TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1814, 21 February 1884, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU.

MEIH'IXG OK HOUSKHOIiDKKS. The adjininiod meeting of households s, to elect a school committee, was held on Monday, at 3 p.m., in the schoolroom. Only fi\e attended (Mr Sloane in the chair), and those attended to nominate commissioners for the ensuing year. As no one appears inclined to alter the existing state of affair^. «'md the business of the school ha» bjen so well conducted hitheito, Mr Wright proposed, and Mr Roche seconded, the nomination of Messrs J. H. Mandeno and Winstone a& commissioners for the ensuing year.

HILSCKLLANKOI'S. The Itev Mr Canick, of H. Andrew's Pi esby terian Church, Auckland, will pi each in the Piesbyteiian Churuh, Te Awi'inutu, on Sunday, the 24th inst., at 3 p.m. The olonul youth has a keen appreciation of a practical joke, especially if the joke is at the expense of superiors. The following is an instance of the truth of this : — A swarm of bees have taken up their quarleis in the Mangu])iko s hool, in the poich between the lining and the weather-boards. They got in through the hole through which the bell rope passes, thus preventing the bell being lung, an opeiation which appear-) to have di&tinbed their per cc of mind. In the dilemma, the schoolmaster called in one of the school committee to consult as to the best means of dispersing the visitors. The teacher and committee man went under the entrance to the hi\ c to hold a consultation, when one of the aforesaid colonial youths slyly pulled the rope. Tableau : Wild stampede of the teacher and S.C.M. ; hats and handkeichiefs beating the air in a fuiious manner ; frantic delight of the urchin. The teacher and S.C.M. could not see the point of the joke, but they felt it was one which left a sting behind ; in fact, a good many stings. — (Own Coi respondent.)