ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1334, 18 January 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS.

— I hear of an impending action for libel, whioh will not be without interest to HamiltonianB.

— Both parties to the suit reside in Hamilton East.

— The plaintiff is a domestic servant of good character and respectable parontage.

— The defendant is "in society."

— I was glad to notice on Sunday that my remarks regarding the absence of sufficient ventilation at S. Peter's have fallen on good ground.

— The windows and doors were all open, and consequently the atmosphere was bearable.

— Practical jokes can be carried a little too far.

— The other evening, in a street not a mile from Pearce's Hotel, a certain individual told a lady that E ds had taken a cottage, and that his good lady had arrived from Melbourne. The news flew like wild-fire.

— However, there is no truth in it.

— Rather a rough joke upon the individual.

— It is all very well for the convenience of people attending S. Peter's Church that their horses should be tied to the fence, but rather annoying to have dogs tied to vehicles, and howling while the paison is delivering his sermon, as one did on Sunday morning.

— I wonder if that dog has a collar ?

— Is it true that the bachelors of Hamilton, when they issued the tickets for the late ball, forgot the Queen bee ?

— However, the return ball is coming off.

— ' 'Tuck-em-in ' ' says it was very close in a certain hotel hi Cambridge after the iaceb.

— At the Ohaupo sale-yards the other day, when J.S. was hard at it, a local preachor rebuked a stockdriver in the wiuey-piney key affected by that (jcnub for certain characteristic expressions of endearment to the bullocks.

— The stockdriver listened submissively, then replied, ' 'you must excuse me, hir ; my swearing is like your preaching'; neither of us mean what we say !"

— Surely white gloves must [be expensive articles these times, but when two pair are divided between three, the cost is greatly reduced.

— The races held at Cambridge the other day were, I hear, completely successful.

— This information was not, I may say, ni jni6!>((nt, obtained fioin a Hamilton source.

— The Steeplechase \\ as immense, the only fault beniy that JLmm allowed Wilson to "cait" him over the jumps.

— How cruel of him, to be sine !

— Ne\eillioles>b, the old ulicsnut has no reason to bo asluunud of Ins defeat. He ran neck-aud-neek up the straight with the best oteepleohaber Austialia has produced.

— The G rand Stand on the second day presented a perfect galaxy of beauty, but a\ hci c were all the grand dres&es one went to feec '.'

— The btcmer bex outvied the ladies altogether.

— Fancy Jeviy and Swivcllor in white belltoppers. Smoking cigais, too! Oh, you naughty boys !

— Can it be true that some people were so indifferent on the Mibject of old English sport as to go for a picnic on race day?

— There surely must be sonic mistake.

— By the way, the Lord Abbot attended the races, and acted the part of the moral policeman with considerable success.

— He was also prompt in goiug to the assistance of the jockey who was upset off Kifleman.

— The good Father argues justly that it is the duty of ministers of religion to be at hand when accidents are likely to occur.

— And it is a pity more are not of the same opinion.

— I hear that the wide-awake Registrar of Dogs for the Borough of Hamilton registered ouv worthy R.M.s dog as a "Pomeranian terrier !"

— Those who know the animal will appreciate the joke.

— Whilst ridiiig on the Piako Road the other day, my eyes were delighted with a scene at once picturesque aad domestic.

— A prominent settler speeding the plough, and his fair partner protecting 1 him from the fierce rays of the sun with an umbrella.

— I hear that tw© ladies are going to challenge the " Waikato cracks" at lawn tennis.

— There will be another chance for the Y. B.

— I hoar that Mr Seeley, a settler on the Hamilton and Whatawhata road, has twice attempted to interview the Road Board re the alteration of his fences, and has now decided to fence the present road, leaving the public to go down a very steep incline into a gully.

— And yet these men are " trustees."

— A wag tells me that travellers are Da(y)zed with such Bo(a)redom.

— There is a bread and butter flutter at Hautapn this evening.

# — It's really charming tolwteatothe piano -forte duet while waiting for one's letters at the Hautapu Post-office. " PATJYKB DUBLE.