GOSSIP FROM TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1962, 3 February 1885, Page 2

GOSSIP FROM TE A WAMUTU.

"Buu" write*:— To Awamutu tried to conduct its (.'cliic.itioii.il matteia by mean* of ,i committee composed of householders, but .in general dissatisfaction emanated fimu its confabulations tins committee \i,ii dnsohed and conim: <*ioncri appointed to manage the school affair. Th-se commit sioiiers, inflated by the impoitance of their appointment, not the duties it imposed, swelled .iml Hwelled exceedingly until, hguiatively speaking, they bin it. Hence the piesent leturu to a balloted committee <»f hou-eholderd, who ought, wiser giown by the experience of past events, to be ablo and willing to <id\ance all just means for improving the ai::: of the using goneiation of thoottM 4, The piesent hdiool committee is undoubtedly a truly lopiesentitivo one, and it might lia\u been more so hud I not ruthlessly thrown away all chance of election, by minuingly retuing a few yards, politely low ei ing i>iy antlered head, and, with increasing impetuosity advancing upon a Milling eitutm who proposed noininatmg me foi otlie. 1 , and thereby attempting to make me the future scapegoat of an ndinmistiationthat is sine to bo unpopular if it plays nut upon the key that suits the fastidious taste of tho day. As he dumped upon New Zealand with a groaning " (Mi ! ' the collision changed his .smiling ruddy conn tenaneo to one of pale-biue, squeamish appearance. The racei held hero the other day were dump, excessively damp, yet the people piesent, with tiue Mark Tapley-hke philosophy, enjoyed them in the rain. Yliniut anyone can bo jolly under pleasant cuciiii)ntjincm, hut it oolong* to the Te Awaimitu people to be jolly under adverse lines. At the races they were jolly nnd wet nnd muddy ; and muddy and wet and jolly, I am afraid the visitor* were disappointed, but better luck next tune, for if Te Anaiiiutii and Kihikihi join foicen in spatting matter, and the weather smiles sunnily on tho i)l)l')i), the next meet will, considering all the atliibuios appertaining to a raoe meeting, l»e.tr favourable comparison with any othrr that has taken placo in the North Inland, I had vrntten *n account full of summer Hindus, smiling facets, beautiful dre^sus, Aunt Sallies and all the other 11 ie". things that are, ur ought to he, on a racecourse, and it only wanted nlling in with the iiibi u raving uvents to make it a gloriotiKcoinpomtion, luit the confounded nun washed out all the leal and ide<il beauty of the day, and left nothing but di i//lmg, soaking niihtmess to write about, instead of the racy leport I intended to exhilaiate my readers with. But the rae«» are done, and ■o am I. Thu Rangiaohia Highway and Town Boaids jnet on Hntuid^y, l'Voin what I c»n glean of the matter tlioy havo arranged e\ cry tiling «atisf«ictoiily and pet luanently. A meeting of some of tho subscribers to tho Public Lilnary was held on Satuulny night to pass accounts, le-elcct officer* and perform other hnnincss of a general character. Te Awamutu has a flourishing library, therefore its inhabitants must read, and as reading bowtn thought, thu people must be thinkers- full of deop, duop thought that may Rome day surprise Now Zealand by fruttify»»g into energetic action, «nd thus nrnuse the commeicial apathy of the place, and Hond it along with the encoui aging hlioto it has becomo weary waiting for.