Page 2 Advertisements Column 6

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9668, 10 April 1893, Page 2

Stories about Lord Tennyson still crop up. The following dates back to the time when he formed one of the party which Sir Donald Currie invited to accompany Mr Gladstone on his yachting trip to Norway. Amongst the passengers was a young Eng ish girl, as clever as she was beautiful. Tennyson was strongly drawn to her, and on the froquent occasions when he read his poems to the company he liked to have her sitting hy him. he holding her hand, and in moments of exaltation plainly, though uncon?cioußly squeezing it At Copenhagen tho Princess of Wales, and hor sister, tho Empress of Russia, who happened to bs on a visit to their old home, accepted an invitation to lunch on the Pembroke Castle. After luncheon tie Poet Laureate was asked to road, and the group forme I with him sitting in the centre, the- Empress of Russia chancing to be on his right hand, where the English girl was accustome i to sit. The reading over, Tennyson asked his confidante how she thought the Empress liked it. " I fancy sho liked the roading," tho girl laughingly answered, '• But 1 noticoJ sho looked a little surprised when, having possessed yourself of her han ', you several times equoezed it." lennyson was gro t!y abashed, and was with difficulty dissuaded from expi lining matters to tho Empress. Musical matters are in a bad way iv that land o : music — Italy. A week or two ago Cowen withdrew his opora ''Bigna" from Genoa because ho could not gel decent singers or a fit orchestra. Now, Leon Cavallo, whilo ro.h ursals of his " Pugliacci " were going on at Milan, dismissoi the conductor und orchestra in a rago, « nd declared that their work w s beneath oontempl. Mr Milton Craig, pimoforto tuner and repairer, having comutonce 1 business or. his own account, has an advertisement in another column. — Advt. The finest and best cigarette i on the market are the " Paimr," which can be obtained wholesale and retail from J Avery, sole agent for Taranaki, Devonstreet, New Plymouth ; also smokers 1 requisites in groat variety. — Advt. FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL!! Just arrived, dire. t from London, a splendid assortment of now balls und extra bladders, all sizes ; from the best makers, at J. Avery'e Devon.Btreet.— Advt,