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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 347

The general election is already casting its shadow before. Mr C. E. Button. M.H.R., is going to address the electors of Auckland on Friday evening, the 27th.

Of all the fashionable fads of to day that accentuation of domestic grief which shows itself in a black shirt, black collar and cuffs, and white studs, white cuff buttons, and white necktie, is about the most ridiculous. Fashionable London says a meiropolitan journalist will soon be promenading Piccadilly with miniature coffins for jewellery and artificial tears painted on the cheeks. It is doubtful whether such people could really shed any other kind but genuine hand painted tears. When women put tbeirtoddlmgchiidren in deep mourning and rode in the park with their poodles dressed in crape, it seemed that this sort of thing could go no further Now that men have taken to black shirts and sable handkerchiefs, however, the onus of tomfoolery is removed from the shoulders of womenkind.