The Reporter and the Prince.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 28

The Reporter and the Prince.

There is no truth in the rumour that the Prince of Wales is going to imitate the example of the beautiful Mrs Langtry, and go upon the stage. He was interviewed upon the subject by an American newspaper correspondent, who just dropped in to lunch at Windsor Castle, and he sends the following explicit denial to James Gordon Bennett. He writes as follows :— ' Me and the Prince was getting away with a mutton-chop, and it seemed a kinder I opportune moment, as the servant-girl was out of the room. Albert Edward was pesky mad 'cez she'd come in before me with a smut on her nose and her hair in papers, and he told her to git, and draw her wages from the Lord Mayor. So, when we was alone and sort o' confidential, I jes drew my chair up alongside of him, and, graoefully picking my teeth with a gold fork, I sez : " Ally, you know I'm Court correspondent to Jim Bennett, him as wanted to give yer a yacht, and there's a darned rumour In Naw York as you're struck on Mrs L (he knew who I meant), and are studying up Romero to play to her Jewllar. Now, I want to be able to cable to Jim as the whole thing is a plot to weaken foreign securities and hog the stock market, and if you'il give me the true business, I I'll see that Jim sends you a four-masted schooner and pays all your debts." " Korekt, my covey," says Al. " Hill give you the T. B. Tho honly hafcoin of truf.h i*. the 'ole kanonVd about mo Riirl Mrd Lang try ii, that I wunoe hwted. in come private theatrioals with her nibs

[ hup at my 'ome in the Hlsle of Wight. You musn't believe no hidiotic storiee of that 'ere kind. Vy, himagine a King of Hengland in futuro, as the lawyers say, a-going for to hact hon a hordinary stage, with seats in the blooming gallery hat a shilling. Mi muvver wonld disinerit me, and Halexandra would weep 'er heyes out. Give my love to Bennett when you 'aye occasion to write, and don't tell 'im aa I said I 'card he padded the carves of his blooming legs." ' This sets at rest all idle rumours about the Prince of Wales going en the stage. — S. F. News Letter.