KALAKAUA'S DANCE AT VIENNA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3243, 22 November 1881, Page 4

KALAKAUA'S DANCE AT VIENNA.

King Kalakaua's, tho august' roving correspondent ' of the Hawaiian Gazette, who preserved such a dignified demeanor during his sojourns in London and Berlin, haa yielded to tho exuberant joviality of the Austrian Kaiserstadt and broken out into a very ecstasy of ' high jinke,' to the infinite gratification of the rollicking Viennese, at

once flattered and delighted by such uncompromising royal recognition of the irresistibility of their beloved city's seductive capacities. His Majesty, while making the rounds of the suburban dancing rooms the other night, by his personal suite, happened to visit a famous saloon in the Wurstel Prater. Seated in a box, he for some time complacently watched the waltzers and listened to the insidious strains of Strauss. Presently the magic of sweet sounds, bright eyes, and dainty figures melted his royal reserve and subdued for the time his sense of monarchical decorum. All at once he rose, chose him a partner of singular beauty and agility, descended into the ball-room, and began to dance with all the fervour of a southern nature. Greeted by enthusiastic shouts of c Bravo, Majesty!' ' Long live Kalakaua!' and ' There's something like a King for you !' he gave full rein to his long repressed vivacity of temperament, and danced away through the remainder of the orchestral programme until an early hour of the morning. When he at last left the saloon and got into his carnage to return to his hotel, he was cheered to the echo by an admiring crowd, and the ' girls he left behind him,' waved their handkerchiefs enthusiastically as he drove off. King Kalakaua will long blossom in the memories of the Kaiserstadter as by far the cheeriest and least haughty foreign monarch that ever yet abode among them.—London Telegraph, August 16th.