PUFFS: BY “ CIGARETIEE."

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 198, 19 May 1893, Page 3

PUFFS: BY “ CIGARETIEE."

Dear Mr Editor, —Do not the numerous recent little tactics for vote-catching strike you as being rather amusing ? Fancy £3O for cottage gardens, £lO for football banner, &o. People are laughing’ up their sleeves at so old a tactician (?) thinking that these little schemes will “catch on.” But perhaps I may be mistaken after all, for I hear that lie is certain of a block vote on the Wairoa. Should lie be successful in the coming- c ampaign the difficult problem of the late Premier’s successor will be more easy of solution. By the bye, can you tell mo how if is that unless a certain member of the Manga whore C. C. plays in matches there is never any mention of such matches in your up-river contemporary ? This is instanced in the Tatatarild-Mang-awhare match where lie played and scored, and the Married v. Single match where he did not play. Is it a chronicle of family events ? If so the name should be changed to something of this sort : “ The Family Bulletin,” or “The Family Actions Recorder. ’ ’ Here is a conundrum for your readers : Can you tell mo what name is to he found most frequently in the columns of the ‘Buster ?’ Give it up ? Perhaps 5 Wanderer’ or ‘ Old Kaihu ’ may be able to guess correctly . One subject suggests another and I should like to ‘ spake a wurrud ’ in reference to the incalculable amount of good that your correspondent ‘ Old Kaihu ’ has effected in silencing’ a great newspapter bully. While not being in favour of scurrility in the pu’ess, still when it is the moans of making- a venomous scribbler cease his vicious and uacallel for attacks upon old and respected residents it must do good. Again, while not favouring the method, 1 can only say (and I am sure dozens of others will echo) ‘ Bravo Old Kaihu !’ It is most noticeable that with the increase of Kiihu’s ’ correspondence in your columns, there is a visible decrease of exhibition of fangs in your contemporary. That was a very sorry attempt to clothe those feeble remarks re the ’ old soger ‘ with the twin tie plume of ‘ Old Wairoa.' I‘ll bet I could put my hand on ‘ Old fVairoa * any publishing day of the ‘ Buster. 1 —- Verb sap — Veritas pant odium. The man 1 at the corner ‘ informs me that we are to have a little excitement at an early dale in the shape of litigation in which one of the local liacing Clubs will figure as a defendant. If things be as they are told it is time there was a little ventilation introduced into the matter. Wh n in Kaihu the other evening and meandering round the township I was struck with surprise to see so many young lads coming and going from the hotels. A knowing one tells me that the greater portion of the habitues of one of the billiard rooms are boys. The next fine day you are in Kaihu. Mr Editor, stroll up as far as the Post Office and back, and take note of all the charming little cottage residences. and picturesque (not to say rustic) fences. The old saying- re ‘ nature unadorned e‘c. 1 seems to be carried out also, judging from the verynatural hue of most of the said houses and fences.—Adieu for the present, Cigarette.