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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue X, 5 March 1898, Page 287

A farewell concert is to be given in Wellington on the 15th March to Mrs Parsons and her daughters before their departure for Europe, where Miss Phoebe Parsons intends to obtain singing lessons from the bestmasters, and to thoroughly cultivate her beautiful voice. Miss Parsons has, at the earnest desire of the joint committees of the concert, consented to fill the role of the ‘Plaintiff’ in the operetta, ‘Trial by Jury,’ which is to be the piece de resistance of the concert. In view of the ever ready help which Mrs Parsons and her talented daughters have always been ready to extend to concerts in aid of charities in Wellington, and to the great popularity of the beneficiaries, the concert will no doubt prove an undoubted success. King Humbert recently visited an Italian hospital and left a sum of money with the directors, so that the patients might each have some additional delicacy in honour of the event. One of the sick men, hearing of this, complained that his dinner had been no better than’usual. The nurse explained to him: ‘My good fellow, the state of your health doesn’t permit of any change in your diet, but the doctor had ordered you a dozen leeches, and, as a treat, we are going to apply eighteen.’