THE CLAIMANT IN HIS NEW SPHERE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2029, 9 July 1885, Page 4

THE CLAIMANT IN HIS NEW SPHERE.

.A mono the thcntiic.il Rtais who have returned to London foi Faster, after a more or less tiiumphal tour of tlie piovmces, it would lv unp.udonable to tnke no note of tli<- rising player who liat> been making Ins niaik in the famous cha racter of Sir .Roger Doughty Ticlilioine, Bart. " Tno Js'otoiious Claimant" was how he figiued in the bill; and e\eiywhere the engagement was " at enounous expense." £100 or £200 a week was announced as the sum, and for this the distinguished, artist had to do fifteen minutes' walk round nightly. That is to say, he was allowed a tjuai Lit ot an hour to explain who lie war ; and it is now amon-; hia coinji'ainta that the time was too short. Just as he was waiming to his work he hod to make way for the greatest hdy high Licker on earth or the champion clog dancer. As a vaiicty entertainment, one i egrets to say, the Claimant would thus seem to have been but a modified success. It is a melancholy confession to have to make ; hut the fact is that the audiences did not think there was enough of him, and have lescnted his diminution io bulk. He dnves about in a beautiful chariot, but people do not come to their windows to look at him His addi esses have not loused the nation to the point of demanding a Royal Commission of lnquiiy into his heart rending c«f>e ; and he is tabng longer than he had hoped to fill his scrap-book with Press notices Since his re appearance in London it hih been noticed that the face of the gre.it and only Claimant is not happy. Why should theic be ring-* round the eyes of a gentleman making Ins hundied 01 two hundred pounds a week ' (A hundred more or less is immaterial). Al.is, Sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, Bart , is now an aitist with all the aspirations of his class, and the joung lady in what •he calls boys' clothes who precedes him on the progiamme is encored six times nightly. Can it be thac the only nobleman on the music hall stage is jealous of the masher king —.St. Jame's Ua'ette.

WOMKV AMI TfiK Rfc\ OfA Ml.— The use of the revolver l>y women to avenge rc;il or supposed grievances is, says (f.ili^nnni, becoming general. I)r(j| , residing in the Rue Lafayette, Paris, had ainaid-sorvnntnaincd Louis Cliarot, whom lie dismissed, as he was not satisfied with her seivicei. She left vowing \ enhance, at which he took no notice. The next day a messenger culled to ask him to go and see a person who was aeriously ill at 24 Rue do Dunkirk. Mo went to tin- apartment indicated, and on the door In nig opt m d to him he foii'id himself in the picsence of his Lite domestic. She imnirdat»'ly fired two •hots of a rrvohci at him. One Indict only gia/cd hn car, hut'tho othui passed through hii left thigh. Ltutt Tknnii — t'eitaiii oiiginal qunlitien arc icqumte to the composition of a good lawn tennb player -h»ud, eye, and actiuty to wit ; given these, and there still lemains tlio essential of piactice ; and those who can devoto the mo-it time to the latter detail, being alieady gifted With the formir leijiiiiementi, soon develop a class of play which is as far ahead of ordinary play as the speed of the racer ih to that of the huntei. Those who cannot alibi d to make a study of the game are not, a Una pan/nut, in the hunt with those who can. Tlie days seem to ha\e passed away when a country curate, or a him 11 in the .Stock Kxchange, or a competition-wallah on holiday could hope to aspuc to champion honoui.s. These aic lcsei ved for a few young men who can afford time to play all the year round, Sundays included when required, nnd migi it«j to the sunny ltiviura to ke i> then h tml and eye in while Biitiih lawns arc sodden nnd unplayable, and days are •hort in onr northern latitudes.— St JftineV Gazette. bIKAVOr iNSUnOKUfNATION — Who IMS not experienced a »ort of malady when .ill lh<fniijlliti irrm in rcliHlinn. and 1 ilmur M ablolutf ly impoMible - ft is .1 condition of nones and Horn ich and bium th.it can onl> br cured bv thpu3cofth.it irresiitlble remedy, Ami ncan Co s Hop Bute " Re. d,