CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1226, 8 May 1880, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — If, as I am informed, the proceeds of the perfonnauce advertised to be given by the " Comus Dramatic Club" are to be devoted to paying the debt on the band instruments, it might have a beneficial effect on the attendance if it were definitely so announced, as there is still a lively recollection in the minds of some people that the last concert, promoted and supported for the same purpose, but advertised, as this is, in aid of "band fund," did not result in lessening the debt on the instruments. — I am, &c, Stradivarius.

Fokgeming Herself. — At an evening party one lady was very bitter in referring to an absent acquaintance, of whom she said vehemently that there was not such another for everything that was unladylike or unwomanly. "Sh-sh, my dear," whispered a friend to her, " you are forgetting yourself ."

The Young Spread Eagle.— " When the young man of the period," saya a Francisco paper, "the gay matineemashar, the cigarette-puffer, desires faintly to express his emasculated sense of love or admiration nowadays, he no longer raps out a string of United States' linguistic lightning-iods, but faintly ejaculates, ' fcay, look at her ; isn't she a daisy, ? She breaks me all up, paralyses me, aud, makes me tired !' "