COROMANDEL.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 86, 6 May 1882, Page 121

COROMANDEL.

A teetotal wedding is on the tajiis, but beverages will not be entirely excluded. The gallant captain was lamed in the football match. Why does a certain gentlemen in the choir attempt to sing alto and make discord ? The political theodolite wants to take the measure of the Observer correspondent, while Sauerkraut wants to make a big sausage of him.

NEW PLYMOUTH. T'is thought by many here Uiafc the Randwick affair is all a " barney." I would remind certain parties apropos of the coming race between Hanlan and Trickett that before making any beta on the event it would be advisable to settle for those on the one of November 15, 1880. There is a little tailor in Broham-street, who talks of running a daily, being dissatisfied with the present newspapers. It is to be against the Groverninent — it matters not tvhich party is in power — and devoted to upsetting facts. We all admire and revere the Taranaki poets, and are proud of them as Taranakians. It is far better that they should retire on well-earned laurels now, while they are young and fresh, than tarnish them with such elephantine rodomontade as " Odes to the Queen," and "Songs of Paritutu." There is nothing so. painful to witness as the second childhood of genius. The Salvation Army have made a start here, and under the auspices of a certain bank manager will, no doubt, be successful. A section in the j centre of the town, belonging to the bank, is the scene for holding forth. The army has however met with some opposition ; but I think the opposition shown is, if anything more discreditable than the misguided proceedings of the army itself. But, there, how are we to know that the Salvationists do not throw the rotten eggs themselves and punch their own heads in order to gain notoriety ? The army may be divided into two parts — one to throw rotten eggs, and the other to receive them. * A Taranaki holiday is not always a pretty sight, but it is a great moral lesson. It teaches that there is a law of compensation for ever at work, ! and that the weary toilers, who cannot afford expensive pleasures are mercifully endowed with a faculty of appreciating cheap one 3. There is no charge for a free fight ; and the only real outlay necessary for the enjoyment of a thorough New Plymouth holiday is the money it costs to get ( drunk. .A careful observation at the present time, ;however, wjll perhaps convince the Good Templars

we are improving. Sensible (!) men on Q-ood Friday now, instead of rushing off with their male companions have to stop at home and quarrel with their wives. This, no doubt, saves money, unless the domestic thermometer rises to the furniture-smashing point. Then it costs more than going out.