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NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 6

Man proposes, woman accepts him, and then frequently he goes and asks his friends to kick him for being such a damp-hool. When Whareroa won the Pony Race at. the Oeo races,' up Opunake Avay, the' Maoris put it down as much to the native bey's/ riding as the smaiM; little pony- "Ttye poy he ride all the way," said one Maori, "he ride all over the horse, too : the time he ride without the saddle he go from the tail to the head." A Palmerston contemporary,- . describing a newly-built hotel, states that one of the finest apartments is the "bridle" chamber. There is a suggestion that the paper's horse reporter was ati work, and reckoned thn t a couple just come from the "halter"* would naturally, rcfluije »