Notes and Events

Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events

Truth, the editor of Which is stated will be attached to the Home Office in Mr Gladstone's Ministry, has a very artful dig at the customs of Society, in the following paragraph :— A singular difficulty aroie in connection with*ttie performances of the troops of drains who have lately been appearing at fine Royal Aquarium. These 'noble 01 savages have eaten of the tree I6f/ fentffafta'g*, and the consequence w"as that I , "like our first parents, " Fuzzy- Wuzzy •'W and Mrs " Fuzzy- Wuzzy >>i:; were ashamed to appear in native costume and go through a native 1 dance before a troiisefed and petticoated audience. They refused, in faot, to give the performance without the sanction of their bishop. Tbe nearest ecclesiastical authority a* hand happened to be Canon ScottHolland. He was called in to adjust the difficulty, and happily succeeded in trahquilising the aboriginal conscience. I regret that I am not able to state the nature of the Canon's. arguments;, but by taking the savages. 'to'; a ''-ballet, or showing them how English ladies attire themselves for, social functions or the Queen^s drawin)g iootiSß, he would have no difficulty $n/'sßr*uadthem that civilisation, find 'clothes - are less indissolubly c6tineote 7 d than they had been led to believe.