CAMBRIDGE. March 3rd, 1876.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 591, 4 March 1876, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE. March 3rd, 1876.

Tno nut lias gone forth ! and jour poor correspo dent is commanded to " dry up" about the •'wet." Ala-, I cannot comply with thi« most rea«onabio statute. I must break the lair, be the penalty *hat it raty ! Why this itrange antipathy to all connected with the weather, on the p>iri ol your Alexandra and Pukerimu correspondentsl' Perhaps they are Good Templar* mid are sick of water, and all connected therewith ;or tlioy might be drougthy tipplers At all events, I liar e olfended them put all forgivnoss! Alas for your little minds, oh ! ye men of Aloxunditi s.nd i'ukerimu ! Do ye think that Carnal ul^e so buratetli with dbws, that I can afford 10 lot thu nnp.r taut item of the weather ilide for one l-eue? Do ye forget, oh jo generous, self <ibnegittuii! eonespondnnt;, that We fere paid by *he column ? What oar« I for the ram I or the mm-Line either, if I get my bread, and htve a • oat on my bick! Nar, I prefer the rain, with iv rything thai aoeompanyebh it, to the dull dry weather we are now experiencing. 1 must thank you, oh mysterious '• Black r* iff 1 ' for your thoughtfulness m offerin gto take the correspondentslnp of Cambridge oil' my haudi>. tfo loiijj as tho tiditor can oust without tio l.itPht iichm concerning " old C" "T itnd S" " 11" »nd " H." I think that ho will so far oondoscend to put up with my ignorant und liot-lond-of-ji .B»:ping neif ! When i k'el oiysulf called upon to »p«k on sucb ma tor, I will use strmghtforward English woids, nnd point out to the reader! ot tiie ■' limps" tljH necessity or otherwise of »tty pubiio work. Up to the present, it teems the weather has coiite ted mo ! Dear Diethren of the quill! let us laugh o»er «hn I nave wri ten aud [if you ar» not Good Templers] drink eaoh o her's healths in loraetbins stronger tiiaa the ouuh of all this. — Own