"RINK" AND "SMELL."

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 89, 5 November 1879, Page 2

"RINK" AND "SMELL."

My friend Maeginnis, who has just, returned from a visit to the Cathedral City, where lie has been commingling with the aristocrats of that most exclusive circle,gives me. the laleat littls bit u£ scandal, which is too good Lo be lost, so I have rescued it from obscurity. It would appear that m the City of the Plains the varied distinctions of caste are as binding as the laws of the Medes and the Persians, and Mrs. Dr. Di Renzi Brown, who starves on £200 a 3 - «iir, would just as soon dream of putting a bill m the window of " Lodgings to Let " or " Washing and Mangling," as recognise Mrs. Murphy Smith, whose husband iias a balance of £10,000 at his bankers. Some short time since the City Council called for tenders for removal of the night soil of the City, and the successful applicant was Mr. Blank, an- eminent contractor whoso name to a cheque for fifty thou, would pass current any day. A few days afterwards Mrs. Blank and her daughter called upon a poor but distinguished member of the eletite — as we say m the classics — and upon being shown mto the mistress of the house, was received with — "I presume you are travelling for your husbandjs 'firm ; but T regret your visit has been either too early or too late, as the Major has had ( lie closets cleaned last week." Poor Mrs. 81.-ink was so astounded with the " refined, ho-pUality" which she experienced, that she did not think of taking her visiting crrrd from the table where she had placed it on berenlry, but the tiny pasteboard was safely restored to her next nit^iluiug— by post.