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Dunstan Times, Issue 1007, 5 August 1881, Page 2

The fortunes of Ayoub Khan in Afghanistan are in the ascendant. Tn some amazement, apparently, at the prominence assumed by Mr T, S. Weston since his arrival as an M.H.B. in Wellington, the “Southland News” devotes an amusing article to trying to discover how it has come about. Mr Weston practised in Invercargill many years ago. lie is described as having been a ‘ 1 miniature Beau Brummcl,” with a “ Lah-de-dah ” stylo of address, “ mincing his r ‘sontences,” and taking a long time to say very little. “ Beau Brummel’s special source of pride was in cravats ; Weston’s was in his mouchiors, or pocket handkerchiefs, which were of the finest cambric and delicately perfumed, so that when he produced one it was like a whiff from ‘Araby, the Blest, passing through the close and stuffy atmosphere of the old Court, laden, ns it usually was, with the breath and other exhalations from a damp crowd of the unwashed. Pope, was it, that spoke of the dandy skilled ‘ in the nice conduct of a clouded cane 1 ? Had ho been priviledgod to see Weston in Court, ho would have made immortal his artistic manipulation of tho snowy, embroidered cambric."