60, or nearly half the total racing money, was lavished, MiThomas Eay entered the jockeys' tent, and gave Skinner, the rider of Ugly Buck, a fatherly horsewhipping for alleged jostling. Io add to Skinner's miseries, he was afteryards severely admonished by the stewards. It must be some satisfaction to jockeys to know that if they escape being killed on the smallest, stoniest, and most angular course iu the world, they will at least run the risk of being tanned, if not skinned, by some incensed owner." It is rumoured that, whereas the recipts of the late Wellington Exhibition amounted to £6000, the expenses absorbed no less than £16,000, thus leaving a deficiency of £10,000 to be provided by the Colony. " Rough on Corns." — Ask for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents Christ church. Highway Robbery Almost, to sell the poisonous, drunken, purging stuff as medicine to honest men, innocent women, and harmless children to weaken and destroy their systems and health, when pure harmless Hop Bitters can be had that cures always and continually at a trifling cost. Ask druggists or physicians. Bead..