ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1387, 24 May 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS.

— The Ball thin eyening, given by the Baohelors of Cambridge promises to be a brilliant affair, and well attended.

— The Ball to be given at the Oddfellowo' Hall, Hamilton East, this evening, in honor of Her Majesty's Birthday, will be an institution entirely new to Hamilton and Waikato.

— Instead of the staid evening costumes of the ladies, and tho Bombre black of the gentlemen, the BCjne to-night may bo expected to resemble a glimpse into Fairyland.

— How delightful it will be for Brown to lose his identity and forget that of his fair partner while he whisper* into her ear such sweet nothings as Lovelace might have whispered to his Delia !

— How gratifying to Jones to look down from his ducal pedestal, dividing bis attention between his burnished sword hilt and the gypsy maiden at his side, doubtful whether he is keeping ouch company as dukes usually affeot.

— And so on ad Difinitum,

— The Stewards deserve that the Ball shall be a thorough triumph.

— They have worked manfully, aud with a will, and the arrangements are thorough and complete.

— By -the -way those invited should remember that they will save the Stewards much trouble by writing on the back of their tickets the name of their assumed character.

— As it is not necessary that one's age be given at the same time, the ladies can have no possible objection to this arrangement.

— For the sole benefit of those who might fail to recognise some of their best friends under their gaudy plumage, I shall still further supplement the lifat given a fortnight ago.

— The members of the Couuis Club have been acting in concert in regard to their costumes, and will, it is understood, play a charade during the interval,

—In which, and subsequently, the stage manager will sustain the part of a middle-aged gentleman.

— The plot is very simple, and the only stage property is a lamp-post, which will be represented by the light comedy man, his head having been glazed for the occasion.

— 0 has secured a costume chiefly composed of #ilt paper, and will go as sunshine and shadow.

— The lady members' will wear costumes of various shapes aud colors.

— If this description seems vagae I am not to blame ; the above is all the information that can be collected,

__,j f W , and P , will represent cricketers or lawn tennis player*, while H , M , and R will affect the zebra-like rig, generallyunderstood to be the copyright of footballers.

— The naval and military uniforms proper to every era and nation will be donned, and Captain Corcoran may be seen in affable converse with my Lord Howard, of Effingham, discussing some moot points affecting the key of the kelson.

— Hannibal and the Iron Duke may be found speculating upon the probabilities of rerial warfare,

— While Clarendon and Cromwell will engage in a disputation about the execution "of Charles 1., who, with an infinity of velvet and point lace, will be calmlynoting the confab.

— Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary, from their corner, will pull to pieces the dress of Zuelika, and remark upon the odioug head-dress of my Lady Montague.

— Let them unjoy themselves.

— To-morrow the real business of life will begin anew, with the pathway freshened with the dewy shower of pleasure of to-night.

—]M ly good music, a good floor, good lights attend them, and may digestion wait behind their chairs, obsequiously, at supper.

— The directors *of the Old Woman in Wyndham-street dearly love a Lord !

— Accordingly in the issue of Tuesday last, uuder the heading " The Detached Squadron," and among the names of officers, I find the following :— •

— Bacchante, 16 guns &c, &c. Captain the Might Honourable Lord Charles T. M. D. Scotfc.

— No Jeames allow me to enlighten your ignorance.

— Lord Charles Soofct is lord Charles Scott pure and simple ; being the 4th son of the Dake of Buooleugh and so designated Lord merely " by courtesy."

— Peers and members of H.M. Privy Council alone, Jeames, are " Right Honourable"

— I notice a great improvement in the eiuging in the Wesleyan Church.

— The tenor has returned.

— And there is still a chance for the Forlorn Hope.

— HaB the Choral Sooiety collapsed ?

*#* — I hear it whispered that it is to be resuscitated if possible.

— * A few gentlemen have expressed their willingness to subscribe if the Society is formed on a proper basis.

•—But jealously - and Hireling "all round " will probably debar, any suoh consummation. ' Pauvbe Piable.