A RICH INCIDENT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 781, 6 April 1877, Page 4

A RICH INCIDENT.

It seems tbit at the ball to the Governor lately the gentleman who had the general direction of the reception arrangements thought the ball would be incomplete without a master of ceremonies, and accordingly appointed to that office a youth, not unknown to Reef ton and Lyell, of the name of “Teddy Clemens.” On the vice-regal party entering the ball-room and taking up a position to opan the dance, the music struck up, when the redoubtable “Teddy” cried out, “Top lady and bottom gent swing in the centre.” This piece of direction, it seems, was not acted upon with sufficient alacrity, whereupon the indefatigable “ Teddy,” who had taken up a position at the elbow of his Excellency, gave the latter an unrriistakeable push forward. The Marquis, instead of driving ahead into the aims of his lady vis-a-vis at the command, turned round and looked unutterable things at the diminutive M.C., bnt “Teddy” was not to be “put away” by oven the darkest of the vice-regal frowns, and accordingly took no notice of his Excellency, but repeated the direction in a much louder tone of voice. At this stage his Excellency beckoned to bis aide-de-camp, and a few minutes later “ Teddy” was quietly yet ignominiously “ ecruffed” out of the room, flow the dancing got on without “Teddy,” history does not relate, but he having declined to leave the precincts of the ball-room until he was paid his fee, obtained the amount .andprocoeded to have a “fly roust}.”