Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1911, 2 March 1870, Page 6

Siikhtiun's Cauef.rssness. —And now the reckless spendthrift begun todetcrioriate. The Regent's society led him into the Regent's ■vices. He quickened his wit by wine (ill it p'.olo away his health. Indolence got a closer grip upon him, and chained up all his faculties. He spent half his time drinking and joking, the other half in evading his angry creditors, lie was sometimes for hours, even for day?, ambushed in the trrasuryat Drury Lane. Ho seldom answered letters, and very often did not open those he received. Ho lost receipts a-.id paid bills twice or throe time* over. He allowed interest to accumulate on small sums, till the parasilre grow larger than the tree that nourished tho fatal n/loption. Unopened letters containing bunk-notes \\oi\» found, by friends w!io culled on him, wedding β-rattling window. He woald set out on a journey without half enough money, then live expensively ut an inn, and wait till some friend to whom he appealed raised Hie siege. It was said to be his invariable daily dramatic- trick to get the rooms ou both sides of his hall filled with growling ei-jditoi-s, and then to slip out down the centre, '•'id borrow money for the day in his own ""uiitable nnd irresistable -wheedling manner. ? ; K <s constantly being arrested, and always Riismjsjouey to pay his debts. The leaky boat requ vd i nceaßaufc bailing, or down the °^ /w won d sink for ever. — O ass M's ■Young ladies u lo p l ay croquefc m taown ,Wut of Attachmeaw-A marriage certfi-