TAUPIRI.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1236, 1 June 1880, Page 2

TAUPIRI.

Things are looking up here. There are quite a number of men working at the mountain-side, getting metal for the railWciy line from Ohaupo to Te Awamutu. The wharf which was built here just below the metal-shoots when the railway was in course of construction has come into use again, Whitaker's mine on the west side of the river having engaged Captain Gibbons and his steamer "Lillie" to take coal from the river-side to the wharf here in barges, where there is a small engine, and it is tipped in half-tons into wagons which are left on a siding to be taken up to Auckland. We are getting quite sociable here now, having initiated a series of monthly dances of thje bread-and-but-ter genus ; everybody enjoys them, and it seems to foster a sociable spirit among the settlers. We are getting up a concert for Thursday, June 17. Proceeds to pay for improvements to the church, and balance to the formation of a Library. I notice that the buttresses (?) of the bridge over the Mangawhara are giving' away. It would be well for the Waikato County Council to see to this before the damage is made worse by the winter rains. — (Correspondent. )

" Heaven lies about us in our infancy," says the poet. Yes, and our neighbours lie about us when we gtow up. A mitlib boy said he didn't want the soft part of the biscuit. "Some little boy," observed his mother, " would be very thankful to get it." "Then why don't you to give it to them ?" answered the four-year-old hopeful. An old oyster digger who had caught billions and eaten millions of the delicions bivalve, waa delighted with a dish given him at a church fair called l( oyster stew." He said it was so new to him — he was sick of oysters. •' Johi. what odor is that ?" " Cloves, love." "But thnt other?" "Allspice, my beloved." But, isn't there another X' "Yp-, nj'plo-', b r 'loveclest." "Ju<«t one more?" " Raisin*, my mo*t belove'lost. ., " WpII, John, if 3 r ou'd ot.ly drink just a little brandy, now, I think you would n>ajcg a good miuce-piOi' 1