HAPPENINGS IN THE CAPITAL.

North Otago Times, 30 May 1908, Page 2

HAPPENINGS IN THE CAPITAL.

(By " Penelope.*') "Wellington, May 27."' —The Anglo-Welsh Jb'oothnlleis.— Wo arc reduce.*: to calling onr visi- ■ tors by the above name, foi Ireland or; * Scotland arc not represented in .the - team, and so British is a misnomer; They are the heroes of the week, and rake their walks abroad beneath the admiring public eye with au easy nonchalance that shows the attention is not unusual. Tlie start in the fourhorsc (Irn£r from the Grand Hotel for practice is a morning epcctaclo that hundreds watch tor, and their practice is taken under many critical eyes, rather to the annoyance of the team. J hey are, at first fflaneo, middle aged, - but, on looking closer, one notices how strongly built and proportioned ' is almost every man. One forward/ Jackson, is a magnificent specimen, with a full clean-shaven face, and thick curling: black hair, a fisherman* ut. sportsman, and the show dancer of the team. On the whole the visitors emphasise what one gunerallv hears of thecrowine disinclination of the Englishman to dance. Quite a mvmher of them are content like tho Eastern potentates to do their "dancing fey proxy. But they talk well and listen well and so /ill an important place in a ballroom. Mr Jackson comes from Cornwall, and can tell quaint tales of emiifnrler.s e «vos in the cliffs obou+hV home A number are Guv's men, and Jinvo found ready-made,friends in thoW who have walked that famous hospital or who ha-ve sone there. To the latter lielonjf Ml; Tolhurst, head of the Union i-anlc. and Sir liobcrt Stoul-. to whom it is said, no J vss than sis of tjie team broujrht letters of introduction. J.ady Stout is in Auckland, but put ■ her house at the disposal of her vdttf»r tvieuch for a danco for the footballers ana n most delightful evening w'tffc spt-ut'on Thursday, theina- Mr* .Napier Maclean jyftfWßß? Lwem The Sn ino ov?imijr^ir n & : oj the men went to a Jlrttld plav, .foiowed by a dance-trotf ,„> by (b*o pi ttelhnnton Cofe <Lnpt iv'Utly enjoyed 'tliomßolv cs . Rome ha\V ? tarroH/ «i«J i^nvhaTo 0 been" tnn ,- 1 J wr,le t U * y are hi fasterton and fa match i„ Wellington j, jfeli ol \ Wc . dw£( W. Unfortunately Srtnsati W h o is a brilliant player n .Mired his shoulder in « ,wlct&e buV o-vpuctcd to be well by Wednes-

—About People.— Mr aiu Mis Herbert Thompson, of o viMt thoir duster; in Brisbane. Uintiidd. lady B„ SS0 1I is ' at P rcS -tfolleston wore paswtigors bv the Sydney boat a, M I ffo to .Singapore. M,-4 Al Euvn leaves for England, where she 7? r to *P.™d » yew, in September, iwr at j-Avcu joins her Inter, travel line tnrough i,nnndn. Miss Sybil dohnston, v.im 13 well-known hero as n designer and nrt-ist, and who teaches nt "the leelmical »S< hool, is or<rnin.-in£ a set oi movijiir pictures framed on Wuitaf Crnno s Queen Summer. Tho idea is new here, and is eertaiin to ),o urtistU ually earned out. The figures »»ove but donot jipenk to the aeconipanimciit of suitable i«u.<ie, and io .wrmla fpolceu by an elocutionist. Tho entertainment is in aid of omv free art though, since, our "lender" wn.i r.j easily stolen, the.™ lijxh not w'oji no mue}, public .sympathy for art. I here U , v belief that tliu picture ».s in UHmitfton, and n reward offered would hri'iitf jt t« light. UHJingtuu is full „f harassed and weary lonic pnMonger.s waiting for Uio k1 earner <o *»il, Atnoag theso are Mr and Mr* .iritllenstom nnd their ciiildrnn, from C'ln-JNtdjut'cli ; .Mr and fttra Sinelair Thomxoti t\ud their family, from Didifvliri ; thtf l{civ. M'J.(*(in, hi« wife and baby, who mine, from India <u Hen hia |iccij)!u iu Dtiin/din • Mim* Izard, the from Nit-plef, and Mr and Mih Kr/uiJt Allen and family, TheMi; tire only a faw in (he record puwentfeidiHt, The first ami ( nooondeJuKsj ran live on boo I'd, if they ehooft.% but probably maul would prefer their hotels, Tliu steernu'e been ai.T'oiiimndnled in th" town, svi (he w|msu (pmrlert; were, burnt had to o<'eiipy the steerage, Lonj' fitceM and worried looks ate uiiiverwil,

ami ihnVi} j* tl \\ imeunv U'uWita abroad, iipwntimlod, j\iiM)ji(f- tlio irifji'n slitinu.t, by tin? published nnm.mnt'i> incut thu* (hit ik l\\o U>nii''ti thiHwtith tri I'- ■ ■ ■ - --iiii —A Ship On hire.— Exdtiug us Huh sound*, there* \ft\* t really tiothing out nftlm way in of the lonic when wp rushed down 1o sec her on hearing the news. She looked quite normal, exempt for a few pulls of smoke from ihc portholes aft. A rope barrier prevented dose inspection,' and j beyond the splendid now motor fin; engine of Iho Harbor Board glittered in the sunshine find, snorted at intervals. But so far it had not.town used. At the other end of the vessel" chores were being loaded with evidently do fear of thtiir 'being converted, into Welsh rarebit. However, the next day mutters were worse, and the hold hud to bo flooded, postponing the further departure of tjifl ship for som-9 -days. One family, I 'hilar, wns unfortunate ejjou-gli to have thnt hold, fbey bad shipped, thpir furniture, sold pld family ujlvflr, and various belongings, and it was stored ip the hold where- tho fire originated fa pug of %ha cases wan n Allium valqod at 43000, and |n*iwl .it one thpntiand, ]t hat} ijeep fosirpynd. There is a decided fc-pling o,f uncftsiiiese on the part 0 f some of pacspiiffovs, \vho*arrt not n't all eonsoU erl with the reflpclion that (he. fire might liavp, oecurred in Of Uip tV|«y is ustrrmily annoying, but the company is doktg its hesl, U\ the