ARATAPU.

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 71, 21 January 1882, Page 298

ARATAPU.

" Our boys" hare returned from holidaymaking considerably reduced in a pecuniary sense, with long faces and empty pockets. One or two have determined to (as it is jocularly termed) "whip the cat. A stranger was heard relating in piteous accents how he was compelled to dispose of a portion of hia clothes in order to provide means for his return. This is what is called " cutting it rather fine." Mick — not of " Cosmopolitan" fame — has taken % dire into matrimony and brought up a wife. ? .The affair was kej>t very quiet, and has proved, as usual, a nine days' wonder for the gossiping fraternity. One of the gentler sex — a gushing creature — who accompanied the Choral Society to Pahi had during the passage a queer sort of up-and-down sensation peculiar to a sea voyage. However, the dispenser of pills and powders was happily on board the steamboat, and prevented what might have been a dire calamity. Where was the K.S.S. Company's boat when the^ little child fell overboard from the s.s. Durham ? A gentleman returning homewards a few evenings ago was the only spectator of a nice little flirtation going on in a certain house in Aratapu. People who are in the habit of sitting in a line with the window and lamp are apt to render themselves objects of observation, especially if a little " nyum liyuin business" is indulged in occasionally.