Afternoon Tea Gossip

Free Lance, Volume VIII, Issue 377, 21 September 1907, Page 10

Afternoon Tea Gossip

By Little Miss Muffitt.

AWHANGAHEI paper, in an article last week which dealt with early land-grabbing from the Maoris, stated that a vast stretch of country "was purchased for eight double-barrelled buns » That deal certainly takes the cake. * * * Local par. in a Northern picmncial pap£ "Miss Haywards reputation aj a dressmaker is too well-kno*n to need condemnation." Only inebriates appeared at the Magistrate's Court on Thursday, and company for Mr. Riddell to presade over. „ • * Mr Haydn Wood, who appeared last week 'with Madame Albani's company, 5 the happy possessor of an exceptionally old violin, made by Gracim who 6 and made this instrument > away back in the early days of the 17th century. w , Madame Clara Butt's sister, whoMs touring with the custodian of the nation' s voice, has assumed the , name of Hook, to avoid confusion ™ th , her ,^; 5r A correspondent suggests that the name of Tank would have been a distinction without much difference • ♦ Evidently with a recollection of Hone fees-pawn constituents.

A musical conductor went up countr\ recently to give a church bazaai a hit along. At the close of the piogramme the vicar congiatulated him, and said "The music sounded really delightful m the distance, and I can assure you did not m any «ay mteitere with the sales. • * * A huge, every-day gamble has been established in Sydney Certain fiims will purchase tram tickets showing in their numbers the highest pokei or 01 ib hand. Men, women, and small boys are becoming exppit Theie is a hint for the Wellington City Council in revenue pioducmg

lii order to cover the cost of transportation and general expenses, the "Mothei Goose" pantomime must net at least £1100 per week New Zealand. To judge by the booking, it is no wild goose chase this time. • « # The demand for houses in Wellington s making agents very independent. A lady who sought a house m Tinakor* road last week was insulted by an agent, \\ ho told her that he didn't let in 1 * houses to her class. Her husband, w ho is a Government official, threatens t<) make thinp> veiy interesting for the Ik use agent.

No woman ever attributes her husband's loss of appetite to her own cooking. The "Manga weka Settler," in referring last week to a local resident at present in the Wanganui Hospital, expresses the hope that he will return home none the worse for his stay. The Hospital Tiustees are considering what damages the "Settler" could stand before being settled. * # • A burglar, or burglars, entered the premises of a Feilding butcher last week and took away with them a quantity of brawn, which, according to the butchpr, was not fit for consumption. When a burglar's luck deserts him, it "s evidently a bad case We exrject to hear of a serious outbreak of "brawnitis'" up that way. * * * A young lady, who has taken a prominent part in social affairs in a Wairarapa town, was farewelled! last week, and, according to a report in the local paper, she was presented with a lady's dressing cake. What with doublebarrelled buns and dressing cakes, it is doubtful if any art is making such strides as the baker's. * • * At the Court on Thursday last a witness was being asked his reasons for entering a certain business house in Wellington . "What dlid you go in about?" asked the magistrate. "Oh, about two months ago," was the reply Of course, the magistrate's EngMsli was to blame. Why didn't he express himself more clearly? * ♦ • Miss Grace Palotta keecs a daily record of events and incidents in her life, which «he mails away to her mother at Vienna. These are kept, and the actress says that some day she is o-oing to sort out the rubbish, and nubli<*n the good in book form. There should be a bis: demand for that book. * * # A well-known Wellingtonian, who has just returned from England and the Continent, states that the curse of piesent-day travelling is the "tipping" evil. It is a far more expensive item than ordinary fares. At one hotel <-h<? proprietor boasted that they had a stafl of 1000 servants. The Wellingtonian quietly observed that he must have missed a half-dozen or so of them, for he didn't think he had tipped quite that number.