The British Queen.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 139, 19 May 1883, Page 2

The British Queen.

|P0,t.l The denirture of the British Queen from the Queen's Wharf for Lyttelton about 5 o'clock on Wednesday after* noon was witnessed by a crowd of people, and, of course^ the usual amount of good-natured v chaffinc;" was indulged m by the on-lookers at the expense ot the passengers. The Canterbury . contingent of emigrants was brought off Soamea lala,nd by the fiteamfir Waihi, and transferred to the British Queen as she laid alongside the whirf. Antic'pating some fnn the spectators ranged themselves m double columns, so as to provide a free passage from the spot where the passangers landed from the Waihi, to the, gangway of the British Queen, and thus tbe unfortunate immigrants had to run the 'gauntl^ of the amHsing personalities i— -none of them however of an offensive character — used by tbe by-standers. ;To make matters more diverting one of the immigrants by the same vessel, who must have baen an Irish girli from the wealth of her nature, took up a position at the foot of the gangway, and demanded, toll of each of her female | fellow- passengers by snatching a kiss 'as they went on board, much to the envy of the male passengers wljo were allowed to go free. Ihe osculating process naturally created more amusement, but-this was, useless to deter the warm-hearted girt from kissing to the bitter end, which, seeing that there wero about 80 girls to be kissed, may be described as sweetness lon^-drawn out The Nelson and- -"West 'Coast contingent, numbering 30, of iuimigrants were Jtafcen. to their ; deßtinatiQri; by. the steamer ...WaUace, leaving, about the same time, arid among the^e passengers was the/ypung giant , who has attracted so much attention during his stay m Wellington.