Colonial Shobbery.
i; [Post.] -■ -Whan one gentleman entertains another it is not usual for him to pubMsh to all the world the precise cost of his hospitality. Yet this singular coarse^ has. been adopted by certain northern towns f-hathaye recently had the honour of entertaining] his • Excellency the Govprnor. notably* Auckland alid Gisborne, the fi^virfs representing the expenses to .whioh • they were • , put by/ th?ir n'ospiUlitieS ' beina; actually 'teleJgP»CJiSd <-s _aTl_ r s3^gr -M ..tJie^col.oii.-T(r. f qnite" a new departure, and we can only hope that such dn and unmtfh'nerlv proceeding wi'l not grow into : a rule m the colony. It cannot fail to • be peculiarly disagreeable and offensive to the subject of the hospitalities who?* cost is so very , carefully, cpunted .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 159, 11 June 1883, Page 2
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122Colonial Shobbery. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 159, 11 June 1883, Page 2
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