SOMETHING LIKE A DINNER.
Tha greatest dinner ever known la England waa that given by Lord Romney to the Kent Voluntrwß, on August 1, 179;), whbii George 111. reviewed them near Maid tone. Tbe tables, amounting to 91 m number, for the timber coat £1600. The entertainment, to which 6500 persona ■at down, ocxißtsted of 95 lambs m quarters, 20i> diabes of roast beef, 700 fowls (three m a Jish), 220 meat piei t 300 ha us, :00 tongue., 220 froit plei, 2iiO d>Bhes ot boiled beef, 22J joints of ros i v-h'. Keren pipes of port frer# hot I'd if nd 11 butts of ale; and m ajuo.i iso;7,]<r ba»«- was alto plaoed ia Uru-i Tt as Jk to supply tba oompany\ After dino^r Hla .r j .-, '■ heath will given iv a buonper by too \ olantesri ; %I|. strndlng aticovewd, with three tittfi three, acoorap&nied by the laailo of sll the baode,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 10 February 1887, Page 2
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152SOMETHING LIKE A DINNER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 10 February 1887, Page 2
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