AN INDIGNANCE OFESSIONAL.

Inangahua Times, Issue II, 18 February 1880, Page 2

AN INDIGNANCE OFESSIONAL.

* — _ A lafe is-ue ol iJie London Kra contjiins tiip most amus tig le'ter we |»hv> "fen for a lona time. Hint journal, c. m m^ntiDg 09 the performance of a M-.s-s

Nevara, at Margate, |>raise.l her very i highly, hut there was a but ia the butter. I Her par', trying as it was. was played with «rea» ability. The lady's appear* fjuce wa« n «t much in her favour, bu« this ' was fully compensated for by her refined el, cutiou. her true perception of the .■haracter.' an.l a number of other virtues. Her husband writes to the Era— • y.-ur is-ue of hst week contains a falsn and most maliii .us libel upon my wi<e Miss Nevara. V v say that the lady 1 * appearance Was nut mus«h in her favour, 'ban which a tnnre utter falsehood was nvvt't printed. There is not a shadow of zcuse for such a sh:imeles« allegation. On the contrary, I (who was sitting in 'he stalls) heari the people in the pit 'ir»w th"ir breaths and say ' Ts she not Heaati'ul ?' Others said, 'She is jnst ! ik<* »ti aiifffl.' To do as you have done is t" it j-ire Miss Nevara's prospec's in her profession most seriousl- , and entitles her ♦o claim very hpavv damages from yon. F call uion yon thereftre to give nn tie n»ime of 'his most rowardlv and most malicious slanderer, and on Wednesday T shall coaie to London and instruct fry solicitors. The jnrv have only to look tnio the face of Miss Nevara in order to >ec— stamped is every lin^ of it — t eaufy of a very high order, and talent such as has not b°en seen oo the stage since the days of Mrs Siddons. Ask Mr Wills, dramatic author, 16 the Avenue, and 16 Fulhara-road, what he thinks of ler appearance? And he will tell you that he could have got her in at t?>e K^al Thea're, but that she was too heau'iful "or the manageress to permit of it. .As we walk in London, and as we do so here, men and women turn round and stare at Miss Nerara. . , . She has eye-* just like a gsze'le, and a natural color just li ! 'c that of a pech, and I (who car* •i«'d off the pr ; z j for anatomy in the Unirersitv of Edinburgh) tell you that I hare never spen so splendMly proi»or« ttoned a figure. Ask Mr John Ryder what he thinks ; and a-k him, also, whether he knows any one who wiH less timely submit to an act of injustice than will the gfrand««nephew of the late Joseph Hume, M.P. P.S.-.I forward three newspapers, not one of which dares to say what you have done.' Did the genius of Dickens himself conceive anything so dr 11 as this? And if it had dune so, would it not have been pro* nounced extravagant and exaggerated ? To Mie gr»nd«nephew of the lite Jb«epli Hume, M.P., I am sare our readers will acknowledge a debt of a p a'i'ude. Asa speninjen of indignant letter- writing, this composition bea's that of the gentleman who would not live in the Cromwell road all to nothing. It is not the immense number of fools that strikes one so much as the in>m o n«e size of ih»m.