Afternoon Tea Gossip

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 96, 3 May 1902, Page 7

Afternoon Tea Gossip

By Little Miss Muffitt.

The now Mjaoi ot Dunechn (Mi J. A Paik) is Hon Lieut and Quaiteima#.t< i ot the Otago Battalion of Mounted Rifles * * • Tlio Rev Arthui Mitchell the <-mgi.iß iwison" ot tlie Wesley an Church mi this colom holds the gold modal ot \ktona toi bantoiio singing * * * A Southern paper announces in ith advertising columns that a pencil vainoiu gram and nianuic drill is .01 sale Note how the autliont\ spells Pennv\h ania * * * Little Potoi Ponoko poked his nose (m>i a Wilhs-stiect chemist's, countei onocb last, week and e\ed the sain c pontleman belund Box ot pills, plraw ' Anti-bilious'- 1 queried the chonmt No. imolo'<- bilious " answeiod That mattei-ot-tact child. The Re\ J G W Klhs who has just been naJifetened horn Law 1 once in the South to Opunake in the North, is a flow i'M soit of Wesle\ an parson. We is an aident grow 01 of daffodils, and li* enthusiasm has led him so far a*, wntma; papeis on the same giddy subject Mi.sFloioncc Balgaime the temperance lectmei who is coining to Wellington is a w arm ad\ oeate of the large wai^t and is a lning exemplar ot hei doctnne The\ say hei own shut band must be little less than thirty-five inches though uninistakabh worn o\ er a eoi set. 'Baikis is willm'," out at Pahiatua will bo pleased to learn that one ot the S-sdne\ papeis 1-, suggesting that sonic of the superfluous girls ovei thcie should shift to Wellington to meet the demand m the matumomal niaiket. ±lo\\ many bachelors aie wanting wne« at Palnatua 2 V.'ellmgton go thou to A<=hbu:tou, and learn how to do things. I hat diminutive hamlet has recently erected a series of ornamental bike .stands outside the Post Office Ashburtomte* luue not the sole light to eiect 'inprovpmraits and t\\e\ wont be cioss it we copy them * * • Fred. Pirani gets a point 111 prett\ frequently. The Arbitiation Court in Palmorston was discussing boy laboui m printing offices Mr Slater thought composing work unfitted boys for othei occupations ' Don't seem to have unhttod the President of the Aibitration Court (Judge Cooper). He was a •comp ' before he took to law- chirped Fied _ One at least ot the . New Zealand boys. who was in the thick of the fight at Bothasberg-he hails from Christ-cluucli-is not likely to take a Dutch wife and forget the girl he left behind him Writing home, he says ineu w-ere also some women theie, who weie oheenng and urging the Boers on two women even bailed up one of our chaps and threatened to shoot him if he h not hand over his money I, 0"^.0 "^.. 1 !?; a httle pity and respect for the Dute women "but since that night I haM> none " # » Di J M Peebles who is coming <-o Wellington, to lecture under the auslaw ot abstaining from the oatino ot th«- flesh ot swme J»™PpoTt of the latter, he mentions that no Jew- e\ o-r suffered from cancer. \\ 011der how he know-&, so as to be cocksiue on tho point? He must have rathei aai extensive acquaintance among the Chosen People « * * * The white flower of a blameless life got a dienching the other da^. In other words, Major Stew aid, M H X the weai or of the above blossom wa^ tumbled out of a trap into ten teot ot watei while inspecting a river bridge and sprained lias ankle badly in the act of scrambling to the bank It was an undignified situation for a dignified Legislator to be in, but even-one is glad he is safely out of it Let us hope the ankle will mend in time to let tho longthv Major mount the stump a* nimbi v as usual when the bell ling*