Entre Nous

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 88, 8 March 1902, Page 12

Entre Nous

The stoiv i> ju^t to hand horn the Wauarapa At a iece.it meeting Ik>L<l in a township not main mile* horn Mateiton, a membei ot the geiitlei v>\ sitting demureh m one corner ot tuhmldino- <|UK-th UKjuued uhethoi the MMvikei wd.s in tdAOUi ot the oi: the vic<^ and &in.s comnutted on iac<-coui-scfi The aspnant for local honouisseuou.h answered that he** not ,uuu' otthe Mcob and sins to which the (mention refeued but added that it tW\ dul not meet «ith hw questionei s a™. io^.l the best thing she could do would be to refrain from fiequpntnia; that kind of eathenng Then the audience loudly tittered and an niooiwul female <rathcted her <=kirt^ about hoi and malched foi th m indignation horn the hall

Some good yams come fiom the Ninth Contingent camp, at Onehimga A %-mait-looking chap last week walked smartl} into the bar of theneaiest hotel, halted, and said "Colonel wants half-a-dozen champagne and a dozen quarts ot port Yes, I'll take 'em now ." Ho took them. Away in a small patch of bcnib, some distance from the camp, .several budding Tommies gleeful h popped gold-tops, and several were digging out port-wine corks with pocket kmve.s. In the camp the Colonel ius drinking tea out of a paiunkm, and now the authorities aie looking for the smart young troopei who posed as the Colonel's orderly, but the examination ot all hands failed to identify the man who had got into" the publican's books foi td worth of good di\ wine