TAURANGA.

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 50, 27 August 1881, Page 580

TAURANGA.

— The Rev. McL. appears to have created a good impression. — So our worthy medico and erstwhile champion of scientific iinprobabilties has at last seen the error of his ways. — Now that the brewery has started under the new management, when may the happy event he consummated ? — The representatives of our various religious denominations are hard at work in the interests of their respective Churches, and the competition waxes warm. — The Eclectic Society is advancing. The erudite (?) reader o£ a recent paper, after premising that creation was originally brought about by a " fortuitous concourse of atoms," endeavoured to prove that we were all descended from fishes ! Where's Darwin now ? — Did the chairman, pro tern., of the E. S. on Tuesday week imagine he was presiding at a meeting of ratepayers assembled to exercise the inalienable right of true-horn Britishers ? The way he called for an expression of opinion on that natural finale to such a gathering — the vote of thanks— was immense. Ay ! ay ! — Our footballers have again been beaten. This should not be, as as we have by far the greater number to choose from. However, we have ourselves to blame. Even when a team is chosen (as for instance to play the Katikati match) they never practice together. It is a very rare occasion on which a dozen club members roll up ©n Saturday afternoons. — -A horrible discovery was made on (or oft") the track between this and Te Puke, the other day. Two young gentlemen, after liberal propitiatory offerings at a certain shrine of Bacchus, were suddenly seized with the brilliant idea that they wanted change of air and scene, and forthwith started for that newest of new settlements — the "Pee-uk." They had not j)roc°.eded far upon their journey before it began to vain in torrents, and, to add to their discomforts, darkness set in. Totally ignorant of this (or any other) locality, they determined to remain in the bush all night, they therefore sought shelter under the trees, when — gentle reader of this veracious narrative, judge of the appalling effect on two young men whose nerves were already strung to their utmost tension, and wnose perceptive faculties after their numerous whiskies were increased to an inordinate degree — they trod upon a dead body! Kecoiling in dismay from this new development, they passed a sleepless night of unmitigated misery within a few yards of (as they supposed) the evidences of a most horrible and atrocious crime. When morning broke, summoning up what little courage remnined, they went to view the body, and discovered it to be a — pig ! It is needless to add they returned to their respective homes soberer if not' wiser men.