TOKO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2765, 6 July 1894, Page 2

TOKO.

(FBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) To use a historical phrase, " Someone has erred." Tour own forgot to put in a. comma or else the "devil" left it out for mischief, and behold the result. Oatijr paragraph of my last notes contained the* astounding assertion that under certain conditions the settlers of Toko would be " wildly gesticulating thunder." No, they can't do it ; it takes Edwin to do a thing like tbat. ' We bave a J.P. at last. -I wonder if that is an error, too; I'm inclined to think so, for if is was only known how much tbe Toko people want one it would be the last thing in the world they would get, for we were instructed in our youth v that to always get what we want is bad for vi; and now I'm given to understand that theßß same Toko peop'e are finding out that it is a lesson which applies to old age as well. Their J.P. sees a great deal more of Stratford than he does of Toko: Being » bachelor, I suppose home is not %o i attractive to Mr Buttler as it would, be if Q he had a fair partner of the opposite sex, to share the honor. , „ ','*"' - Government have mad 6 £ happy, choice, and though it is a&id that almost all tbe gentlemen are retiring from tb« bench, mt least there are some stepping io to fill their places, and Toko can congratulate itself, and petition the Government, for another, though not forgetting to ask that he may be a little oloser atid— ¥-{?ariouß other things. . ■ ' < * "J The inclement _ state of the weather last week greatly affected the aitendanoe at the "court"" held by the' Debating Society. Nevertheless, a good number turned up, and not one regretted it. ». The judge and lawyers were arrayed 'in wigs and gowns, while a policeman^ (5. Ifet nothing) had a terrible tussle <with tome contemptuous spectator, and eventujuly coming out victorious,, especially when the, said offender .was fined £s 'tot contempt of court. The lawyers acquitted themselves very well ; and Miis Amelia . was awarded the amount of £8 19s ll}d to soothe her lacerated heart, thef amount to be paid off at the rate of Jd per month. I hear there is (by request) a likelihood'of it being repeated in the hall at some future date. , * ' 5 It is not often one hears of a school committee getting what they never asked for, but that is the happy condition of the Toko Sohool Committee. The ohairman reoeived a notlfioatiouirom the board that " tbe alteration in the school houri would be granted as requested." , : Probably some mistake has occurred, for the committee and, teacher are qtiite* satisfiea with the hours as they are at" present. - ', ; <U- -.-.'; Everyone is complaining of the jtimes. Even our jolly friend Mr Campbell stands at tbe door of bis " show " like Caderonk* of Monte Oristo .fame, waiting for the travellers to came. No few of him getting ■ short sighted now* He e&n almoßt see round the first corner „ to Stratford. Of course no one ever needi a warning when anyone is coming down the East road,' as the splash, splaihipf a horse oan be heard long before they ire " 'seen. „ i_, ,r\ ''