TAURANGA JOTTINGS.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 97, 22 July 1882, Page 297

TAURANGA JOTTINGS.

__ $, __ — One of our citizens was heard to remark •casually that he didn't iniad if the Russians came. *' It's so easy to get lost in the bush, you know." — I must apologise to Tom C. for asserting that "he danced the semaphore. It was his partner that persisted in dancing in this manner. Just imagine a couple in a crowded ball-room with their right arms at a rightangle to their bodies, her left hand stuck somewhere in his ribs and her elbow projecting as they urge on their mad carreer, knocking every unfortunate within a radius of about six feet. — Great Bacchus ! How the whiskey walked at a recent dance— a bottle at a time. Someone, exhausted with his exertions, or perhaps dazed from a blow of the semaphore, take a nip and then plant the bottle, the blow having probably knocked all morality out of him. No sooner was he again lost to view in the mazy and intoxicating waltz than some watchful and alert individual would spring his plant and put the bottle elswhere, only to be still further removed by aomeon who would be watching the watcher. " — When the Egyptian news arrived and the "Buster" expressed its fear of a Bussian invasion, considerable apprehension was felt by. our townsmen, \A a* into consi( i era tio 11 the splendid climate, superabundant wealth and enormous natural resources of the •Bay of Plenty, they came to the. conclusion that the Kussians would select Taurauga for a temporary sojourn m preference to any other part of New Zealand. j.t was •only when they perceived our rising young architect doing solitary parade with a rifle in oiie hand and a pot °L i S 1 * ln the other that their confidence was restorea. ihey knew no Russian would venture around while ne was near.