KAIHU CLIPPINGS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 200, 2 June 1893, Page 3

KAIHU CLIPPINGS.

[By Old Kaihu.] No, Mr Editor, I was not at Babylon races. I had heard the magnificent, donor of those electioneering (beg pardon) garden prizes is anxious I should secure one, so I stayed at home and planted cabbage. I hear I did not miss much in the way of sport as the course was fetlock deep in slush and the racing very so so. I see a correspondent in your contemporary is slating you for your remarks anent the late sudden death at Dargaville. Now I’m not a teetotaller and have all an English • man’s dislike to those who would rob a poor man of his beer (either in case or otherwise), but what is the good of burking the truth ? All monopoly is at an end for ever (vide Mr D’s speech to the Grumdiggers’ Union), but when the County attempt to raise a few pounds for the roads by leasing part of their property they are threatened with expensive litigation. How is this ? Everything was all right and proper when they leased part of the road to a storekeeper at Tangai. I hear the originator of that yarn re certain storekeepers having an agent in Sydney and advertising in the Austrian papers for gumdiggers has taken great pains to circulate it up North. "Well, I suppose he thinks this is the right and proper thing to do, but he must not feel surprised if people class him among those who accordi igto D’s motto we can never trust.

What a hold the game of football has on the community, and I am pleased to see the players are getting several banners, cups, &c., to compete for, which makes the game still more interesting : at the same time I hope the donor ares just and not generous at the expense of the butcher and baker. Thanks “ Cigarette.” I did not answer that par. re the “ old soger ” as I think it bad form to make remarks about a man’s personal appearance, and I could not retaliate by merely saying “ you are another ” as na drill sergeant could ever make the popular, spirited, and talented young proprietor of the Buster walk like a drilled man or look like a “ soger,” young or old. He is not built that way, but “ Old Wairoa ” when next you go for me do have a little mercy ; draw it mild ; keep your hair on. I see by the newspapers the Wellington snips’ are wanting the Government to open a State tailors’ shop. I would suggest they open a shoemakers’ shop as well, and then that tailor and that shoemaker that Mr Houston told us all about could get work all the year round and the honorarium could be reduced to the old figure. The members would get their clothes from the State shop of course, and one friend of the wurruking man that I wot of would run no risk of being summoned again by his tailor.