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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 190, 29 November 1876, Page 2

And has it come to this ? Most of our readers will remember the visit of the celebrated cantatrice Mdlle. De Morska, who at the time of her visit to this town was a second-hand bride, the honeymoon being yet unexpired. Who can forget the touching picture of the fair songstress when so lately bereaved, but still more lately beloved, leaning lovingly upon the arm of Maestro Illa. How her admirers anathematised the memory of the departed Anderson, envied the lucky Hill, and insisted that the appointment of a successor to the bed and board of the departed' was not the outcome of utility, but of love—pure love. Alas for human nature ! Not six months married, and now—but we had better give the following extract: —" I am told, writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Samilton Spectator, there was rather curious scene on board one of the Melbourne steamers at Wellington on her last trip. It was intimated that Madame De Mubska would be a passenger to Nelson, and Mr. John Hill also engaged a passage ; but when the lady became aware that Mr. Hill would be on board, she declined to embark. Mr. Hill, on his part, was equally resolute not to travel in the same boat with the lady. Finding that Madame had declined to go on board, Mr. Hill went. The hour for sailing went by, and

the boat was detained an hour, when Madame went on board, and seeing nothing of Mr. TTtt.t.j he having retired, to his cabin, permitted herself to be taken to bed. The short voyage, to two of the passengers, was a 'rough one.'" From the above it would appear that all is not harmony, and that a duett between Mdlle. and Maestro sometimes degenerates into discord. Hiw Tt.t.ae lacrimae I