NOTES FROM OTAGO DAILY TIMES

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 20 May 1880, Page 2

NOTES FROM OTAGO DAILY TIMES

* OUR VIRTUOUS WOMEN AGAIN ! r J'lie ferocious virtue of our wo.n'U surrounds tlie path of the unwary male creature with previous perils. We have all rerd in the papers the moving story of what is called the Wainiafe kissing case. A Mr Price encountering a Miss Johnstone, a young lady of !>is acquaintance, wandering alone in the stcet at night, gallantly volunteered t>

escort the errant damsel to According t. his own story, given on oath b.dore the raising his iirm to l ; ft she latch garden gate he inadvertently g r the lad\'s shoulder. Miss J O j M, whose experience •aa * UHinaru Hotel had respecting the perfidious ways of tfjeh} ? • imagining her honor assailed, fled into the house in an excited condition, took ccunse. with Kerlrv&\* r \msrj&t*fay t 'i summoned Mr Price for attem ting to tra'ros,' aking a.;:P'3^^- v ;j s%*■' Price's costs. Did the money" go as f» solatium to the lady ? Probably-it did, an lif so we can understand better remarkable fact that within a few days in*: 'attempt at unlawful kissing .was?KK> imported from the neighbouring township : of Timaru. AMr Griff called upon a Mrs Allpress to collect some rent due to him, and, finding the lady not ready to pay, incontinently kissed her. The magistrates before whom the case was brought, apparently njt thinking it likely that the tiansports of a landlord on being refu-ed his rent would take this particular shape, dismissed the information. Mrs Allj ress, thereforej nut only did not get her Lo, but was costs out of pocket. The latest kissing story comts from Milton. A gentleman took a lady ont for a drive. Propinquity an! the stimulating ozone of the plains betrayed tie excursionists into an indiscretion of which the consequences were both surprising and tragical. The driver leaned over towards his companion his object— A kiss,snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid—the sidelong maid, coy, though not austere, lean d over to evade the pursuit of his lips, and their tinted weight capsized the vehicle. B.—The lady, according to the paper, was-^,_■; q not to put too fine a point upon it-?-somewhat stout). Having both kissed the dust, they picked themselves up to observe the horse careering towards the horizon with two broken shafts attached and to find tha remaining portion of the trap of no further immediate service tc> them. The mora, of these stories m obvious. Kissing, as now conducted is a game which isn't worth the trouble. Never convey a lady at night unless she has first plaeed in your hands a five pound note as • aution money j never collect rents from lone females except under the protection of a policeman * r and, above all, never kiss a lady m a trap unless she will consent to meet you half way.

POOH OLD DIZZY BEACONSFIELD !

Tin more one pointers the Beacons—field defeat, the more amazing and portentous (tees it appear. It is more I han a defeat, it is a revolution, not so much for the magnitude of the change, as for its suddenness. Surprises are not common in the open atmosphere of British politics. Approaching change is indicated pretty correctly by the barometer of tie press long before it happens. It is in countries wheie the press ismiiEzhd that conspiracies and revolutions hatch themselves, and that governments have learned the cheerful saying that it is always the unexpected that happens. The unexpected has at hst ~f The Government pursuing its prosperous course with ail sailsspeacLto thVwind, has been taken flataback by a total chang? of wind, and tbe masts have been whipped out of the ship. Lord Beaconsfield was under-fl no compulsion to dissolve —did it of his >$ own motive, thinking to strengthen majority and get a new lease ot power, ■! encouraged doubtless by Conservative A victories in the by-elections of Liverpool A and Southward which seemed to. show ■ that the country was more than ever with him. A week before the disso'ution the World, a society paper reflecting London club opinion, had an article : | headed " The Liberal Collapse," and ! condoling with the party on its hopeless ( condition. Within a month the people . ; went to the polls, and the Liber.-1 majority was over 100. I infe* three things, first, that seven-years Parliaments—the House was in its seventh year—may get fatally wide of public : opinion; second/that by-elections are no sure test, being often decided on ; personal grounds; and. third that somehow the press hasn't got its finger exactly upon the national pulse. The last seems incredibte, yet, as a matter of ; , :y fact, no paper in England had the -..« faintest notion of the true temper of the 4 coiistitwMiciesW the roll has ■:* i» A factor for which a.iownnce was made was tin; popuiar* ■= Hi-ntim. nt that the Ins had had a very 'good innings indeed, a,-.d that the Outs ought to Vet a tnrn. The Athenian voter who cast his oystershell—thtv ~ ballot paper of the period—for expelling Aristides because he was tired of hearing - him called » The Just " was not so . very unreasonable. P.-ople do g ett ™&J^ i even of the most successful ! and certainly have got tired, of. Lord « Bonconsfield's fifce imperial ways-. dotf't cease to admire or respect but they want a change, Dizzy W'W iusily eonr.lam oi the suddenness- .and-fl-Vigour of his dismissal- He imay say ||;| to his ungrateful country— . . L , £ . Perhaps it was right to dissemble youMov But-why did you kick me downstairs ? }.■>££&% Then cent election is a kicking dowtP|M stair*.,- neither more or less.