Mostly About Women.

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 656, 25 July 1891, Page 12

Mostly About Women.

A daughteb of Madame Patey has had a picture accepted by the Salon.

Lady Jebsey patronises the Sunday concerts given in Darlinghurst skating rink.

While at St. Louis (U.S.A.) Sara B. went froghunting and billed several with a parlour rifle. They were afterwards served up on toast. Bull-froggy for Sara 1

Bacheii (Bessie), the widow of the late William Ulick Burke, bank manager at Napier, was married on the 30th of June to Mr Arthur Hector Gore, at St. Paul's Church, Wellington.

Miss A. Gbindbod, who recently recited at the Orange concert, is an excelled exponent of this art. Her elocution is good, every word being enunciated with marked distinctness.

A policeman in a state of wild fury was put under control the other day, and lodged in a Queensland madhouse. It was discovered when he settled down that a cook had merely changed her -sweetheart.

The Countess of Kintore's second cousin, Mounted Constable Rice Bulkley Hughes, died at Adelaide on 4th July of typhoid Jever. He was only 22 years of age and had been in the force for just three months.

Madame Bernhabdt had letters of introduction to the Earl and Countess of Hopetoun from Lord and Lady Lytton. These letters were presented at Government House, Melbourne, but Madame Bernhardt was not even vouchsafed the courtesy of a formal recognition of her letters of introduction.

Miss Wiedemann, who so recently won her case against) Mr Walpole, deserves great oredit for her pluck in fighting what was at one time regarded as a forlorn hope. Some may have forgotten the case. ' It wa9 this : Mr Spencer Walpole, an attache to the British Embassy at Constantinople, met Miss Wiedemann, whom he foully betrayed under promise of marriage, and brutally abandoned, afterwards marrying a wealthy young English lady. The betrayed woman sought justice in the Eaglish courts, but was unsuccessful. Finally, however,- the poor lady became, like Mrs Weldon, her own advocate, with the result that she has at last obtained a verdict.

Miss Annie Buckland, to whom the farewell benefit concert was tendered last week, may justly be claimed as an Auckland girl— having long resided here with her parents, and having received nearly all her tuition here, under Prof. Carl Schmitt. The crowded audience at the City Hall testified to the young lady's deserved popularity. Added to her vocal accomplishments and her ability as a pianist and violinist, Miss Buckland i 3 possessed of an amiable temperament, a comely face and a good stage presence. We hope to find all these qualities enhanced by her contemplated sojourn in Germany, and on her return she will receive a welcome even more enthusiastic than was her ' send-off.'

The Bulletin hits off Wellington society beautifully in the following story, probably as vero as it is hen trovato :— The wife of a late N. Z. Cabinet Minister recently called on another Maoriland dame of less exalted _ social status to solicit a bazaar-subscription. The visitor was very bind and condescending in her way, and the lady of the house was properly respectful, and gave the fair cadger a liberal contribution. After pocketing the money, the Ministerial lady became less affable, and on taking her leave freezingly remarked : ' You will, of course, understand, Mrs Blank, that this is purely a business visit.' ' Oh, don't mention it, Mrs Dash, 1 said the other ; • we are getting quite used to that sort of thing, now. Why. ic was only this very morning I had another woman canvasser here— trying to sell ma a medical work on female diseases. Just fancy ! Good afternoon.'

Another female fraud has come to the front, on the outskirts of Mount Eden district. Her modus opercundi is to bang about the district and way-lay young fellows —introducing herself by asking the time or a direction to some particular street or house in the neighbourhood. This formality through, she enters into a conversation of a ' spicy ' nature, in which she lays open her intention and speaks of herself as a single woman, thus testing the intended victims, with varying success. Later developments prove her to be married; her husband being a gumdigger who sent her to town on a holiday trip to the house of a married sister. It. is hoped that her husband and friends will take the hint and cut short her holiday pranks.

Bitbt Kennedy, the child who personates ' Little Lord Fauntleroy ' is only eight years of age, and is a most winsome little lady. She made her debut when but four years old as ' Little Willie ' in ' East Lyne • and Miss Elsie Juno thought a great deal of her. Then she played • Mary Morgan ' in ' Ten Nights in a Barroom ' when she received great praise for her songs When asked if she liked the stage, Miss Euby promptly replied • Well, I like playing " Littie Lord Fauntleroy," but I am only allowed to play it one night a week, although I would play it every night if I could. They think it too hard for me, biit really it isnh.' The clever little lady has also assisted in the ' Shaughraun ' ' Current Oath ' and ' The Forlorn Hope.' Her particular choice, however, is the '• Little Lord ' and she seems to revel in the piece.