ARROWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1282, 16 September 1880, Page 3

ARROWS.

My free dritahalts not particularly, * * * No levelled ntalicc intccts oh«J c6mma in the course I hold.

Iv there ever "Was a place on the slU'face of this fair earth. blessed with societies, , clubs, ami whatnot, surely that place is Hamilton ! .It ha» its Choral Society, its Dramatic ,Qlub,. its Literary Society, its Debating Club, its Tennis Olub, its Crioket and Football Clubs, to say nothing of' the vasjb number ot institutions of a more cosmopolitan nature. The list would be, <jojnplete Wre a club, formed to include those members of the community I who enter into npne pf t}ie spoils and n'musenients indulged iii by 'the' members of the institutions in part enumerated above. tinch a thing would not, however be pa^siWf f PPft[. are IWres w^° tl ° not indi\l^«&i«iei<*ain{u-y^epo»tt-i*in(l pastimes of the period, but how many are there who wdttkl be content to eschew politics ?

/While' cfa' the subject 6f Societies I must offer 'ihy' vrarintfsfc! congratulations to the members of, the, .flourishing debating Club which has been set ,a-goin# in le Awamutit, on" the wisdom tfh'ich they have displayed in tlie selection of the firs> subject for argument. 'JGhe question " Is Woman Man's equal?!' is one which, with every' manied- man since the days of the patriarchs, has formed the subject of serious tln'qniry I.'1 .' 'the large majority have been compelled to answer in the s normative, but it remains for the solous of TeAiqamutu.Jio finally) determine^the matter. Bigger problems have,' been solved with less brains ; and if Hamilton has decided. that the policy pursued, by Beaconqfield was tine, pght one, why should not Te Awamut^ offer to solve ,*, conundrum of, suc,h trifling proportions? < •

Certain people in a town not to be mentioned, baye n>a4s i* discovery; [It is this:— They have a river, and to that river's ban)cs.,there runs a roafl,! pver and by virtue of which the inhabitants of this town convey, or more eyplicitfy, if, more vulgarly, cart , their merchandise ; this th^jpughf are,,. owing to the , enormous trafficker it, has for,(W l»el »e time been in a very deleotable., state, but nob being; jn a position to pay, for, ,its maintenance it has suddenly ocenre^ these people , that ■ .the road is not a local, but. a colonial road. Howvhappy some people whom 1 1 know would be could they malfe their personal liabilities colonial, and rub out the figures on the state with a oheque from John Bull! ■

The great man, Jones, sometime of Waikato, who, suooQßsfully beaHed the .great .political lions at the Bar of ,the House, has turned out a failure after all. "Where were all dazzling con uscationa of wit ; those biting withering sacasms in which Jon^a was supposed to be if/tcilc princeps? , A diurnal interrogation about Patetere,"»nd a general deepineps wliioh won for him the title;of , " Puddinghead " beatowedby.h^CQmEaniQnin misfortune John LuridoD'/ If4alfy1 f4alfy oompriae all that distinguished him during the session. His fiddling gained fovhim admission to the . naered eh»ttbef, - <md perhaps we ought not to be fnrpjtiied # ho doea aothjng , elae while there. > ' ,

bnthe sweet bonks of the Cam there is W«W wd guwjuug of fcetb at the co^

duct of certain land speculators. The unseemly oonduot of the business people in asking to be paid what thoy are justly entitled to, will very probably result in. the loaves and fwhea being distributed, in diher places in future,. If the labor entailed in picking them up is to be as poorly rewarded again as it has been of late the transfer of custom will liot be mourned over very much. •

■A very striking ' iHustration of the difference between Honesty aad prudence came to my notice a day or two ago. A certain peraqn holding a position under Government.' and residing in this district, had occasion to receive a shilling from a lady. The coin happened to be one which hud done duty through many successive generations, and was in consequence fyell worn. Its appearance roused the hereditary cautiousness' of the official—who, by-the-bye, is ndt a native of the Emerald Isle—and ht told the lady he was afraid lit was sburidus. " I would not mind i taking it 1 ' hd, added, «* but I already i possess a bad lialf *cro^n, which, although ! I have mad? repeated trials^ I have not been able to pam '."

A rediculous friend of mine, to wh6m it is perfectly uaele!sB to talk of the iniquity of pending, has sent me the following" regarding the .newly constituted Borough Odunoil of Hamiltbn:— "The Mayor and Or. Vialou Will find the tifnes greatly changed since the election. Instead of the smooth road which they formerly < enjoyed, they will now have' a very stiff Hill to get over, to say nothing of the tremendous Knocks which they will be suretol&r*^ r«W r