TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 1 October 1885, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

To .uuusp the public and in. ike them laugh li .1 good thing. Td amuse tiio public ami make tlifiii pm I*l by thocliaiit »Wle tlxmphts th.it .uunsunient in.iv awakm is a bettei tiling To ;um>o tin 1 public and m.iKe society of .ill grades belt 'i inclined tow aids e.ic l ) otliei, tli.it incbmtion to mine extended kindness being pioducd by tli.it ili-ti ict mental asMK'i ition, oi ->vinp<JthoLic .illmity tlio more act of leading the liter.v v Uilli' affords, is surely better still, and ; -.up r iM'ly so wlien the lessening ineriinent |>r<i\ok<d liy cindij witticism, ti i Jerly swiiouid-, a-. sunnm-i dew doe* tin) opening bin). tllß new bun baby thought ">l g<> -dm -.-. it niy |ji*ii*li vice lute into oMstenc". It i^ im easy ni.ittei to iai-e i laugh, fm tin* i i-il >*i f. Miltien of in. in Lind.iK ni \nl.vti!<> as <juiL*koilvei, but tin* trie it |»>iut in tin* tttuit is to make tin 1 d*, rig echoes of in le irigi v* ions eiiMoii--lau/liti l wail i >iit in we'rd-liko l.niieiit that tliey aie <• illid up >n to n-i lliu it. Liutrlitt-i of this kiml ■■■ nut \*. h ileto ne but latliti the irni|Miit Mf^n if diseased intellitt, tKiiiiiin/iios', nipathv.fi'i likodninkeiiiiO'sit Hs If imposed. JiUt, stop! wo all know tli.it to eu is Inini.ui, so I'll tell you of the i mm? ways of To Awamutu. Slio is pnmd with the pudo ot ipnoiance, repentni},' hei pi ewnii fiilhe-i, oi lather her physical inability to continue them, and making .i Mituuof necessity, she in her seeming hcantity looks down fintn her pcrJest.il of "elf conceit, and fiowns, with a bittei btow, on tin* siiib of otheis, whose scailet •.tain a little snap and water would w'a~h out and lease the linen they had besmiulged pmei and whitei than the dirty snowy, as ie&iids coldness nut wlntene.s-, appaiel she affects. Of the new buildings, LiiwhS Hotel ranks fiist mi account of its si/c, nichitectu.il beauty, and palatial npiieninncc It is a two stoned building, emliraceit on iti frmit sides by a vci.indah and balcony, tlio lattei fottuin^ an extensive piomenade, fiom wlneh vantage giound the cnltnated gieen of Huio|)ean occupation and the piuuitne bion/o of uncultured Maniidmn nny be viewed with that delight a beautiful pinhpect .d ways gnes as well as with th.it nr jiioviiig ad vantage — becau.se anything that mutes coirect, bay kindly thought must in the latiouinatioii of reasoning bo advant igoous to tho mind indulging in it -tlio coin]uiiMm of the differ. ent views aff<ird. All the artisans engaged in the snpeistiuctiue must feel pi mid of tlio effect of their handiwork, for it is * oredit to tho architect who conceived it; the buildeis who build it ; tho decor.itoi who be uitided it, as well as the man who pay\s fm it. The chimney stacks bear, asitweio, on then ornamental hiftdrf tuu ciowns that stamp the ediliee with their royal nmngificiencfi its PxtciiMvenChS claim?, and thuy are inouunieutal to tho nrti.stiu skill of then eiectoi. Thoie, that i> just my luck, as I wmra l<* my subject, thu candle goes out ; o\ciybnrty is in bed ; the mttches placed wiieie '«> bodj but, tho careful pl.iccr can lin.i tlii-m, and my beautiful desciiptien is "n.;'i'e'l in the bud " and I h.ue only sputtenug light enough to liaitily wiito, (To be continued in my i lCxt ) IiIJAA.

A row ml is offered (• thp , rcco\rry of a slu'i-p di if, lost at Cainbrnl V « <"-t "" Monday. lhe Hoard of 1 .lan.'-'". \nrklnnJ, mutes lenders for .iddition n'"l improvements to the Cambridge West i< li.-'l, -«n.] tor tin- erection of a »chool buildir" )^uic\\,u, uear Huntly.