Afternoon Tea Gossip

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 102, 14 June 1902, Page 7

Afternoon Tea Gossip

By Little Miss Muffitt.

Hie Austialwin papeis seem to be all tull\ peisiiaded that King Dick, ot New Zealand will completely o\ ei-shadow then ounTob\ Barton at the Confeiencoor Piemieis One of them bluntly sa\- li.ii ton won't be tm-whistle high in an iiichostra. <>t suen,s when Dick &t.uts ni." I heai that Alhed Hill will aime to take up his, residence in WeJlington s>ome time next month. The Sydney Liedeitatel is gomg to give him a good send-on In his late post as choirmastei ot the Great Synagogue he has been succeeded b\ Hen Raimund Pec.liot.sch The\ have got the ping-pong cia^e badl\ in S\dney A leading draper as an advertising draw, started a couple ot youngsters playing the game on a table inside, one ol his largest show -windows, and emplcned a third youth to score for them It drew a crowd big enough to block all traffic in that thoroughfaie • » * Ht'ie is a dipping fiom the Fieemau's Journal," of Sydney which possesses some locaJ interest — ' Mr J Grattan Grcv who has done a good deal ot travelling since his dismissal horn chief-ship ot the New Zealand ' Hansaid" statf, recently armed with his wife in Melbourne where he received a waim welcome at the hands of the Celtic Club " Law \ cis, of couise, aie authorities on men tlnng One has cropped up in Cliu->tchurch who is an authority on wat<i A milkman before the Court told it that he kept his supply of milk stnnding, ni water all m<rht Lawyer Stiingei retoited that he behe\ed tlw 1 water m the milk Surely he would not take the bread out of a poor man, mouth H^s not the only man who '-ells blended" milk I vee that Bio," ot the Obsenea-," has found a subject foi his clever pencil in -ome matrimonial achice recently tendeied to that particular membei ot the House who receives the lion's shaie of notice fiom the Ladies' Gallery N horn do I mean - What a silly question. Win of course, that darling >oung man who parts his hair in the middle and a!wa\s wears a nosy in his button-hole. Mr. Jackson Palmer. Last teflon he was still heait whole, and f ane \ fiee Since then he wanted badly to get awa\ to tight the Boers in South Africa, but King Dick would not let him aro. And Bios picture set** me wondering whethoi in despair of winning martial glon. he has decided to settle down to matiimon\ However, here are the lines to the cartoon — Candid Friend "If \ou would select a good wife, my young fnend you must avoid the descendants of a. ceitain famous woman Susceptible One 'who, of course, is Jackson) I '■hall ceitamh heed your ad \ ice Who was she 0 " Candid Fnend K\ c Aichdeacon CalcTei , of Auckland, has just clone a good turn tor a friend in a difliculn He travelled all the wav to Suva to officiate at the wedding of a biothet cltig>nidn This latter gentleman itheßei H Paeke) is the only Chuich of Kngland clergs'man in the gioup and under the circumstances, avsis unable to mairv himself So he beckoned to Calder, and Calder skipped acio^s the sea and packed the Rev H Pcicke into the holy state of wedlock Mi Thos. Pick, who was, a compositoi in the Go\ eminent Punting Office at Wellington about four years ago was the respondent in a divorce suit up in Auckland the other day Hi& wife, Alice Josephine asked the Court to se\ ci the nuptial tie on the ground ot deseition foi thiee \ears Her maaden name was Conrov and the marriage took place at the Thames in 1884. After that Tom found a billet m the "Herald" office m Auckland Then, he went to Wellington and fiom Wellington he flitted across to Svdne^ where Alice la^t heaid about him. But she did not sink into vain melancholy for the ' Observer" speaks of her as "a lady whose piesence has gladdened many a suhuiban dance m Auckland " At am rate Alice Josephine Pick that was 1* now free to pick another husband, foi tlio Court has listened to her prayer and untied the matrimonial knot

Although I tak< not the slightest mteiest. in i citing T rannoi help noting the fact tint <i hoi ■-<- named ' To-moi-row " woii.i vue tlu. (itlu'i cU\ . I mention it because a ho.n\ old pi o\ ci b f-avs 'To-moi low ih>\ et comes (an a dcM(l juim be hiied ten non-at-tendance Yes easily' Yictonan Chief Justice fined a deceased luryman £^ 2s the othei week, although his limw •papei death notice was handed up to Imn His Huiumi piohablv wondeicd wh\ the p<utieul<us of the death were handed up so piompth, smelt aiat, and the deal deceased duly paid his two guineas into Couit * * * Svdiie\ New^iettei' 1 takes notice of the fact that out own Mi R. B Williams lias been elected Mayor of Onslow , and lemaiks theieupon that it ha,s Ikmicl of people lca\ ma; other trades and pi ofessions to go on the stage, but seldom of a Thespian tinning lauTW But Mi Williams never was a Thespian. He was a Fisk .Tubileo Singer which is eonsulpia.bh different Some of the bo\ s of the Colonial Contingents ha\e aheadv done remarkably well m Sout.li Africa. For instance J. T Whela.n, w lio started into the campaign as a Queensland Rough Rider, is now chief of the Cinninal Investigation Department, at Pietona, and has mained the widowed daughter-in-law of Kruger, a wealthy woman with fine houses and man\ estates. * • • Mi Waltci Gaudin, the nice young man with the stylish cummerbund, who attracted so much of the ladies' attention at the Bowling Tournament in January last, has just been distinguishing himself again. He has won the championship singles, at Gisborne for the third year in succession Mr. Gaudin i,s one of the pioprietois of that live up-to-date papet the Gisborne Tunes " Over on t'other side of the Tasman Sea they aie making satirical remarks about King Dick's cabled assurance that Lords Milner and Kitchener aue the right mem in the right place This is the style of their banter 'Digger Dick ha.s been fne minutes at Pretoria, and lie is quite satisfied that Lords Kitehemei aaid Milnei are the right men in the z^ht place 1 Won't mother be pleased'" Arbitration Judge Cohen, over in Sydney has started to expostulate' about the number of cases they arp rushing before his brand new Arbitration Court. He <-ays it iMi't neceft^a.iv to drag eveiv dispute to the Couit the parties, might come to a friendly agreement Ah \es but wliere would the agitators come m then? Judge Cohen suielv wouldn't deprne them of an honest h\ eh hood ° Miss Maud Hew son the chaining contralto singer, formerlx of Pollaid's Opera Company, is due heie m a fortnight to take a leading part in a wedding ceremonial She has been filling a professional engagement with Mi Harry Rickards But she has been engaged for some time to enter into a life partneiship with a young Wellington dentist and the maniage is to take place immediate.lv on bei ai rival _ * At. the peace icioicings in Dunedin last week Mr. Justice Williams said he would be delighted now the Avar is over to shake bands- with De Wet and many another brave Dutchman, and welcome them as brothers of the brotherhood of the Great Empire to which wo belong He aJso remaiked that before the w ar in the Oi anere Free State there were rather ovei 8000 children at school and while the war was in full progress we, who according to our Continental friends aie such cruel monsters educated mci 13 000 chilchon of our enomI daie&ax lots of people will remember that sweet and cultured contralto winger, Madame Christian, who accompanied the Rev Charles Clark, the elocutional \ lccturei on his first— or waf, it his second '■>- -tout of the colony, over twenty vea,rs ago Well, she is now an inmate of a Roman Catholic com ent over in Sydney And like oui own Sj.ster Mary Agnes, who as Miss McClean was the leading vocalist of Wellington she devotes hoi self to teaching singing to the convent school pupils. * * * How fashionable it is to make fun at Richard's expense' Mi Guinness MH R the othei cla\ in examining a witness in a collision case at Greymouth asked if a man of Mi Seddon's size could have passed between the vehicles S.M Hawkins wanted to know if Mr. Guinness meant a man of the size of Dick befoie or after the Coronation ihe Couit of course, laughed when the magistrate said he would want the width of the whole road when lioioturned. Meie envy as Mr. Hawkins weighs about nine and a-half stone