THE LATE SOIREE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2919, 31 March 1891, Page 2

THE LATE SOIREE.

to run Enrroit. Sik, —Will yon allow mo a word of e:<pl natio:i with reference to toe charge which vour ('ambridge reporter makes, in to-day's report of the Wesley m soiree, of the lack of usual courtesy to himself. If anyone is to blame, I must take the blame to myself, but I wa« really nob aware that he considered it necessary that a ticket should be scut him. I understood that, as the wellknown representative of your paper, he had the clear and unquestioned entree to our soiree aa a matter of course, aud without any express actiou ou our pari. I regret that the understanding (or mis understanding, if it were such) has deprived botli himself of the pleasure of personal participation iu the enjoyments of last Thursday evening, and also your readers of the benefit ol hij cxtcudcJ report. To supply what ho e.\prosaes his inability to furnish, I may nay that the tables were kindly provided by Mesdamus Xlivlyn, Morgan, R. Keynuhly, Taylor and Walker, whilst Miss M mde Nixon, with the help of toe bachelors, furnished a double table, over which she and Miss Caley presided, l'he supply was, as usiul, most abundant, and most excellent, and ample justice was dona to it by a gathering ot about 100 people. The concert, which followed, 1 do not attempt to describe, not being g'tted with your reporter's musical and deserip tive talent, but 1 may that it appeared to give great and general satisfaction, though considerable regret was felt thai, the Archdeacon .substituted a simple reading for the words ui kindly •sympathy and ('hti:i.iaii fellowship which we had hoped to heur from him. The uof-t proceeds of the auniveraary will be ab' ut £25, anil wc arc under

v>'.iiiiitious 1/j ;ill the friends who iiavo helped to briuy about so successful a ivsult.—Yours obu ii' utly, ■luun 11. PmivSTi.i. ' .'iimbi idjjc, '-L>th March, ISi'l,