WAYSIDE NOTES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 172, 12 March 1878, Page 3

WAYSIDE NOTES.

(by an occasional contributor.)

It is some time since I troubled you, Mr Editor, but one or two things have, as our Yankee friends say, eventuated lately, upon which I desire to dilate. lam not much of a boating man myself, in fact a boat is, with the exception of a mustard bath, about the last thing I should get into ; but what puzzles me is, how owners of good boats can let them, simply for want of a little care, go to rack and ruin. There is lying now, by the Government wharf, a really good four oared skiff, -which will soon be spoilt, if left in the place and position that it is in at present. Telephoning is the order of the day, and some rather ridiculous contretemps have resulted from its being practised- by children and others in the open streets. The other day a friend of mine, who is somewhat inclined to corpulency, \s*as on the point of turning round tbe corner of a certain street in this town, when he heard a little boy say " Coo 00-ey." Just at that moment my friend turned the corner, and was butted violently in the stomach by a little boy, who was exclaiming, " Did you get that ?" I have reason to believe that the answer was in the affirmative, and that tbe little boy got it afterwards. Another thing I would like to draw attention to is, the reckless way in which people ride through the streets of this place, after dark, when it is absolutely impossible for those on foot to see them till the horses are, as it were, right on top of tnem. A little more thought and care exercised in this matter in the future may be the prevention of an accident. I am told, but won't vouch for the truth of it, during that very dark and stormy night last week, a stranger, visiting Akaroa, went to post a letter, and in approaching the verandah where the letter box is, came into collision with the telegraph post, at which he immediately kicked out as hard as he could. The next minute a human form lay on the ground, and was heard to mutter —"Hardisht leg ever kicked in all my life."