TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1977, 10 March 1885, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Thk election of licensing commissioners went off a-> such affairs u-.u.illy do, ami resulted m the appointment of five members in whom the latepayers testified their confidence by returning thorn with a large majority. The teetotal cum-inodcratton party must be \ery weik indeed, which concluiion 1 an ivo »t from the published state of the poll. I would ci'itunly advise leadeia of paities to seeuie tin 1 help of their supporters by placing their name*, if eligible, on the roll, for wh it good n tlio will of f i UMids if they have not the p m er to aid. Several ratepayer lost their privilege to vote by not being on the mil. In my experience of political life, I have always found bitterness, more or Iphs, the outcome of electioneering diplomacy, and the worst bitterness of .ill is the bitternos of misplaced confidence, resulting in griping disappointment. An attempt was made to create a little good-natuted fun in this solemn flitch-uf-bacon, undesen incr frontier town of Upper Waipa, by good-huinouredly caricitiiiing one of the candidates and sticking the sketch on a telegraph post. As a saperbly excellent account of it has already appeared in your columns, I refrain from inflicting a second edition of it on the readers, and merely mention the matter as an item of gossip. The town board accepted its first tendon for town improvements on Saturday last. The board has been lucky in seeming the services of Mr Maunders as clerk, for he is a man respected by all for his independent integrity. But, confound politics and all other knavish tricks, I eiodly turn to more congenial composition. The band played on the "green" on Saturday night, and a gentleman told me they played better than e\ er he had heard them play before, and lie was one of the "oldest inhabitants," and a musical cntie at that. More power to them I bay, may their " bellusses" last for ever. The gentlemen composing the school and band committees have decided to give the children of the district school a picnic on Friday next. Anyona can write a report of it after it is over : I send my readei .-) an anticipatory account of it now. The Cavalry Band, in full force and regimentals, will assemble at the schoolhouse at 10 a.m., and fall in behind a file of resident clergymen, who, availing themselves of the oppoitunity, will hasten with gladness to assist, and sanction with thejr presence the efforts of the committee to give the children the pleasant day's outing they so well deserve, and which, by the gathering together of parent*, friends, nnd acquaintances, will form a communion that will beget good fellowship, that will beget friendship, that will beget charity— which is love, the essence of Christianity. The children, diessod a-s mothers proud of them delight to dress them, and nearly all of them carrying a " little drummer" flag in thenhands, and arranged in their places by the '•colonel," with military xiniformity, will fall in behind the band and follow it to the reoroation ground, stepping bravely out to the tune of a lively inarch. On the band ceasing to play, the children will .simultaneously warble out the following : — Come and inarch around with me, Come and inarch around with me, March to the meadow, march to the meadow, March to the old shady tree. The baud will then pl.vy another march, followed by the childten singing — () ! the morning light, morning light, Welcome, welcome, cheering light ! We will quickly haste away To speud a joyfu l happy d»y. These pleasant melodies, tmng by the children while on the inarch, and lengthened by lepetitton, will stir up the luteners' feelings and make them forget the wony of (l.u)y cues, and in imagination return to that blissful— as compared with the present — period of th«*ii existence when they weie, like the children they were smiling at, happy m the innocency of their juvenile intentions. Tin ice blessed would we be if all inn intentions were based on innocency now ! They reach the paddock, the nceno of thoir festivities, dohle through the gate into it, and being dismissed from discipline,

scatter, in their gl.ulins->, liko n ¥ u)\ cut flowers, thrown on the* besom of a gliding stro.im. That's .ill this time. BILL\.