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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 July 1872, Page 2

Another of the oldest contributors to " Punch" has passed away. Genial, kindly Horace Maybe w has gone to the u land o' the leal." Jerrold, Thackeray, A'Beckett, Leech, and Leman have gone before, and the "Punch" is getting weak. The old party has disappeared from the table, and the new men seem troubled by their shades. Now and then there is a faint gleam, but the " Punch," whose business it was to lead, to form, and sometimes to force public opinion, has passed away—at least for the present, and formidable rivals divide honours and proiits wilh the meri-y hunchback who wiolds his baton under the shadow of the tall spire, of St. Bride's. We have the following from a London crespondent :—•'Turning aside for a time from the dreary waste of poliiics, I might perhaps, if space would permit, make something more than bhort reference to social matters of interest.. The marriage of the Marquis of Bute, with the grand ceremonial and present from Rome, smacking strongly of a disposition to welcome in a marked manner so wealthy a convert. and garters were at the chapel in force, and tie author of " Lothairwas present to sign the marriage papers. The public have somehow identified the leader of the opposition as the exponent of some phases of the " Bates'" character in that very sickly prosaic production known as " Lothair," and Mr. Disraeli attended to do his part, reminding me much of the part played at another wedding by one Vincent Crummbs."