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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 594, 5 December 1871, Page 2

"With a Tmw to J£__aj-_osT!"—Con' signnicnts and photographic- sample* appear to be wanted at Brighton, a BU-.ing town on the we*t coast of this province. No fewer than "30 or 4 ' unmarried women " are ad* vcr j'od for "with a view to matrimony. We ob.-m'o lhat the sex urn taking posi'ion-* hithortoi.ol. arenrded to them. At a public dinner given by the n w Lord Mayor of Melbourne lately, lidies sat down aud dined as ordinary guest.-. Ladies are preparing to matriculate, Mr shall we say graduate, at Sy'ney University; a proper advancement for the sex in the path of education. I' i* vi striking contrast with su_h progress to fit d a speculation uud r_ken lor thirty or forty of tlie *ex, to be arranged for matrimonially in a digging township. Strictest secrecy, and (•holograph and references required and' !«exchanged." Who are the forty males.' represented by Mr. 11. V. Boyd, whose addressis a Brighton hotel ? Are they a band of uodest miners who can " shout" at a hotel* our, but could not muster courage to whisper i proposal ? Or does Mr. Boyd expect decent louest girls to set themselves up to auction in his fashion, -that is supposing the thing were' genuine? Or is Mr. Boyd himself thejispiraut for matrimonial honours, ami desiresto make a selection from thirty or forty r There are dance houses and demands for bar~ maidens in digging townships like Brighton? and. no doubt, the necessity of enquiry before faction will strike most modest maidens whosr eves catch Mr. Boyd's advertisement.