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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 29, 12 February 1879, Page 2

A ' few' month* ago. Miss Jones was' tinknown outside the walls of the Wellington* College; to-day she ~is th* most talked of , lady in New Zealand, and from the depth* of obicuritj she lias leaped up to the height' of notoriety. I sympathise! yith her in having to* run the gauntlet of, the pubiio gaze in thePoliceCourtv bufel am .now abme- ' what inclined to think the ordeal was hot! so. distasteful aa one would be led to suppose'. There is nothing absolutely wrong in a lady besoming a lecturer, but in her caa©;she h>a hot .experience to prompt the step, and inaccepting' an engagement with the proprie- 1 tor of the Arctic Panorama, if ia quite eri- ! dent she was willing to trade upoii the notoriety she had obtained. It is quit© certain tha^iar withdrawing his wual lecturer'to >; 'make room for Miss Jones, Mrl Care^ toolc the step as" a matter of 'bujiheaa, ifteriafefully calculating its effect as a draiir; an! while I can- compliment .him "upon hit, shrewdness;! regret that it should be jit'tnev expense of Miss Johe»7 who»ej sejujturenmcand- womanly delicacy •nffer^ui: the trani^ action. ■• - ""' : ••* " ■'■*■•'•