LA TE SHAW ENTERTAINMENT.
Sir,— Ou looking over the " Stnr" filos of the 24ih inst., my att'iilion was drawn to* local parntrrt, u winch r.ia a* (olLiw* : 4 corregp >udetit unrler t lie giginture 1 Waikato sends us an amusing letter on Iho curious vagnrirts of the Lumbago Minisrrcla of un up country lowinhip. Li mit'd space, howeTer, preclu lf-s »n\ ehanco (.f i-isertion." The livening Stnr" like many other j >nrnaU, not wishing to diihtiai'tea lh<-ir couutrj c^rrespundente. no doubt «uted tha' they «erd over crowde.l wit'i milter, »n I therefore his witty contiibutiOii did not appt*nr in print 1 should rut her think i wou d not. If ■*• Waikat >," »h»ever he m*y bo. wish d to write a funny panxiaph ou the Lumbago peiformnnco, wtiy di I he not contribute to the local journal iv the Wttika o, and there give some expunatiou of w.Jat he means by the term " Tagaries. — I am, ie Jam Tart. Out 20, 1676.
Sir, — Having observed a paragraph in >h» .* Aucklaud Star,' of the 24tu inst., relating to tome vagaries ea r<cd ou by the Lumbago Minstrel*, 1, my self, beiug ou« of them, kuow of iio auch thing, or anything pei timing loit to have caused any m tu(>er of the community t > have caa the shgbte»t »lur, through au Auckland paper, un the promoter*. lam only sorry that tbo * Siai ' viii not puuii h it, «o thai iboae, m we. l a* mystlf, #bo took part in it. wou d b»ve bad a tair ohaucr of seeiu fe the pro luvtiou, aud prubab'y Ituowin^ tut) wrieri er It certainly raujst have bt-e<> " uiiu ing" .o have giveu bim sauces piquantes, wbivh may h tve c»ua. d m-> ttaa* on 10 be scut to an ou -of-thu-way j mnal, who had ucit 101 a ieporter or n ni'iuber of their press pte*eut. Proh inidor on any man, lot him be who in may wk<) wuuld not try to cover auyini.ig ihat might appear distattefui to hnu-ir'if <id a public mage, v>h le ooibtr.-- • n l.ng tor so ohanta le »n o je.. as it itw l teuded. Please q Vt> lua rtluD lo tbu lv your valuable jouTual, so tbat the wrieri er any »c» it, und pine over us suctitn» aud happy reuult-, and like iho .imt in Jajk tbe GiaU- Killer, piunge a kmfe into ins s omncb aud be uO more. — I bin, *c , Fair i lay. Hamilton, Got 27tb, 1876.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 682, 28 October 1876, Page 3
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413LATE SHAW ENTERTAINMENT. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 682, 28 October 1876, Page 3
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