"Puff" on Augustus Loftus' Bankruptcy

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 31 January 1888, Page 2

"Puff" on Augustus Loftus' Bankruptcy

"^ | Old Augustus Loftus says under * examination that he had to file his shovel through entertaining the Go-. Vernors and other notabilities during the Sydney Exhibition ! What an awful cram, to be sure ! Let's see, how; much was he short ? £40,000 was'nt it ? Why if he'd given a big dinner and a ball every night, he: could'nt hare run through half of it! ; Some of these Governors have a terrifio swallow ! Gargantua's a fool • to, 'em! _ '. " ; '\ \ :''' ' ' ' ' ; "• ;; ; Well, but'oome, there are only six of 'em, counting New Zealand, and our man did'nt go ! So, allowing 'em £10 a day each for victuals and liquor and other sweetmeats, that's only £50 a day, or say, £1,500 for the month they were there! Oh, but they'd spend double as much as that ! When a Governor gets on the batto, he's a dwag, I can tell you! Well, double it then! Say £3,000, £5,000, or £10,000! Still, it is'ht much of a bite out of £40,000! It's too thin. Augustus ! It won't wash! Besides, I'm told the entertaining was somewhat awful ! I know a man who went to one of Lord Augustus' Exhibition dinners, and he never got over it! One of the Governors died did'nt hie? • Yes, he tried a long sea Voyage, but he succumbed on the way Home! His Excellency V last words were, " D— — - that 18s claret!" . /;. „ , I should think it would rather take the gaiety out of these Vice-regal hospitalities in" future' for the ftietin* guished guests to feel that their noble host -may go broke presently, and plead their swilling and guttling as the cause oil his bankruptcy ! . The best plan would be to have a regular tariff of charges, and each Governor or other swell to pay his Bhot weekly ! ; Or else to return to early colonial babbits and customs ! Steak and onions out of a frying-pan on a leather jacket, and a billy of Orange Pekoe dways simmering over the fireetick.