STANDIING-UP A LANDLORI

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 723, 3 February 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

STANDIING-UP A LANDLORI

THE DEVICE OF TWO ENGLISH BHABPEEJ :_-: OBTAIN Jl GOOD DINNEB. ..'.'-.» An elegantly, dregsed man recently eni* the / fashionable^ • and very expej: Clarendon Hotel restaurant, m Log and called for, a.jdinner <Jf rare and c( viands, with su^i choice of approp wine to accompfiiy the courses as besj him a thorough toon. • vivant . of uhfcj ' meled means. .It/was served and < ample justice to by him, and just as d( was placed before Mm another. man enti the restaurant and engaged m a mysi ous conversation .witibi the proprie The last coiner, s^id that he was connei withjthe police, 'and had come to arr/ per%qn traced there by} a datective. . proprietor repelleci .with haughty dijf the supposition that anybody liabl arrest should enter his establishment, testing that none but persons of the ] est respectability ,, were his guests. 'ITndoubtedl^-my dear sir,' rej the professed police, agent, • ' but Ia; m pursuit of a vulgar thief or swi The man I seek is a political offer* importance. See, here is his desci read it and see if it is not that oft tleman drinking wine at that table. , The, landlord read. wYes! y exclaimed : It is, indeed; that of/ tleman now finishing the last gl? second bottle .of champagne.' ' He seems to be a connoisseur f It's a pity that he does not cl .self, to .them and leave politics i ' Permit me to make a sugge the visitor. ' He has evidently 1 ing heavily, and his head is affected by it. Knowing his, position as he . does, he will $ attempt resistance to his arrest,, he is armed. At all events, foii of your house, it is best that w scene and a scandal by effeetin/ outside. Suppose you tell hi friend Lord Graham wishes to k his carriage at the door., Then,^,^ comes out; we will nab him.' -- _^.\ The v landlord respectfully delip»»^^r message as suggested. '' -' Lord Graham !., You don't tell mi exclaimed the diner, as he helped himsi to a choice cigar. 'What can .he we with, me? Only to offer me his box Drury Lane to-night, I presume. JSTev mind— l will see. I have now only coff to take to finishmydinner. Bekind enouj to order it for me, to be ready whe] return.' ; He stepped to ( thedoor and the polio* agent arrested him m the name of t: , Queen, pushed him into a hack m waitii and drove away. After a shilling ride, tl bon' vivant and his captor alighted, di .charged the hack and separated, with tj ■understanding that on the succeeding di their comedy should be re-enacted m son other, hotel.— r[Bostjn '*. Courier.'