MRS GORDON-BAILLIE. Her Career in Christchurch.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 3

MRS GORDON-BAILLIE. Her Career in Christchurch.

Contimud from Wrrfm^lni/s i\uu. Uufc the Sur\uy Oflieo wore so blin^-, ol so icd-tapish, or so'wedded to conventionality, that they throw ditheulties in the way-. They needed identilication of (he singer', wile and the line lady, the champion of the crotters. The singer was m Melbourne, so a trip thither was determined on ; nothing could be better than the identitieation an o\-husbaml could h;i\c fui nishcii. In the meantime time had :doni>. The day's bu-ine>s (inched a du\c to Sumnor, or out into the subuibs, with the lady companion, was one of the amusement-* such charitable woik demanded. In Ihe evening a look-in at the "Mikado' 01 l% lolanthc, ' a- neees-ai\ ice) cat ion atki toil. A famous theatneal manauer tell the ioiee of the ladj's blandishments, and t ho^e laH enjoyments cost her nolhuxj. But other ihinj^s did, and the pioMcici-. theifot soon demanded payment. ConlonBaillie had not tho family cmlit which IJeeky Shai p manipulated hi astutely . and tilings i cached a climax .soomci. While tho late -Mr Maeandiew wa- ha\in>; his national ieehnifs \\ diked on, while Sir Kobe! t Stout and Mi IJallamo who ha\in<; 1 hon empathies aioiwd, ami Sir Julius Voxel's I'islKiie* A- t was beinn studied, the tradesman u'.ew nil patient. The cabman u ¥ ndeud hi- ac c unts. the Kindlon! pill lie badifls m, the uiocti, the bulchir, and i\w wine mci chant is^vu-d •-uniiiion^es, ami, io be biief, the iinaueial ([ue-tion ln.c.um inn-1 ir.e-^sinir, P>ut as Bcek\ Sli.n p had hci \'U!ni|s standln s, mi had (uiitiun-Hadlu . How tiu\ weie come s)> i-< noi the ipii-iiun ; hut theie \\Lie piciuies o\ undoubted ex< clli'lH i" m liei po'sf--,ton, liKijXinlH tnt atid tu-tly dieses by Woith and Kate Kile> The lattei weie -old - 01 M>me ot '.hi'ci loi orlie's uinaiu In it, (i'>t'"-> ii in in, to tin- d,i\, lnttu^stm^ Mienientoi «. ot a i iteei which w i 1 piob.il>l\ iiuni-li t'.ie uou'hst, the juuinalist. and (hi nmiali-l with mm h " cops ' ot \.u ) lvt 1 de-n • - ol woith and inteie-t Phe die— e^. \\i's t \, w etc sold, ami on the pietnp, s and ot Ik i >_;o >tl H'i'iiiil\ , moiii'j was iai-oil hj book oi etook. Theeldcils lady, Ihe < ompamon, was tm ni-hed b\ (he cliuiili people Inn, who knew htr, with in loduriioii-, whnh tloattd iho athi'iitnio" and hci dupe in the clciicil woild ot Melbourne, and the -tail wiv nude H'>w things wue "on the othei -ide is t.uily know.i Tasinanawas exploitul, and the olneialirifued th>> tnend •)( tin- thilhi- o\)\.n aimed. Only the f.ua^c bme.iuei ie\ ot New Zealand weto not ie-pun-i\f The bitleme— ot tone tow aids thi> (olum ,u the " Tall Ma'l (ia/i tt< ¥ intcniew is thus perhaps explained What bee am* ol the unfoitunaie *ldcil\ ki>l\ i- not qmte known. Theie aie -'oiits to t!u cll< et that, filled a\ uh < h.'iinpi^nc and ih.iir'i') at tin iadun o! In r schi iius, the othei tell upon hi i with lepniaihe- and with < onUiiiirh in Melbourne, and that the \ril at leimth t< 11 fiomtho^e euiiou-h iluiitabh and ( ledu lousl\ old eu- The lime it unuined o\ei them' is \e"t anothei pi oof ot the iinu-ual and pow ci ot In i w ho-e fa-i mat ionplaced it tfeie with m >n\ otheis In ion the ino'c pcneti.itinur ua/( ot ina-cul'iie be lie\eis in the mi-Mon ot " that im oiii,i,ii.ilhl woman, ' Mis (loulon Hailln 1 -- % 1 \tttlto,. I Tme-.