WAIKATO WHISPERINGS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 233, 28 February 1885, Page 4

WAIKATO WHISPERINGS.

Miss McC. had better keep her weather-eye open. Billy S. was doing the grand up the Hamilton Road on Sunday last. What took tie two young horse doctors to Kirikiri on Tuesday last ? By-the-bye, I see that Jack H. has picked up with the new chum servant. What takes Archie G to the farm every Sunday ? Is there some other attraction ? •' For ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain, The Native Land Court is peculiar, which tbe same I am bound to maintain. Bret Hartk, (slightly altered). During a recent sitting of the N.L.C., held the other morning, an opportunity was yiven to the parties conc.rned in the alleged bribeiy business to explain the circumstances of the case (by-the-bye the Tipa in this affair seems to have been the ' tippee '). In the otherwise faithful report of the proceedings given by the Waikato Times, one omission and one slight alteration of the actual .acts occurs. In taking the alteration-o_st, Hare Teomonia is reported as saying that a -certain gentleman, at a meeting at Te Waota, < laid his hand upon his heart,' &c. Perhaps it was owing to a defective knowledge of anatomy that the reporter confounded the word heart with tho vernacular for ' os cocygis,' which was the wt.r.l actually used. The omission: tt had been explained that the documents produced had been seen by Hare Teomonia, when he was in the confidence of the other party. The Chief Judge, with a bland smile, observed : ' There is ao~Q]d saying, Mr 8., that when a certain class of peofftbfall out, another class of people have some pros pect of obtaining what belongs to them.' (Music).