TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1861, 10 June 1884, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU.

Tin: weather—that threadbare topic about which correspondents frequently wiite when they ha\c nothing bettei to \nite about— has been so cold lately that I cannot lefuun fiom mentioning an instance of the seventy of the frosts we ha\e had. Last week two lads, sons of a gentleman ni-ai hcic, went out, accom panied by another boy, one evening to shoot teal. When they got to the lagoon whcie they expected to find the game they found it was coveicd with ice of bufiiuiunt stiength to bear all three. Accordingly the yomigsteis — the elde>st a big boy of 10— went in for sliding, which pastime they indulged in for a considerable time, when the ice gave May. As the water was o>dy about two feet deep they weie hi no danger of drowning. The lagoon is shaded fiom the sun by trees, so the ice must Inue been accumulating for se\ eral dajs, but even under these conditions no one would expect it to be of such thickness as to bear the weight of the boys. New Zealand must hay c slipped her moorings, and d lifted a degteo or two south in the last year. Many people are under the hnpiession that my remarks le adulterated liquor in Thursday's issue weic intended to be locil in their application. They were meant to be general, when I said that " eiime in this country cm Id be traced to adulteiated drink," I thought my meaning was clear enough. As a, matter of fact there is less diunkenness in Te Awamutu than in any other township in Wnikato. The records of the Police Court will piove the truth of this statement, and if the giog sold in the surrounding district was of bad quality this lock-up would be more often tenanted than it is, which is seldom indeed. — (Own Correspondent.)