WAIPUKURAU.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 51, 1 September 1888, Page 2

WAIPUKURAU.

♦ ■ (from our correspondent.) Little of interest has eventuated here these last few weeks. Waipawa folk are very much exercised about the grand Exhibition that is to take at Christmas. They are so sanguine of success that, I believe, thsy actually contemplate covering the whole town with canvas— at least one is led to suppose so from the number of placards stuck about the the township with the imposing announcement, "Exhibition Grounds." It. is most desirable that it should be a success, such exhibitions are sure to do good. I am informed, "should sufficient inducement offer," the syndicate (good word that) who have the matter in hand intend getting a small engine, ao that workers in woods and others may show their skill on, the. groiroda

—here's a chance for Mm& t '-6fcyogfe'& smart benchmen, to distinguish selves, as well as any other, artizansjf:, r. •; On Tuesday evening about 30 per-; f sons' left Waipawa by special train .to! be; present at the Waipawa Orchestral,;; Society's grand concert, there, whiqK v I understand was a grand succea; Oil the same evening Mr R. Hare lectured -; in 1 Waipukurau, oh " Man, the Masterpiece/' to «, good audience. On Wednesday next we are to have in Wai Dukurau the; Bachelors* Ball, a sort of return to : the ladies' ;who got up the Leap Year Ball a few weeks back. It is rather amusing to an outsider the amount of feeling. and class distinction displayed, in this miserable little Pedhngton. appears that the people getting' up th« Ball of next week, are regarded by &oine as "eighteen-penny" people, and the "half-crown " folk of course are holding aloof, while those who possess a whole crown piece are shocked at the audacity of the firstmentioned getting up such an affair at all. • The Mutual Improvement Association still hold on, and some really capital meetings have taken place since I last wrote: Mr Wilson, of the Evening News, gave a lecture- .on "Mark Twain," which was most amusing, and if "to laugh is to get fat," the aggregate weight of the audience should have increased by a few tons. The last meeting of the Mutual was devoted to the Monthly Magazine, some interesting papers being read and discussed. Another gentleman from Napier is expected to give a lecture before the session closes. Could not the young men of Danevirke, of which I believe there are a great many, get up a Debating Society, and go in for a little mental culture so necessary to prepare them for the battle of life.