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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 3

The following item of Victorian gossip is from the amusing letter of 'Atticus' m the Leader: — The ladies of Melbourne have at last started a club.' The married members, of whom a certain number are admitted for the sake of playing propriety, are called cats,- while the unmarried are known to each other by the name of kittens. Gentlemen are rigorously excluded from membership, but periodically a chosen few, who must be passed' unanimously by both cats and kittens, and who, it is to be presumed, must be therefore both -eligible and nice, are given the right of entry. The favored ( youths pass by the name of pugs,- and are privileged to wear the badg§ of membership — a silver ring. At all balls andgatherings, when the youth of both sexes meet for the purpose of dancing, it is incumbent on the pugs that they shall not engage themselves tb dance with strange ladies till' the programmes of the cats and 'kitten's are full. Neither shall any cat or kitten decline to engage herself to any pug for any dance that she had not .promised.' These, I am informed, are the leading principles for the club, tho name *of which is appropriately enough the Kit-cat s Club.