PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Friday Evening, December 2.

Patea Mail, 2 December 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Friday Evening, December 2.

Almost as great a shock as the Bloomer costume, invented for ladies some 20 years ago, is this new lawn-tennis dress suggested for belles of the period who play the fashionable game. This startling “reform” is one more sign that the end of the world is near. The lady who doesn’t want to be handicapped in a game against the men, is advised to abandon the tightfitting dress that limits her agility in lawn tennis, and to try a tunic of white flannel, with roll collar and colored kerchief tied in sailor-fashion, a skirt eighteen inches long (or short), with colored band or belt round the waist, and a pair of—those other things—the what d’ye call ’ems—the continuations, worn loose like the baggy trousers of Turkish beauties. If a lithe young lady doesn’t win the game at lawntennis in those things, she can’t help winning- a husband.

Wellington has elected its Mayor, and he is neither the veteran Hutchison nor the confident Andrew Young, but a person of no particular position as a citizen. Mr Fisher is one of the Hansard reporters in Parliament; and there may soon be the odd spectacle of his vrursiiip thc-Mnpi' nf Wellington Mayor of the Empire City—taking notes in the gallery as an ordinary reporter. Mr Fisher is popular, and there must be good cause for choosing him as Mayor. A Patea G.S., which initials transposed would stand for Silly Goose, advertises in a Wellington journal for a wife. Prospects advertised as good. Photo wanted.

A complimentary banquet in honor of Mr Bryce is being promoted at Wanganui. It is intended, we suppose, as a cordial recognition by his neighbors and friends in this district of the important and timely service he has rendered to the Colony, by vigorous suppression of brooding rebellion up this Coast. That service is of signal value to the Colony as a whole, and of lasting importance to the West Coast from Wanganui northward, The proposed banquet will have more than a local importance. It should bo made representative of the Coast from Wanganui to Waitarn, by invitations judiciously distributed. Wanganui is the most suitable locality for holding such a banquet, owing to Mr Bryce’s local associations. The British Parliament has been summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 9th February. The names of several gentlemen, including Sir Wm, Fitzherbert, who took part in sweeps on the Wellington racecourse, were taken by a detective, and it is probable that informations will bo laid against them. Mr Michael Boyton, one of the chief organisers of the Irish Land League, who was imprisoned on the Bth March last, has been released. The School Entertainment this evening in the Plarmonic Hall will include songs, duets, &c., by well-known local friends, and the new Brass Band will perform selections.