ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1340, 1 February 1881, Page 2

ENTRE NOUS.

— A kennel is much wanted by the worthy dogr-oatohers of the Borough of Hamilton and the Waikato County Council.

— la which the canine pets mighb lire through their days of grace

— If they have any.

— I would recommend ,. the Borough Council to vote them the Bridge Tollhouse for the purpose;

— It i8 a building too sumptuous for its present purpose. - ; T

— What on earth has become of our " sunny" Te Awamutu friend ?

— Has'his " party" deserted him ?

— Ngaruawahia gave Whatawhata a dreadful warming at orickefc on Saturday.

— Notwithstanding that the latter's team was composed of all nations.

— Whatawhata, thou art not all powerful.

— Stick to Road Board contests.

— In them you are wondrously fortunate.

- But leave the " manly British sport" alone.

— The crew of the Delta went on a foraging expedition the other day.

— They didn't discover the apples were Quince (\j)i> until they came upon the ' ' kernel."

— There are several jokes in the above.

— A person fell through a window of one of our most reputable hotels the other day.

— He wa«, however, not a white man.

— So it is of no consequence.

— There has always been some difficulty in frciting a meetiug of Infantry Volunteer in Hamilton.

— Mr C , however, found no difficulty iv getting volunteers to scramble iv the dust for his imaginary halfsovereign.

— The great Ketten has just concluded a beason of six nights in Auckland.

—On Thursday there were only the well-known musical people in the circle. The stalls were all but empty, and theie were actually two in the pit.

— The remainder of the population are waiting for the next circus.

— What a pity it is that the good people of Cambridge do not give up the custom of htiuging bells to their cows' necks.

— What n lot of argument just about evening church timo would be saved if they did.

— And then the •' meek eyed buaiies" v/ould not bo so readily detected m the enjoyment of the neighbours cabbage gciidens !

— The next, best thing 1o Ronig to chui eh at the To Aroh-J, is to sit down in the shade of the woods and listen to the sound of p-alm and hymn (accompanied bv a cornet and concertina) bonie upwards fiom the plain below.

— I am taking this statement on trust.

— For myself, I should prefer being behind the mountain.

— I am told that there is a great want of accommodation at the important station of Mercer.

— And that there is an appalling sameness about— the puddings.

— Talk of " sciuhs." The hoi'&os from Poveity Bay, ottered at the Cambridge yards on Satiuday, realised irom 7s 6d. One nurc and foid even got as high as £2 ,Is.

— Can it pay ? Cambridge people hope not.

— The picnic to the Blueuose was, and wa-, not, a success.

— Just as \ou like to regard it.

— 11l an e&thctic sense, nothing could well he finer— except the peaches, which. were riot there.

— But in a financial sciifee, it was> simply and utterly ruinous.

— The weather u as gloriously fine, ami the tup up the Waip,i was more like a piogie^ through Fairyland.

— Or a journey between the b.mks of the Onent.il Tiaiis in the days of tho "good Haroim Alrasclnd."

— So I am told

— And yet there are people in the world who would prefer a dog-tight or even a bwininiing-match to all this.

— (Such ia human depravity.

— And that reminds me.

— A confiding correspondent has hen* mo the following, which, in the innocent joyousness of his heart, he looks upon as a joke : — Little Boy went to the reception of the Governor at Cambridge, and was asked by his mother if he saw the Governor, and in terms of great wonder and delight, said he had, &c. The mother found it was the gallant Colonel the little fellow meant. Big Boy went, and who really distinguished His Excellency, returned to his mother in the most despondent manner.

— I insert the above merely to show to what depths tho human mind is capable of sinking.

— I am not surprised that the Battery shares did not "go off" freely. '

The appearance of one of the principal promoters ig sufficient to excite suspicion in the breasts of the most confiding.

— Poodles were carefully placed in concealment ou his approach. ' '

"Why don't you continue to shave.

— One thing done surpassed in interest the great swimming matfch. on Saturday

— Ami that was the superb- divine- or sfemi-diving of the V.B. ■ r •

' '<■— Or the manner in which the "prizes" were disposed of.

'— Exelosiv*, of course, of the « Ikrrk" which, v ( anished, mysterioualy.