LORD ROSEBERY'S WITTICISM.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue IX, 21 August 1897, Page 282

LORD ROSEBERY'S WITTICISM.

During Lord Rosebery’s term as Foreign Secretary in Mr Gladstone’s lee* administration, he was often annoyed by an elderly female who paid him daily visits to get hu opinion on matters of no importance to him whatever. Finally, becoming exasperated at the woman, he gave the doorkeepers orders not to admit her nnder any circumstances. However, not a day passed that she did not make an effort to gain a hearing, and on an unusually late visit happened to meet the secretary just as he was about to enter hie carriage. * Lord Rosebery,* said she, breathlessly, * I must see you on a moat important subject, and at once.* ‘Very well, madam.* said the urbane Secretary of State, holding open the door of the vehicle for her, * I beg of you to get in.' Delighted to be invited to drive with so important a personage, the talkative lady jumped into the carriage, Rosebery gently closing the door on her, and before she could expostulate, she heard him saying to the coachman, * Take the lady wherever she wishes to go, James, and then home.* Looking out of the window, the now irate occupant saw her late victim stepping into a cab.