GENERAL CABLES.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. July 7. The House of Lords bv 1-1 I votes to 3f! rejected the Liquor Control Bill. DONKEYS AND SHEEP. LONDON. June 2<>. The Duchess of Sutherland, who lias taken the initiative in a campaign against “crashers”-—persons who make* their way into halls and receptions without receiving invitations—gave a costume ball at Hampden House Vast night.
The Duchess of Westminster brought a party, of which the women were dressed as babies, and the men, as nursemaids, pushed them in ancient perambulators/ Subsequently the men and women changed costumes and re-entered the ballroom as cocks and hens. The latter laid eggs on the ballroom floor.
One famous society hostess, Air? Dudley Wrad, appeared as n donkey, and the Duke of Sutherland ns a sheep,
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1927, Page 3
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