MR RENALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1911, 10 February 1885, Page 2

MR RENALL.

(From the Sydney Bulletin).

Mr. A. W. Renall, of Masterton, New Zealand, is an- antiquarian who has had about three quarter of a century's experience of matrimony; and when the Mayor of the place , gave a luncheon the other day to inaugurate a new handle for the town pump, the boys who had charaUf the feed Bet the gay and festive noster up to propose the toast BP , e Ladies." We quote from the localbutter wrapper—"Mr Renall. said;: I have been called upon to propose'.The Ladies.' It is hardly fair to ask me to give such a toast at my time of life. However, you all know that I have had a fair share of practice among the ladies You may laugh, but some of you might do well to follow my good oxample. When lam asked aboutthe number of my family, Itell the perple that my wife had fourteenchildren and I had 16, (Great cheering, and cries of' How did yoij that, olej 'un ?') Now I willleave youtowqrk qytthe problem. Some of you here are not sq blessed, but the sooner you. mend the better. Jfatr mpiy ljas its risks I jjnq^r: but if you get sucked in l]o'ro ym will b? amply repaid in anathor.place. (Cries of 'Where ? Where"? and' Explain yourself, old man.') The main'thing is tq get your craft and embark j of course, taking your chances of the breezes, Things have ohanged very muoli since 1 first tried my hand, There was divided skirt in those days. All the ladles had on could be hung up on a peg. Bachelors have a little extra trouble before them nowadays ; but, if they take my will get embarked, and never 19! thij voyage. They will then find 11 magnetic influence that will oarry them to the North Pqlo, and that ig about a cardinal point. Bachelorism is a pqor thing, Nobody puts muoli confidence in, baohelors, I'll guarantee our friend the banker there rarely smiles benignantly when a bachelor comes along to woo his favours. I would say once more to tne bachelors present, get married and you'll get your friends to help you along." That's all very well, and its easy saying "get married," but who in thunder has a chance alongside of an ancient "gohanna" like this, who is so reproductive that he turns out, apparently with oase and efficiency, fifteen young Renalls to his wife's fourteen? "And you'll get your friends to help you along," adds this patriarchal freebooter. Oh, no, daddy; not if wo know it, they don't, And we would advise your revorend spjf not tq jntrqdp yqp hoary into m family circle, as we would have you know that we keep a sharpened tomahawk on the premises, with the handle wards our hand, ready for executing first disturber of our domestic peac^ 1 Jo to, Renall "pere"; take a.trip fttah and put in a century or two the Mormons; then eoine back, and tell us a few more, and did, /■