FETING COLONIAL VISITORS IN LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

FETING COLONIAL VISITORS IN LONDON.

The following, from Punch very aptly describes the manner in which Executive Commissioners of the Exhibition have been lionised : — Monday! — Really since Mr Augustus Harris set the excellent fashion of entertaining us, the hospitality has grown almost oppressive, Was a teetotaller when I left Australia. Obliged to give all that up. Alight cause off«nce. Engagements for this day. Ltxnch with Bishop of London! Ditto with. Managers of Public Banks. Ditte with Managers <Tf Private'Bauks. How shall I eat the nine dinners to which I am invited ? I catinot possibly say. ,H6wevec that may be, I shall certainly take supper with Mr . Jienry Irving. Tuesday, — Rather shaky. Yesterday seemed to be. eating and drinking from morning to night. How shall I manage th(j dejeuners with the Lord Mayor, Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Directors of the Peninsula and Oriental Company, I can't say. Manage pretty well now with my dinners. For instance to-d,ay I shall take my soup with Lord Rosebery, fish with Drapers' Company, (ht>cn with Directors of London (ieueral Omnibus Company, the Trustees of the British Museum, and T. H. Bolton, M.P., icpresenting the Directorate of the Royal Westminster Aquarium: The other hosts must be satisfied if I turn up with the sweets oc at Hesserfc. Shall certainly look in for supper with Henry Irviug. Wednesday. — This is the second time I have not been to bed-r-twe days con* secutively I Supper with Irving most delightful. To-day's arrangements, six lunches, twejxe dinners. * Well, I think I can piece them in bomehow. The only thing Ih.vt bothers me ia how I can catch a. " chain p;igui' tea" with Mr William Holland .it the Koyal Albert Palace, and *' lafco Inv.ikfa&t ' with the Snrveyor-Gener.il ,of thu Ordnance at Queen Ann's Mansions, at one and the same moment. Alter dinner engagements I shall look in at Henry's for supper. Thursday. — Another day without any rest! Don't know how I shall stand it I Really very tiring, but have'nt got time for bed. Saw famous doctor, who advised me to eat — not to drink. ("Had of this, as formerly was a teetotaller, and since I have been g"oirig about I am afraid I have been seeing blue rats. Don't like the sympton, as delirium ,

tremens is hereditary in my family. However, no more rats— only food. See pany with Cardinal M-nn-ng, Mr ii-uu-x.-SL. Vjie,-lUe Duke, C*mbr>dge, Mr Wh-stl-r, the artist, Sir Arthur S-11-v-n, Mr DOylyjOrtoVtjie W. <$. H. Sp rg-n, the Rajah of Jitf-ft, ancTMr .X. Ju^ XUe, Jn-thc^aef*tsalc~jrftonuAt .theLyceum), and he told mo that, to get through all my. Engagements, I should nqver gat ; only ' (Irink. Shall try it. Thirty- three, engagements for to-day ! Well, ( shall (ake advice. No eating all that Inave' macfe' appointment for supper with Parry living, Sit'day.-V'y f'tigued!. Shall go-to-