The coming season promises to be a gay one though the bottom has dropped out of the dollar and business generally has gone to the deuce. 'The usual St. Andrew's Ball will follow the King's Birthday dance at Government House; there is every prospect of a St. George's Ball; the Ladies' Recreation Club are got ting up a subscription dance; and there is table of a Volunteer and even.a Freomasons' Ball. Of dancing the ladies cannot have too much, and they usually get. their way, though their lords vote it all a horrid bore.
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