MISS EVA RANDALL, BARRISTER.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1 September 1904, Page 457

MISS EVA RANDALL, BARRISTER.

You no doubt read a chatty little interview given to a London journalist by Eva Randall. The latter hails latterly from Dunedin. Really, she is a Londoner, but she has been schooled in Otago, so it may fairly claim her. I like Miss Randall. Shej is just a bright, cheery girl, with

not an ounce of affectation about her. When I knew her, I was attending a course of lectures at the University College in Dunedin. We used to go home part of the way together, crossing" through the somewhat dingy square that comes out — I forget the street— J but it runs down from George Street. And though some of those winter evenings were cold and raw, Eva Randall always used to laugh. I can see her now ; a smart-looking girl, dark, and always with a laugh and a bright jest or even a remark made bright by the tone of her saying it. And no one knows how glad 1 was to see Jier when — after a short absence on account of illness— this fellow -student came to see me. Even then she was busy by day in the lawyer's office, for she was articled, and studying by night in her rooms. Rooms, you

know, are so uncomfortable for student girls, indeed, for all girls. But of course she laughed at them. Dear me! And now she is through those toilsome exams. ; is a fullfledged lawyer, with the right to plead at Court, and is taking holiday in London. Fortunate Eva Randall ! With a career before her, youth on her side, and a distinct charm of manner ! " Alma's " hopes are for her success, though I quite expect, and indeed wish, to hear next of her happy marriage. Old-fashioned ? Oh dear, no ! Only the most natural and the best state in the world of things.