A SMART LADY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1671, 5 March 1890, Page 3

A SMART LADY.

The gallant captain of one of the* Union boats had a somewhat unusuali experience on a late strip to Sydney.! After getting to sea, it. was found that one or the lady passengers had not got a passage ticket, and it was accordingly decided to pat her ashore at an outj port. She had evidently read _th«j| story of Lola Montes and the Melbourne bum-bailiff, and how the fair Lola, when the officer of the law went on board the steamer in Hobson Bay to bring her ashore for " a little bill " for lodging, calmly went into her cabin, doffed her garments, and when garbed in the uniform of Paradise, called out to the bailiff that he could come in and take her ashore if he liked. The minion of the law was completely nonplussed at the new development, and he went ashore minus his money. The fair passenger on the steamer, it is said, adopted the Lolean tactics, and the gallant captain was at his wits' end how to circumvent the enemy. It was proposed that the services of the police should be invoked and that she should be taken ashore in, a blanket. Ultimately, the lady coming to the conclusion that constabulary duty would be done, and being averse to being blanketed, condescended to put on her robe de nuit again, the " combination garment," and some other trifling adornments, and went ashore. She drifted back to Auckland to wait another chance of getting to Sydney ; but that gallant captain carefully scans the passenger list to see if Mrs Brown's name is on it before he starts, and he does not want to have another "blanketing arrangement."