INVERCARGILL CLUB'S PRELIMINARY DANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 103

INVERCARGILL CLUB'S PRELIMINARY DANCE.

The above function took at Stewart's Ball, -Earn, street, on Thursday, the 2nd inst., and was pronounced a very brilliant success. Before proceeding with the report I should like to state that the affair was initiated, organised, and inaugurated by cut worthy comrade, Casino. It struck Casino that as local D.L.F. were' not to a person terpsichorean specialists, it ( . would be only fair to give the novices a chance before the social of learning from the more skilled, and the result was this new departure. Bonour must go where honour is due: Three cheers for Casino! Present were Tommy Trotter, Casino, Tennyson, Prospector's Double, The Helmsman, Luceda, Midgie, Iris, Pakeha, Rewa, Octava, Smoking Flax, Bolivar, Bermia, Millieent, and numerous others, the company being anything but a sparse one. , The usual programme of set and round dances, with the inclusion of games .and songs and recitations, lent a pleasing variety to the proceedings; while an excellent and toothsome supper, supplied by our' lady comirades, proved only too conclusively that D.L.F. can carry their skill into other departments of human activity besides debating. Mrs Stewart must be thanked for the supply of hot water _ and her courteous bearing and kind solicitude in -regard to our requirements. We also tender our sincere thanks to Mr Rube Stewart, who not only proved an efficient M C but thoroughly entered into the whole affair in the true D.L.F. spirit. Be sang, performed on the piano in the role of a vamp expert, and, indeed, was all there" during the evening. We owe him more than we can ever afford to pay, and if he isn't a D.L.F.—well, he's missed his avocation. So I'll just christen him "Rube D.L.F.," to. it's no use to allow a flower to waste its fragrance on the desert air, is it? I stated that this dance commenced on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock sharp, and so I may as well let you know it concluded on Friday morning at 1 o'clock —not precisely, but nearer Friday's breakfast time. It's just another little proof that D.L.F. are still D.L.F. Lavengko. Secretary. Address: Lavengro, 158 Liddel street, Invercargill.