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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 925, 12 March 1881, Page 4

If Madame Lottie Wilmot is not a humbug, she is a very mean woman. She is a man-thrasher, and a preacher on “ Forbidden Fruit,” “ Hell,” “ The Devil,” and such cognate subjects. Madame Lottie Wilmot evidently delights to draw crowds away from their churches on Sabbath evenings, in the hope that from the lips of a woman they will hear something, if not absolutely nasty, so relatively near to nastiness, so suggestively naughty, as to make it an especial item of attraction. But Madame Lottie Wilmot is a very mean woman notwithstanding. Madame Lottie Wilmot, is, doubtless, a very charming woman — most horsewhipping Amazonians are. We credit her with being able to “draw” immensely on her EvE-like treatment of such a subject as “ Forbidden Fruit.” That is a fine art question which, how to avoid, has occupied the resisting and assenting powers of generations, particularly of the sex whom Madame Lottie Wilmot naturally likes to address ; but Madame Lottie Wilmot is a very mean woman notwithstanding. We can readily understand that Madame Lottie Wilmot understands more about “ Hell,” and is more acquainted with the “ Devil,” than mott of her hearers believe.

Madame Lottie Wilmot is, we doubt not, a good authority on the desirableness of boys and girls coining together and being married, under certain pains and penalties. The popular subject of “ Courtship and Marriage” is, possibly, before all others, one on which Madame Lottie Wilmot is an authority, in either or both branches ; but still we come back to our opinion that Madame Lottie Wilmot, as Madame Lottie Wilmot, is a very mean woman. And for this reason. Madame Lottie Wilmot has written us two or three letters, in very execrable scrawl, and excessively ungrammatical, enquiring as to whether the Manager of McFarlane’s Hall is a responsible and liable person. Thinking that the lady would require to know, before the ordinary course of post, our opinion as to Mr. McFarlane’s responsibility, we wired afifteenpenny ‘collect’ telegram to her Amazonship, so as to expedite her movements, and to ascertain if she was likely to carry out her intention of honoring Gisborne with her presence. The reply was that Madame Lottie Wilmot refused to pay for the telegram, and we had to do so. Therefore (although we always like to speak well of a lady), we say, that, notwithstanding Madame Lottie Wilmot is a most estimable woman; an enchantress ; one in whom the “ Forbidden Fruit ” business sticks out with resplendent unction, she is, nevertheless, a very mean woman.