ON DIT.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 11, 16 May 1885, Page 3

ON DIT.

The great fiddler Remenyi has succeeded in amusing a large number of fiddlers —first fiddlers, second fiddlers, fiddlers’ fiddlers, and fiddlers of fiddlers —whose versatility of genius is not by any means, like the above professional, confined to fiddling upon one sort of instrument, but who can knock a tune out of any mortal instrument in the world. They are, in fact, nearly all base fiddlers.

rebuke administered to the natives by the Judge of the Native Lands Court on Tuesday, when he told them they “ had evidently failed to attend at the opening of the Court in order to prevent the case proceeding,” must have caused much amusement to ones,” who are credited the natives into the belief that the Court would be held at another place, in the hopes that the subdivision would be effected before the mistake could be found out. The whole thing reminded us of the captain who knocked the sailor overboard, and then, when the man scrambled aboard again, tying him up and flogging him for attempted desertion and leaving the ship without leave. A dense subscriber wishes to know whether the advertised challenge to play a friendly (?) game at draughts for £6 or £lO a side is for draughts of beer, and whether “ long sleevers ” or pints are the recognised weapons. He is willing to contest providing he is allowed choice of ground, otherwise he would require long odds. The “White Elephant” has had a grand feed at last, and a 200 sheep meal is expected to last him for some months. His keepers may now find ample employment in grooming and cleaning him.

The song “ Tommy make room for vour unde ” —which has been varied by an alteration to “ Tommy make room for your own child”— has had such an effect upon the nerves of the trident bearing sea god as to cause him to go fishing for comfort in Australian waters. It is understood that he would not have left these shores had it not been that he has a great aversion to small fry.