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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 534, 26 August 1881, Page 3

Tub most successful matrimonial career of modern times is that of a beggar man who recently died at Naples. He had been married thirteen times and was father of 123 children, of whom 122 are still giving. circular advocating a summer resort calls attention to "numerous cosey seats in forked trees and elsewheie, some of them just large enough for two persons." We defy the production of an attraction that can go ahead of that. We shall pass the major part of the summer there. This is the way a very irreverent Sydney production talks about the Royal Middies' dancing at the Mayor's ball of that City, given in their honour :—The dancing of their Royal Highnesses ia peculiarly their own. We considered we knew something about dancing before we saw the Princes periorm, but now we own that we have nirtho time been crttely letting up on Terpsichore. One thing necessary to the Royal middies is plenty of room, for their action is high, and they fly off at sharp angles and trust to the girl to steer. Prince Albert Victor keeps his back very straight, and elevates his chin so hi_;h that it is a wonder ho does not knock his partner's teeth out; while Prince George gets up a good spin, then clutches his partner's waistband tightly, and leaves the issue to Providence. The whole thing viewed comfortably from a distance was very novel, and very instructive, and we think if we had the option any day of paying a crown to see either a eire-us liorse eat apple-pie with a clown, or the Royal Paincos dance the trois-temps, we would unhesitatingly choose the performituce of the latter.