TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1405, 5 July 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

"We've got no work to do," as that sweet old British beggars' idyll exclaims. We can't live through the winter like the innocent God-provided bears by licking our paws, so we have to look about for that tiresome necessity of existence, belly timber, and as we can only get hold of that by doing someone else out of his, find it is a cheerful and lively state of existence. Picking holes in one another's garments is the most general amusement — a very entertaining and purely goody-goody game. To try and see' how soon an evil report against any good woman - will fly round the town and come back in vollies of abuse to its villainous originator is very comforting. It 'was said that v, good and muscular old gentleman iof the ancient Pistol type, who is sound everywhere but in his head and his limbs, was "wheeled home in a barrow from a meeting of the -local society for the promotion of teetotal ideas on Saturday. He has threatened what he calls a smack over the face to anyone who ever dares to mention it, so by about Thursday we shall see, D.V., a little excitement here. It is our only chance for the present, or I 'would 'not have mentioned the matter, for he is a very dear old man ; one of the most tiddle-toddle old members of society to be met with out of the House of Representatives, and never oraits getting speechless about 11 o'clock every night, which ia another boon. > Tti Aroha is still in the same place, and ,none of the masses of pure gold that lie in its broad bosom hare been touched • since my, last., * We shall have the Prospecting Society getting to work next week though, and. they will find 1 sotne positively. Some few of the old claims are still working, and still maintain their good prospects, and, our ,schO9l r w4Utbe "dpeneil 4;his weekYso'we kh'all haye f some'thjng indre 'jStir'rjtag l m"a day or two,, or i the" consequences "would ' be dreadfttj.'---

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