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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 55, 26 February 1876, Page 4

"When Dido found that ./Eneas did cot come, She wept in silence and was Di— do— dum (b)." — Comic Latin Grammar. " A large number of unemployed assembled at t^ie- wharf to rafet Sir George Grey. A banner was stretched across the landing, and calico strips with the inscription, " Welcome, Sir George Grey ! We want -work." But Sir George did not finme." Grahamstown Telegram. Neither in Dido's days, nor in the days when the Comic Latin Grammar was compiled, was the telegraph in general use, and yet how much more terse and to the point is the description of Dfdo's grief than is that of the diggers' disappointment on finding that the man of their choice did not come when he was expected. To be sure, her Royal Highness was awfully spooney on that rollickiog scamp JEaeas, but then the Thames people are equally " gone" on Sir George, and I think we have as much right to know what were the feelings of the "unemployed" on finding . that " Sir George did not come," as we have to pry into Dido's secrets. We are told all about the "banners" and "calico strips " that were stretched across the landing in anticipation of the great man's .arrival, but when he didn't come what then? Did the crowd weep in silence and become diggers dumb, or was the reverse the case, and did they "shout" instead of quietly mopping their eyes? In these days of cableß and wireß we ought to know something more about this. I, at all events shall not rest satisfied until I do. F.