ENTRE NOUS

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1399, 21 June 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS

— I ww t OTiCK , Cr. , Steele at - the last meeting of tho Waipa. County Council— when the subject offreeing the Hamilton bridge was under discussion— moved an amendment tantamount to the effect' that the Council take no notice oi the matter — "that they decline to allow their Chairman's name to remain on the Bridge Committee," "or in any way to compi-omise the Waipa County Council." ##■»

— Cr. Steele owns land in the neighborhood of tho Narrows Bridge. ##*

— -Cr. Steele by his action ia this matter demonstrates his smallness of mind, and consequent unfitness f6r dealing with matters outside the boundary of

his homestead.

— Cr. Steele — in permitting his private personal interests to bias his action as a public man on a public question — has proved himself unworthy of public confidence. *##

— Cr. Steele shouM therefore be called upon to resign a trust imposed on him by a deluded public.

— Another significant matter in connection with Cr. Steele and the meeting of the Wai pa County Council under notice, is that he took no part in any of the proceedings after being so overwhelmingly out-voted on his amendment re freeing the Hamilton Bridge.

— A further positive proof of his utter unfitness for public life.

— The salons at Dayton were thrown open the other night in honor of a recent happy event in the family.

— Only the very cream of our jcitiiew done were bidden — and went.

— The Gospel and the Mammon of Unrighteousness were each represented.

— Now that a new license has been granted the Royal, the cry of the young bloods is "A t 0. for fresh Field's and pastures new.

— The Pseudo-Ethiopians "will have to go in strong for rehearsal. The stuff is in them, but it wants working up.

— One of the chief difficulties which has stood in the way of their success has been the want of a suitable place for practice, and a decent piano ; drawbacks which have been experienced by the piomoters of every musical entertainment in Hamilton for some time nast.

— A Kihikihi friend of mine says that if ho were in the place of the Cambridge Hdll Trustees, he would insist on the Government paying for the use of the building to the uttermoslfarthing.

— Of course you would, dear boy, but how would you act, supposing the Lands Court had been held at sonic such place in your own locality Y

— There are people in Cambridge of your way of thinking certainly, but luckily for the prosperity of the place it has got its Rayncs !

— Audits is a man of foresight and enterprise, and his scheme for erecting, fiee of cost to the Government, a hall where f utuie Land Courts may be held, is a forcible illustration of this fact.

— A little competition in the Public Hall line would do good in other ways, not only in Cambridge, bat elsewhere in Wdik.ito.

— Not bad this for East Hamilton ! Ladies who were Tarn o'Shantcrs run certain risks.

— Ono went to visit a friend the other evening, who occupies the position of companion to a lady. The old lady objected to male vis tors, and happened to go into the parlour while the Tarn o'Shanter young lady was there.

— "Mary Ann," screamed the old lady " Did I not tell you I would allow no followers ? You will please send that young man about hia business at once!" "It isn't a younjr man," protested Mary Ann. "What!" yelled the dame, do you mean to tell mo that it is not a man with a 'Scotch cap ou ?" An explanation followed, which proved satisfactory, but the young lady 'alluded to has given the Tarn o'Shmtor best.

— We all rempinber Leech's little girl who, finding that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, deduces from the fact the melancholy conclusion that the world is hollow. In much the same position mubt now be poor .Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr (Speight and Co.

— Mr Muntz, the renowned chemist, has discovered alcohol in snow, in rain, and in the vapour of the air. "Was ever anything so disheartening ? #*#

— Here have the apostles ofanti-aloo-holiainbeeuhving, unknown to themselves in the very mirlsfc of it, drinking it, breathing it, and being wetted by itone long horrible debauch, with not even the consolation of being able to leave it and find sobriety ; for that cruel scientist, Mr Muntz, declares that there is a good deal of alcohol in the ground. " Even poor soil (such as Cumberland)''gives the iodoform reaction when only 100 or 200 grammes are operated with, while mould and earth rich in organic matters contain the substance in considerable quantity." ' **#

— Sir Wilfrid, J&r Speight, and Co. must seek a more respectable planet and leave 1 us i drunkards to our fate I

— His Worship the Mayor, of Hamilton hardly sustained the cti^aity of his high, ofjSoejat IJaaehuayerte, enterteinmejij; on^hu^aaayi.i^hen $fie ( ,Professor shopk a dozen coins o( the realm put, of i the Chief Magistrate'^ «J?pv,e,. ■ , -. . , \

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