NOTES FROM TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1959, 27 January 1885, Page 2

NOTES FROM TE AWAMUTU.

Oi n correspondent, " Billy," writes :— The other day a deputation from the fathers and mothers of Te Auamutu handed me a petition, praying that a general meeting of parents might be held for the purpose of congratulating each other on the tremendous loii}? school holidays being nearly orer, and their speedy freedom from ineeisant jumjulo pef-eeution. I prevented any public display of rapture by appealing to the Jove they possessed for their tormentors. Petitions are becoming fashionable. The pound for the present has ceased to be, and horses, o\en, sheep and goats are lumng a high time of it. Its " resurgam" can only be pronounced when the differences between the Raugiaohia Road Board and the town boaid are settled. The approaching race meeting i« the current topic of conversation. A large influx of visitor-,, Grangers and pilgrims is sure to be attracted hither by it, for thii town can always institute tip-top races, and conduct them to a successful imruo. New houses of u ore or less architectural benuty are being erected, their anpeanwce bespeaking the gradual progress i 4 iba peace, which is more likely to be i>enn*m«alf than the mushroom erections of sudden building-mania " spurt*." To "Nanny" I again t-ay, teetotalism U a great and good work. Let it be granted hundreds, million* it you like, sign the pledge and keep it. Others, also numerically strong, repeatedly sign the plodge and break it. Considering the weakness of thoso who periodically sign the pledge and break it, I am inclined to think a firm determination to abstain from intoxicating drink, the result of earnest communion with self, untrammelled by any act of signature, would be the most noble form of teetotalism a man, addicted to drink, could adopt. With these brief remarks, duo to the courteous parts of " Nanny's,' letter, 1 dismiss the subject ; for any controversy thereon I have not the leisure to engage in. What \v ith mosquitoes and the constant game of social blutf going on here, life in \crily becoming a mere scratching for existence.

'•Mrs Guiats, lend me your tub." " Cau't do it— all the hoops are off— it'» I full of iuds ; besides, I never had one— l washes in a barrel." A siiKRM d old lady cautioned her married daughter ogainst worrying her husband too mujh, aud concluded by saying, " My child, a man is like an egg. Kept m hot water a little while, he may boil soft ; but keep him there too long anil he harden*,"