TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Thk town is improving rapidly, and its compact corrugated iron, as well as closeboarded, fences would delight the mind of any enterprising bill-sticker who saw them. Such an opening for paste and splutter and posters ! All styles of architecture exist ; some of them are all jumbled up in one building, which has a touch of the Roman, the Grecian, the Corinthian, the Doric and the Gothic. Even the smaller buildings are affected by the "grander," and "lean-to ' them. In rainy weather a person, standing at the post-office and suddenly desiring to cro^s the road, has to check his locomotive impulsiveness, ntudy the situation, and explore for the plank, which is hidden in the mud somewhere about, for if he misses it ho plumps over his boot-tops into Te Awamutu slush, and that ruffles his Christian placitude and makes him compose hasty .sentences, in which naughty adjectives predominate. The cheapest commodity hero i-. candles. They are ~>\d a pound; still the people bump each ether in the pitchiness of their darkness. The rink club rattles on apace, and the aim and end of graceful beauty seems to be to glide through life on wheels. Te Whiti has again been arrested for inciting the Maoris to breaches of the peace. His religious— fanatical, if you prefer the term — power among his people does not reflect much ciedit 'ipon th»» ii.ission.iry effoits of the piescnt day. Superstition and heathenism, in a land hvporcntically famous for the s.incrity of its European inhabitants, beautifully proves the bd->it, of the Christianity which they profess to be "our own dear sohes," Jesuitical in its piofound egotism. Theio! I'm .sharply desired, in words of slow empha^i/e-l mildness, to leave oft scribbling rubbish and rock a cradle. 1 quickly obey, with an aleitnesstli.it is tune honoured, and .swing a dirly-nosrd cheiub of innocency m oblivion. While doing m>, a violet in the button-hole of mv coat catches my eye, and to the rhythm of the locking I jeikingly chant the follow ing .— VIOLETS. Pepping from »\uth With fragiancp sweet ; T r ndoi the oa\ rs Of sheltering le i\t\ They nestle in beauty. On blonder stem, Kiom frill of gieon, They Minle in bloom, T.» laiely pluinc Edith's bosom with purple. Royally lobed, Ciouned with perfume, The \iolets toll What nehes dwell In humble pin ity. RdUgiaohid sons and daughters ha\p instituted a (t.uiuiig el.is^ -no ! no ! not a dancing cl.iss, but a quadidlc paity, which is held in the school loom once <i month. Vc ! bolles of To Awmutu! look to join 1. nil els, or, vmir country cousins will eclipse yon, as xesLilsof the nimble feet, at futuie cax.ihy or aiistaciotic "hops." 1 A ball took place at Patnrangi on Fnday evening last. Rupiesentitues of the dis-* tiict formed the committee, and they proved their ability for management, by tho successful issue. The bache-

lois of P.itiiangi h.ivc been advertising foi "wive-." f do not know if any of them h.ive succeeded in annexing "a pudner for life, ' hut they will more readily obtain then desm; by tfivinj; dancing partii s than they would by constant advertisiii^ for the. girls who never eorne. Store building at Otoroh.uiga is not an unmixed Messing, as the natives obstruct the proceedings as an oncr«»achiiit-nt on their '• native fern." And they are quite right, for is not European occupation of the place according to freethought principles, « Usurpation of the countiv?