THE LOITERER IN KUMARA.

Kumara Times, Issue 284, 1 September 1877, Page 2

THE LOITERER IN KUMARA.

The Hospital Art-union Committee deserve the thanks of their, subscribers for the amount of pleasure they have given by their repeated postponements , °f the drawing. It has long ago been admitted that the pleasure of anticipa-tion-exceeds that of realisation. The committee have prolonged their pleasure for the subscribers for some months, and apparently are prepared to prolong it indefinitely for the future. A little longer delay will entitle them to s >y, “ Gentlemen, you have had full value for your money; we shall not hold the drawing at all.” If you want to put a stop to dogs fighting yon are sometimes recommended to. throw cold water, over them. A lady in England, a short time ago, thought to impr »va upon this plan. She threw scalding water over two men who were fighting in her yard. My infornuttou does not say, what success h n* experiment had with the two men. She herself, however, was locked up by the police. The Kumvtu Tcmss. the o'dier day. ann >u.i v'd r.h it “Tunvuian ir >u ni-n arc ih .it 1 v c Histructi* 1 i i M-l- 1 Ixnrie.” W ut hqnv digestion the j '•lelb .tjen'-f i)ir»!e 'n t<fc hive if thuvcvi j dispoio of suih pas'ry. I tried a uni - |

ton pie some time ago just before going to bed, and the night-mare I had afterwards has made pies of all kinds lose their savour with me ever since. A certain doctor on the West Coast has an exalted opinion of the übiquitousnesss of his fellow-practitioners. A patient told him that he (the patient) had consulted a medical man in Queensland. “There are doctors in Queensland are there ?” said he, “ yes and you’ll find them in ”he mentioned a place which is supposed to possess a much hotter climate than that of Queensland.

It is a pleasure to meet a man of general information. Such a one was he who, the other day, said “ Cap a pie” was one of the gods of heathen my thology. O’Hara Lake is doomed. I shall soon look upon it for the last time. Perhaps I have already done so. » It will be a great loss to the lovers of small talk.

.... They will rib longer be able to say " On Thursday night a man was nearly drowned in o‘Hara’s lake. He fell down in it, and his hat floated away from him. Both hat and man were recovered with difficulty.” “ A man, with a wooden leg, got stuck in Ohara’s lake yesterday morning. In his straggle to extricate his leg from the mud he fell, and could not get up again till assistance came to- him.” “On Saturday a boy with stilts walked in triumph through the lake.” All these handy topics for conversation must now cease and we must seek for others. I must, however, protest against those youngsters who sacrilegiously appropriated as horses, the sticks which the Town Clerk had placed to mark out the lines he was surveying. There was a time when the little fellows would have been thrashed with those sticks, in order that they might never forget the o‘Hara Lake. After all, Mainstreet has been no worse than Mainstreet Grey town, of which the Wairarapa Standard says:—-“The weather has been moist! On Monday the slush in Main-street, Greytown, stood at four inches. A few showers on Tuesday raised it to six inches, but fortunately yesterday was finb, and it receded to five inches. The Government we hear are going to fix a' suspension bridge of galvanised iron wire across the street near the Post Office to enable the public to get from one Side of the town to the other. We believe that their Engineer was instructed to report whether the slush was navigable, as had it been so a punt might have been substituted at a less cost. However, it is understood the Engineer represented that though the liquid depth was sufficient, the consistency of the slush would prove an obstacle to carrying out the idea.” Frank Truman.