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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

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LABICHE AND THE KBANCBTIREURB. The following amusing story of the late Palais Royal dramatist is given in the London Figaro : — During the Franco-Gdrman war Labiche retired to his estate near the village of Sauvigny, where he was promptly appointed maire. One day the übiquitous Uhlans appeared, and riding up to Labiche, the officer thus addressed him : " You are maire oi Sauvigny, monsieur?" "I am," was his reply. "Then let me warn you," returned the Uhtan, " that if you allow the Francs-Tireurs now in the neighbourhood to entrench themselves in this place, I shall be under the painful necessity oi burning the village and shooting its maire !" " But, my dear air," replied poor Labiche, " it must surely be clear to you that I as maire possess no power to prevent anyone -who chooses from entering Sauvigny. Had I possessed such a power,'' he added with a smile, " I hardly need assure you that I should have exercised it to prevent your visit, mon capitaine !" " Quite so," answered the German hussar, pleasantly. " But I am sorry to say that I shall be obliged to shoot you all the same if those Francs-Tireurs do come here and remain." And so saying he put spurs I to his horse and galloped off with his j men. Now the very next morning ! the dreaded Francs-Tireurs actually j did arrive, and Labiche, determined i to save the village — and himself — if possible, at once set off to pay a visit to the commanding officer. He had arranged his plan of campaign over night, and as soon as he came j in sight of the Francß-Tireurp' leader ; he hurried up to him, embraced him j warmly, and exclaimed, "Ah, won j General, you are come to save us, aro j you not? For we are surrounded by hordes of Prussians, let me tell you. There is not a road which they | do not hold in force, except the one i by which you have so luckUy arrived I this very hour." " You are quite j sure of this?" asked the officer, I anxiously. "Positive," cried La- ' biche. '• Then a cheval messieur !" j exclaimed the Francs-Tireurs' leader j curtly, and in less than a quarter of j an hour the whole detachment had '< left Sauvigny, and was hurrying j along the road it had come by as | fast as it could go. So Sauvigny i was not burned by the Germans anu | Labiche was not shot. j Two yearn ago we started our Tailoc'ufJ Dejxirtment, and the venture lian been :i j marked miccess. The advantages we have offered in larger variety and better calm, j have been duly appreciated by the muner- j ous customera of Te Aro House, Welling- ' ton. We have bought largely of Colonial Ticeetls, and have imported quantities of French, Irish, Scotch, and Went of Eiujlaml Tv:eeds, to an extent not attainable by the ordinary tailor, and have placed them in the hands of our customers at actual ir/m/t— sale prices, at Te Aeo House, Wellington. We have made to order a very large number of Oentlemen's Suits and other garments, with an extensive proportion of Boys' and Youtliu' Suits. We are udr/it* at Jilting, and the tcorbnaiuihij/ hua been of superior order. Suits thus well made have undoubtedly worn well, and have swum] v constant recurrence of orders, at Te Abu House, Wellington. Owing to our unexampled facilities for always Becuring the beat goods at the lowest possible cost, to the high reputation of our Cutter, and the excellence of our tailoring staff, we offer advantages not procurable elf ewhere, as a direct result of our Tailoring Department, at Te Alto Houbb, Wellington. I