GOSSIPPY NOTES

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 157, 18 January 1878, Page 2

GOSSIPPY NOTES

(FHO.M OUR CHHISTCHUIiCII GOSSIP.) The holidays are over, and with them the work entailed on newspaper correspondents, such us your liumhie servant, by the visits of such musical celebrities. The threat Levy lias taken his departure also. He was well worth listening , to for, say two nights, if only for his wonderful execution on the cornet, bur there was a sameness in his programmes, which no doubt told upon his audience. Miss Ada Ward is now occupying the boards of the Theatre Royal, find she richiy deserves higher praise than was so churlishly given at least by one of the writers of the dailies. Rumour lias it that it would not do to flatter too highly this artiste, as another lady, a friend of the said writer, play.s similar roles. Be this as it may, certain it

is that Miss Ward deserves higher praise on her acting than she has yet had. What a pity it is that you do not keep on your start" a gushing- shipping reporter ; the reports that appear in your whipping columns are of a and stingy character. Now, if you wark to make your paper sell, get a good set him to work making shipping locals ; let him take as a guide the reports that appear in the columns of the Press newspaper; the}' are regular gushers, and when you next have a colonial steamer in, shove in a full report of her doings for the past month or two. I notice in your reports there is a want of deep and earnest thought. The Press reporter commences generally with the day before the occurrence that has taken place, such as Fri lay night was fine, and on Saturday it was a dead calm, and the sea was as smooth as glass. If the Reward and the Antelope are going out of harbour together, let him speak of the breeze ; the wind' N. E. by W., and what a glorious sight it was to see these two vessels starting, for their respective ports under a perfect cloud of canvas. If you put in something in this style it will, I predict, make yQnr paper a first-class shipping gazette. Only :lo not let your reporter get mixed, make a mistake, and say the captain (instead of the ship) was as tight as a Uott'fe. . Oh, Regatta's be blowed, I fancy I hear thousands of peoplesny this: Whocares for the racing of vessels? I do I go to the Lyttelton Regatta. Yes. this child was there, taking notes, arid I should have written you a full description of what I saw on that occasion, but for certain "potent" i reasons. I went on New Year's Day to I the fishing village, but unfortunately, with ! my friend George, I did not get a feed on board the flag-ship. I was not.a sub-; scriber of a guinea ? mine was the widow's ; mite, a bob. I hear that some who put down their names, did not get an invite,! cash not being paid up. I gave according to the length of my purse, and, like the i Indian famine subscription, I did not get i

an acknowledgement. well," my light was hid under a bushel, like , 'many others. Next year collectors will come round for subscriptions, and will got them. I read tha report of the Regatta meeting, ami read the li*t of toasts. There was only one wanting, and that was "our noble selves," with musical honours. "For we are jolly good fellows. &c."—Was that an omission, or had it been drunk all the evening. The Turkish baths are now the rage iv Christchurch, and every one who. is able to beg, borrow, and shall I say it are rushing the. attendants and getting sweated. I have not yet been scrubbed, but shortly. I intend paying those l>aths a visit, and will give you my experience in a future letter.