"TELLING THE PEOPLE" IN SOUTH LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 435, 2 June 1871, Page 2

"TELLING THE PEOPLE" IN SOUTH LONDON.

It is to be feared that the cerisW return* in South London, as elsewhere, have, not been uniformly made, with,., the, seriousness the Registrar-General desired. '- At^U events, la good deal of fjun arose put of filling upKl>he schedules on Sunday; night;' In 'onerihstftrice, where a number of la'die^WQre living 'together ] at' a boarding-house/ ekcH ono'confcrived^tjo" be' absent on a vi.it to friends.that night, aWd'so. escaped'the necessity of letting^ the l'est'^fWe I fraternity into the secret of her ageViri's^nle cases' joking was jsils'peptecl; 'Mi&fe rib De' intended, as when'ar lady puK'.ao^n'her'p'iace of birth, as "liittle Haughty-Boys;* ana it was difficult to.per9uadq,the enumerator that she meant a real place'in Norfolk. ' Among quiet jokers I particularly'udmirel Jo 'friend who revenged himself for years of hen-pecking; by inserting hia mother in-law under initials} so that that estimable lady U unconsciously returned as a lunatic. One man in Gravel Lane, Southwark-street, stated in the columf set apart for description of persons sleeping in the house, that he had 0110 tabby Tom "caw,---aß^'|R* y?^;; lalfo; |a/b}fcek>and-«fh puj, nine months old." A* resideiib in Nelson, Square stated, in „ Jh o '' Married or SingleF column, that he "hoped to be married in fa imonth." As jb'>sample,.in riih^'tvoflble,'sortie people delight in giving, I may mention- t'lie, ■faot that, one;.. spepd/thrtje hours in a coui'-t containing only thirteqn houses, having to, correct" all .tjie-• irjam s collected.— South London Press- '• wted Ssiya bwfoaw Mur m »h'F I ■I— ■—.-1.,-....,..,- • - ■ .-.X \ .>■