TARANAKI.

Patea Mail, 12 August 1880, Page 2

TARANAKI.

An interesting ‘but rather melancholy jeremiad has been published at that quiet watering-place where our maiden aunt spends the evening of her days. The dear old lady will have read in the local journal an article after her own heart; a kind of school-boy admonition to those naughty young scapegraces at Hawera, telling them they ought to be ashamed of themselves, they ought, for their thoughtless goings-on. These scapegraces must have been breaking some of our maiden aunt’s ornaments—so we should imagine by the way she “drats” and scolds the good-for-nothing young scamps. We have no sympathy with romping capers which disturb the serene repose of an estimable elderly lady. Whatever the boys do, or don’t, they should not take her hair out of curl-paper when she is having her afternoon nap. That would spoil the temper of the best of maiden aunts. Behold how gently, modestly, and becomingly she has been treated by young Carlyle, that juvenile sags 111 WllOin Slu; lakc/o a apooial pvlflp | She has n good word for him, a sort of left-handed compliment, while she is very severe on the other naughty boys. She is a discriminating person, is our maiden aunt.

A pure white native pigeon was recently shot in Westland. A Melbourne contemporary says that the police on occasions of emergency should be clad in mail. Fuller, the Melbourne boatbuilder, has Unlit u oploiiflitl clinker four-oared outrigger to the order of the. Sydney Rowing Club. The greatest show in Bourke-street, Melbourne, is Byrne the bushranger’s boots. They are exposed at the Wax-works’ and gather tremendous crowds.