THE COLONIAL BARMAID.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1186, 26 June 1874, Page 4

THE COLONIAL BARMAID.

The writer of "Here and There" in the Otago Daily Times remarks : —The attractive barmaid regards Christchurch and Dunedin as highly desirable places. The dream of her life has been to bring down a squatter ; but the Victorian and New South Wales birds of that genus are either old or cornstalks—both beyond range of her artil'ery—and so she turns hopefully to New Zealand where, she has been told the young runholders may be caught in springes, h'or fun, ' badinage, gloves, and recreation, she dotes on Melbourne ; for profit she selects Sandhurst, Pleasant Creek or Ballarat ; but when the season to sow her wild oats arrives, takes to New Zealand, when she discards frivolity, wears subdued silks, and goes regularly to church in company with a minute prayer-book in an ivory cover. llcr probationary course is at a counter in Auckland "Wellington, if in session, preferred—from whence she graduates either in Dunedin or Christchurch in hope of a fellowship, In her confidential moments she will admit to her Melbourne friends that she is terribly, terribly bored, that the ruuholder to the Collins street jlaneur, is as water unto wine ; that she cannot astonish the Greeks with her panier, nor practise the Kangaroo droop ; and there is no Brighton beach, nor St. Kilda promenade, nor Sandridge Pier for her Sunday out.