TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 27 October 1885, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

\[\ punctuality m remitting letter- to you has been somewhat L\ of Lite. The only e\cu-e 1 can advance for tlien tardy and eirdtic appearance h that I have been busily engaged "ruralumg." The scent of the clover has not c\ en jet departed from me, and it sadly inteifeies with the wilting up of the vast amount of gossip that has accumulated during the period of my dissipation among tho buttercups and dairies. Ht. Leon's ciicus and menagerie opened here the other night to a first class house, or rather pavilion. The view of the animal kingdom of this mammo'.h show w is worth all tho monoy charged for admission to the collective whole. The pair of magnificent tigen, who would, I am sure, be ad\ocates of " Fiee Trade," leaving the side opposed to them to study "Protection," and supplicate for it, oven with terror and teai^, gained many admirers, as did also the bears, leopards, camels, and ponies, but the ccntro of attraction was the cage containing the monkeys, for these cute animals made even their gravest visitors laugh at thenquaint human-like antics. Monkeys have by Rome been looked upon as "the mitsing links " in the theoretical problem of human growth. I would not be inclined to seaich up evidence to prove the idea, for under that theory I think tho missing link" had better for ever lemam lo^t. The very association degrades humanity, and does not even honour the monkeys. Poveity— not to offend, say "veiy up-haidedne->s"—is the moan that now tumbles through the. length and bieadth <<f beauteous New Zealand. The "cashless" sitjh is a spuiious one, for letsoniegie.it show, ioyal parade, or popular movement take place, and the wailing sigh is umaciiloiisly changed to one of expensive laughter, which all easily find tho money to indulge in. Poveity, avaunt 1 the fatnpss of the liind is 00/, ing out of it, and the horn of plenty faileth not. Dairy prospects are looking gloomy. Butter is being returned fiorn Auckland as> unsaleable, or retained at such a price as to make thoso trading in it elongate their visages until the f miner beauty of then countenances lobes all its pleasant roundness, in sharp, angular disappointment. The cheese factory is jogging along, and by the comae it has adopted, namely, classification of the quality of tho milk sent in, it has done the district great good. A striving desne to obtain top price for good milk will be inculcated in tho fanners' minds, and they will buy or bleed cattle, and feed them too, to get it. The success of making butter for Auckland or other markets is doubtful, but the success of the factory is sure to become an established fact. Besides, the local industry is all your own, and you farmers aio trying hard to strangle your " pet " by the selhih line of action you adopt. Loso not flight of tlie futuie dollar in your sci amble for the present penny. To make things pleasant and put everybody in good humour I will conclude this letter with tho following little anecdote, which bai a local application if you only know how to apply it :—" Oh, you flatter mo, "drawled a masher to a pretty, yonng girl with whom he was conversing. "No I don't," was the reply ; "you couldn't be any ' flatter ' than you are."

Always have the courage to speak youi mind, but mind to whom you A KifMrnvMAN at Youngstown, 0., after experinientniE; for tlnee yeais, has secured a process by which with one heating old &tepl rails can be transformed into steel tools and steel castings of evciy description leady for use. A company is Leing organised to utilise the process. £100 Krw \ud.— They cure all diseases of the stomach, bowels, blood, hvit, ncn<s, and kidnr>s, .md £100 will be :.aid for a c.ise they will not cure or h<-lp, o. for anything impure or injurious found in them — Hop Bitters. Genuine only m«d,e by Am,ecic*n Co.