COROMANDEL.

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 717, 24 September 1892, Page 18

COROMANDEL.

The Nelßon and Rover footbillers, from the Thames, paid us a visit on the 3rd Sept., and of course oar girls were all deligh'ed to see them. I think it's a real shame that they leave our boys in the cold whenever any visitors poke their noses around our way, and making us all a convenience at other times. Whenever any footballers are mentioned as coming" from the Thames, they go into ecstasies ; and if nob down in large numbers to meet them, they make up for it when they are leaving, as the wharf is sometimes hardly large enough to hold them. Talk about sad farewells and loving partings ! Why, it's nothing to it, and the next time we know the Thames boys are coming, it would be as well to provide an onion for each of them.

...The Whitiangas were also over at the same time, but they fared nearly as bad as our chaps.. ..Eva was one of the offenders, and the way she marched off with a dark young fellow from the Thames (who is always visiting us) to the dance, made Jack's hair ruffle. It's rough, Jack, and any little thing like that is annoying.... Florrie, who has just returned to our midst, seemed quite at home with the visitors, and says she would love to be at the Thames. ...l think Nellie is in the same box. as I spotted her piling on the agony pretty thick at the dance, and ' bai jove ' she just knows the way, now that she has learnt a few wrinkles in Auckland.. ..Two or three of them seemed to be keeping one young man warm out at the match. I noticed him taking notes, so he no aoubt was one of the special correspondents present from Quartzopolis....L.H. and her friend were about the only ones that did not det-ert us, but perhaps they did not get any 'intros.'...Our only dude was evidently displaying his abilities at the dance, but jam is cheap now, Jack.. ..Eva was casting side glances at the barrister, and says he's such a lovely danenr. W. 8.. who also is a. regular visitor, was right bower with Baby... Sarah, one of our leading nightingales, has left for Auckland, and all the boys are whistling, ' Wi 1 she no come back ag in ?'...1 believe L>. caught a cold through standing under the verandah the night of the dance, and if so, it's a moral the other one did....' Are you in for a raffle ?' is frequently asked down here. Evidently G. (I'm told that's his name) won one, judging by the way he blushed when asked about the ducks.... The men off the Ohinemuri did look odd alongside our great big tall girl.... Nellie says our boys are slow alongside the Thames boys. She says they have a real hard case amongst them.... One young man from the Thames, who goes by the soubriquet of 'The Dreamer,' was the life of the town on Sunday with his yarns. He tells them very we11.. ..1t is really amusing to hear all girls asking as to who is the 0.M., and first Jack, and then the postman is blamed, but if they want to know me, 1 will be in readiness with a bull dog and a gun on the bridge next Sunday evening about 8 p.m. ...I would ask (before closing these few lines) our girls to be a little more reserved next time the footballers visit us, and dis^ tribute their favours equally, instead of giving us the back seat, as any little thing like that makes you awfully careful, aon't it, N.?

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