The usual foreshore dispute drags along its slow course in the same old way, some of the actors only being changed. It is of course a British firm which is claiming ri-Parian rights never before disputed, and which the recent decision in Messrs. Ferrusson's favour would have been expected, any ordinary observer, to prevent. any discussion of. So it is, however; one of our loving cousins, "natural allies," ete., etc, is bidding for the foreshore now being reclaimed by the execution of the new Bund Scheme; but his recently burnt claws still tingle enough to make the Dragon dubious, while his puzzled min}, only Intely introduced into the intricacies of barbarian grammar, ponders which of the two should be put in the dative, which in the ablative, the two obviously appropriate cases. our condition, rarely very lively in winter, cannot be called gay; we may be more numerous than of yore, but for one Attic we have more Bmotian colonists; and no society leader comes forward to sot functions on foot. 'The Savage Club alone shows ife; and we have to thank it for avery pleasant ovening last night, yids programme, Miss Patience Powis,' ably played by a young actress who had taken much pains to suggest how she may look in another half coatury, did most to make the ably helped by the Motor, so modelled piece go so smoothly as it did; eho
on one of our local clergy, now absent, that we almost thought he had suddenly returned, as well as by the doctor, and the looks of the bery of charming daughters. OF the farce, I need only say that it kept the audience in ceaseless laughter.
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