A RICH INCIDENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 285, 22 March 1877, Page 3

A RICH INCIDENT.

It seems that at the ball to the Governor a couple of weeks ago the gentlemen \/i.o had t ;e general direction of the reception arrangements thought the ball would be incomplete without a master of ctivin' nies, and accordingly appointed to that olilce a youth, not u. ku nvn to Reefion and Lyell, of the name of " Teddy Clemens." On tlie vice-rj-gal party entering t -.e bali-ivom and taking lip position to"pe.i the dancj, the music struck up, when the redoubtable "Teddy" cried out, " Top lady and bottom gent swing in the centre." This piece of direction, it seems, was not acted upsn with ruLicient alacrity, whereupon the in '.efatigable - Teddy." who mid up a position at the dl.ow of his Excellency, gave the Litter an unmistakcable pus!i forward. Tic Marquis, instead of driving ahead iuto the of his lady vis-a-vis at the command, iitrnul r nnd and looked unutterable t.-ings at the diminutive M.C., but " Teddy " was not to be " put away" by even the darkest of the vice-regal frowns, and acc- 'rdhigty took no notice of his Excellency. but repeated the direction in a much iouckr tone of v. ice. At this stage his Excellency beckoned to his aide-de-camp, anf I a few minutes later '• Teddy" was quietly yet igtioniiniously " scruli'ed " out of the room. How tlie dancing got on without "Teddy," history does not relate, bnt he having declined to leave the precinc s of the ball-room untill he was paid his fee, obtained tiie amount and proceeded to have a "fly rouad."