HAMILTON SOUTH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 23

HAMILTON SOUTH.

JuiiE £s.— Everything up here is pretty much at a standstill jus!; now. For some time paht Mother Gooj~e with her bag of feathers, and Jack Frost with his iron grasp, have been in deadly strife as to who shall hold possession of the laud, and no sooner one seems to get a little better of the other than the clerk of the weather comes along with bis watering can, and washes them out again. For some weeks past every mountain and hill around here has been covered in a pure white mantle. Amusements.— Theladymemberaofourquarlrille club are in the condition Fielding used to think of when eating tarts made of curiant jelly. The opposite sex ia in such a majority th%t I have been told the demand on the feminine commodity is bo great that once a month, in order that they may have one dance per month on au average allround, they have what they call an extended night — that is, they extend the dance until midnight. I would suggest that some of the superfluous men folk send an order t j some of your Dunedin dressmakers for, say, a doz j n nicely made dresses, which should always be kept on hand, so that when there is a dearth of the genuine article some of the more effeminate-looking young men might attire themselves in feminine apparel and thus supply the demand.