Wairarapa Jottings.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 72, 16 November 1901, Page 20

Wairarapa Jottings.

AN incident that happened the other day in connection with the Wairarapa Hospital has set the tongues a-wagging, and furnished food tor discussion while we anxiously await the arrival of that next big potato A lad, severely maimed, was brought along to the hospital. The regular and commissioned medical doctor being away, the Matron sent a polite, but earnest, message to another local medico, asking hus service and attention 'Tis said he declined to go, and that all the other medical men who were applied to followed suit except one. That mysterious fetish know n a« medical etiquette appears to have blocked the way to humanity's call. • • • His Worship the Mayor referred to the matter at the meeting of the Trustees, and advocated that the action of such men «hould be treated with contempt I suppose they will manage to survive that dreadful puni&hment • • • The choir of a local church was publicly rebuked the other Sunday bv their pastor. The rebuke was not undeserved, and, for that reason, perhaps the members of the choir resent the coram publico chastisement. When writer, once upon a time. w r as a member of a church choir — let it be stated pa^in" 1 writer cannot sing, but one need not have a voice to join the averasre choir — he was struck bv the frivolity of the other musicians. Choirs are danererous institutions, that oueht to be suppressed with a strong hand As for the practices, they are nothiner more or less than the occasion for whole-souled flirtation, where the bai«so and tenor fiarht nightly duel*, or toss up a coin, as the ea c e may be. to determine which shall escort the fair-haired soprano home while the conductor— he is usually a married man — escorts half-a-dozen lively contraltos round the block • • » The pranks of boyhood, within limit-, are all very well — but the limit should be denned. A week ago or more a certain young gentleman rode a brand new £2i bicycle past the school. Leaving his machine outside a private house while he made a call, he saw some boys, homeward bound from school examining it. That did not make him wonder, as the machine just new was a beauty But when, two or three minutes after he went to mount he found one of the young miscreants had actually slashed the tyre of one wheel right through with a penknife, while the other wheel was punctured with a pin The ow ner followed the boys and one confessed to the wanton act of dostruotion The boy's father has been communicated with and it is to be hoped, after paying for the damage, he will give the youngster the soundest thrashing the boy ever cot • • * Captaan Thomas Brenchley, of Maunceville, who of yore was accustomed to hobnob with vice-royalty, has gained considerable notoriety once more through the attention of the ejiterpnsine gentleman who fails to appreciate the relative merits of meum and tuum It appears "The Oapting" discovered one morning an aperture in his dynamite magazine. Examination proved that a considerable amount of the dread explosive was missing. The ex-wamor nnmedatelv got into communication with

the police, and Sergeant O'Malle> made a special journey to the lime centre to elucidate the mystery Local anarchists are being oarefullj watched and Prior Gilbert has remowd Ins jewellery to the bank for safet\ Mr. Curham, Masterton *> ga*, manager, lias blossomed out in a new direction This time he approaches the public with a now patent insect destroyer for trees It is claimed for this miraculous concootion that however dilapidated a fruit tree may be a few dose^. w ill reinvigorate its system cause tho leaves to shoot forth with miraculous celerity, follower! in a wink h\ the ripe and luscious fruit. • « > The King's hist aimneisan of Ins birth parsed off \ cry mcel\ • The Kurupuni Fire Brigade held high festival at their annual picnic, and mam a hearts toast was given to the health of oui sowrcien lord the King.