WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 197

WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

-Who's your hatter Charley ? Did the bortflat fit. -The lessee of the Hamilton private billiard- » certainly deserves patronage, if only for the able to with which he conducts the room, and hisoblig■Ouriesy to the public. -Who is. the Hamilton landlady that had one *« dining-room windows darkened in order to keep 'Mb from looking at the chaps ? Does she forget mis was once a servant herself, wer all there, are to be no sports in West pton on Boxing Day, for Richard tossed with B. and So the Sydney Squar3ites are to have it all their *ny. and a very good job, too. *M is rumoured that the popular host of the jjj Hotel, Hamilton, Jintends taking unto himself a ** about Christmas. The all-absorbing question «io is the happy lady. All that I know is that he •patronises the West side of the river for an after- *• promenade with Miss T. "■So " Contented John " has been elected <* for the third time of "Hamilton. Tho opposition wiih a will, and the result of the poll was *sPrise as to the closeness of the voting, but no ■vie person ever doubted the issue. Unfortunately "*« of John's supporters were absent from town. t^he Hamilton West School Committee had 1 hands full at their meeting on Friday last, "w letters were read concerning the welfare of the Y~-one especially so from Mr W. Davies, complain''the excessive punishment his son received at the r 8 of the h^ad-master. To prove that the charge *Jt a frivolous one, Mr Davis took his boy to a j**of the committee and showed him the marks **tne child had received. The gentleman in ques'Sid it was too severe. However, as Mr Murray is 'wlowed an opportunity of vindicating himself by ?£ in his report to the corumitteGj no doubt the " will have the facts placed before them shortly, of the cane is sometimes essential for discipJJt when it is laid on too heavy it is high time ■we parents stepped in and put a stop to it. *»s it would be as well for the future if the master 10 amd the old adage, that — "It is better to rule **c than fear." _ j'flie entertainment given by the Hamilton school-children in the Oddfellows' Hall last week, [of the school library fund, was a decided success Bry point of view, the takings amounting to £12. ffMl be difficult to individualise any one of the ™1 perform-jrs, for they all acted their parts adHi in fact it wap really surprising, and those J^nofc attend missed a treat. Great credit is due ?:Maberly (the head-teacher), to the pains- « Miss Steadman, and to the over-obliging faster, Mr T. A. Bell. During the evening the juveniles were completely showered with' choice »wi? from tllG audience. It is to be hoped that ™J give the Hamilton people another treat shortly, canape of another concort,