"LTZA" on THINGS in GENERAL, AND CONCERTS IN PARTICULAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 24, 3 July 1880, Page 4

"LTZA" on THINGS in GENERAL, AND CONCERTS IN PARTICULAR.

'TO 3!HE EZtfTOB OF TTJB BTAB.

Dear Mr. Editor, — I'm just come tack from "Roving round," and — ■would you believe it? — I'h hardly "time to give 'Liza a buss before she 'was at me to write to you and tell jou what had been going on in Hawera while I've been away, and about what I'd seen myself. Well, to 'fcegin. First, I've been looking up some 0' me Taranaki friends. Fine place, Taranaki, and fine folks be some it' Taranaki people — some big pumrtins in Taranaki ; and some t' folks ; ain't no small pumkins neither. Some « on urn travel ; some they go to Waitara and Inglewood sometimes, and know some'at too. They be awful ■clever — I knows all about it. Why ? Cause they sez so. If yer meets one 'am, you bet, in five minutes, yer knows how they do this and that in Taranaki. My eyes, can't they go it some ! They does some grand" things up there, I tell yer, and they all'us does the thing propetly. Ter should ace the 'arbor works, and the iron sand factories, and the grand Town Halls, and yer should hear the musical society, and yer should see all the — the — the everything — wonderful — can't be beat, no how. Taranaki beats all creation, 'cepting Wanganui. They ha' got some " gas" in Wanganui, and some in Taranaki. S'pose they'll be laving some in Hawera some day, when they have a new Town Board. Liza, she war awful disappointed that there war'nt no fresh Town Board, arter all. She have made up her mind to have nought but mucky streets, for ever so long. She sez there ought to be some Taranaki or Wanganui people in t' Board, to show 'urn how to do it right ; and she wants ter know if any body owns all them 'osses and things that goes prowling 'bout t' streets at night. She tumbl'd over a cow one night coming fro' church ; a boy said it was a bobby's, and Liza said she thowt so. Liza be awful glad that there be so many doctors coming to Hawera, cause there be such a nice smell near to t' brewery, that she's sure some o' t' people 'ul be wanting some fisick. Liza have been awful giddy-like lately. I think she be gone music mad. She be awful ekstravagant too. All t' work at 'ome be put t' one side for her to go to concerts, and buying things to go wi'. Golly, t' draper have had some 0' Liza's money lately (leastways mine). Last Tuesday she rigg'd hersel' out, and me too, and tuk me to t' Scotch church concert. Lor, 'ow she did like it, to be sure. She be awful fond 0' childer, and "w'en them chiider sung, I thowt Liza war going to dance for joy. Ter shud a' been there, Mr. Editer ; it war reely good ; and yer didn't say much 'bout it in t' paper. There were songs and choruses, and so-los, and. duetts, and readings ; it wur splendid ; yer mun be sure to go to t' next un. Liza be agoing to save 'er money, and get that Mr. Music-man to teach her; and then she be going to join t' church choir and t' new musical society — that is, if it are genteellike, and as good as t' one up i' Taranaki.

Next night we went to t' Town 'All, to hear t' concert. That war nice — very. What war that man doing wi' that stick? Lor, didn't he go it! How his poor arms must a* aked t' next day. Liza sez she'll get all her sisters, and uncles, and aunts, and everybody to join t 1 society, and sing at t' next concert. They be all good singers ; leastways, they sez so. Liza sez she knows yer war at the concert, cause there was such a lot in t' Star about it; and she sez yer not near such a nice man as she thowt yer was ; else you'd never a' pull'd t' things to pieces so. She war awful savage, I tell you, and said she warn't a* going to let her sisters, and uncles, and all on 'urn be going there to be pull'd to pieces like that ; and them a- working so nice and a-singing so nice too. Well, I war getting fear'd that she'd come strait away, and have a hinterview with yer right off; so I just gave her one o' my piercing glances (that ftllus brings her to), and sez I, " Liza, ver be a f — . Well, yer awt ter know better ; t' newspaper man he war quite right ; yer know werry well that some o' t' concert warn't o'er good ; and do yer think he was going to puff 'em up and flatter 'em, so that they'd think they war perfect, and had no room ter mend ? No, I shud think not, indeed. Why, don't yer see now he's been and told 'em 0' their faults, they'll be trying to do better t' next time. He as much as says they be good singers, and are only a bit timid, for want o' practice. Well, if they practice well, that'll make 'em better singers, and get 'em used to it too. Then they'll not be so timid, don't yer see, Liza ?" Liza " seed," but said yer might a' said that some on it war better than yer did. > Now, Mr. Heditor, I think you said just the right thing, and I owt ter know, caus' all our family are big singers and musicians. Why, my sisters and me, and my brothers and grandmothers, be all tip-top, and I ehud think I owt ter know. I wonder what they*< 3a* clone in Wangaaui and Taranaki, if it hadn't been for me and niy sisters, &c. ? You just give it

'em hot and strong next time, and they'll be like Liza — honor yer all the more for it. Liza be a-making a tiptop di*ess for t' next concert, and she sez if yer'll just drop in and have a cup 0' tea wi' her and me on Sunday arternoon, yer can see the new dress, and receive her forgiveness at t' same time. I hope yer'll come, for I want yei* to see " Our oars with feathered spray," in t' " Smiling mora," avter t' " Larboard watch," and so " Here's a bumper." — Good-bye from yours truly LIzA & rOVEE hArriSS.

[We might inform Liza — and, through her, the general public — that we cannot attend entertainments, meetings, &c, on either Tuesday or Friday evening, as we are top busily engaged in preparing for the publication of our paper for the following morning. Had the concert at the Presbyterian Church taken place on any other evening, we should have been only too glad to be present, and to have devoted more space than we were able to bestow upon the last one. As Liza's anger has softened down a little, we shall be glad, some day, to accept her kind invitation to tea. — Ed. Star.]