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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2274, 5 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Prima Donna in the Far West sometimes receives very odd tributes from her admirers. When Miss Minnie Hauk lately sang at a remote town in Montana, oue enthusiastic gentleman sent her two gold nuggets, another presented a silvermounted bear's tooth, a third contributed a Sioux war bonnet found on a famous battle-field, and the most devoted admirer yielded up his greatest treasure, an Indian's scalp. The experiences of the "Earl of Lonsdale " with his ballet girls in America are drolly related by him:—"When these eighteen girls landed I felt myself responsible for them. They clung to me, and we walked to a street car. Luckily it happened to be empty. In we walked. Poor things ! We drove to the boardinghouse quarter, and walked a good half mile. 1 soou felt that if I didn't domicile them I should die, and my death would not be natural. One of the girls said she'd go back to England to-morrow, and that she had never seen such a beastly country in her life. Another saw a crowd outside Wallock's and wanted to Know if all the theatres played on Sunday, A third eat down on the sidewalk, and said that she was so tired she didn't care where she went. Oh, the trouble tbat we had! Fancy, eighteen girls on my hands at the same time! People stared at us, and I suppose they took me. for a Mormon elder with my newly arrived brides. We went to several places and they were all full. The girls looked at mo piteously. I finally managed to dispose of some of them in <i hotel, and some in a boardinghouse.*.