ECHOES FROM TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1259, 24 July 1880, Page 2

ECHOES FROM TE AWAMUTU.

I observe our Coroner takes a lively interest in the mechanism of the swingdoors recently added at the entrance to the store of Messrs Duffus and Dfck. These doors are hinged upon " Smith's Patent " principle, which has been adopted (without permission) from that used at the Bank. They open with a swing and they close with a swing, and any very youthful Te Awamutan who repairs to the store in question for lollies will stand a chance of getting "jammed" between the patent openings and go converted into human sausagemeat. I don't consider that the explanation re the organist testimonial, appearing in your issue of Tuesday, can be at all satisfactory to the " local worthy." His " exceedingly strange proposition " remains much where it was when your "daring own correspondent " first made it public. Of course our friend's intentions are always of the purest and best. How funny it is that he is so frequently obliged to assure us of this fact. The last state of that man appears worse than the first. Is it not shameful to see two benedicts quarrelling over the remains of an urgent spinster ? Cambridge Farmers' Club. Mr Fanthams announcement " that the judges at the Cambridge Show receive an honorarium" is an eye-opener for many hereabouts. It is much feared that Rewi's palace at Kihikihi will ultimately bo converted into an unlicensed millinery emporium. If this be true, we should at once get all the young members of the .A.C. Force at Kihikihi to join the Young Men's Christian Association now forming at Te Awamutu. Kiwi.