WAIKA TO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 55, 1 October 1881, Page 44

WAIKA TO WHISPERINGS

— Who'll "boss" St. Peter's choir when the parson goes? Huppy thought; there's a vacancy for you, William. ■ — What -was that local a friend of mine picked v}) at the back of Pearce's Hotel last Saturday evening, and why did he not mention it in the Times ? — Miss IT. and Miss ON. -were the only ladies who ventured on the lawn in front of the grand-stand at the Cambridge races. — The report that the little barmaid has left in order to be sent to a hoarding-school is untrue. Her education is considered quite sufficient. — How is it. no mention has been made in yoiir columns to the wife heating over the"rivnh?" 'is it becnuse the principal actors belong to the " Jam Tart " portion of our community ? — 'Die grand fancy dress ball comes off some time in October. The cards of invitation are out, and already there is quite n. stir among the milliners. One of the Hamilton sisterhood in anticipation of a rich harvest has migrated to Cambridge. — '• It is a dirty bird," &c, says a certain proverb which hns been verified here lately. The Hamilton milkman writing ton contemporary from, CnmhrUhjc, says everybody is leaving Hamilton for the city on the Cam, because they can do more business there. How is this thusness. I must enquire into the subject. — The entertainment, in Cambridge on vnee night for the purpose of augmenting the book fund of the public library wn3 fairly successf ul. the latter part entirely so. The comedietta of " The Little Sentinel " has been played better even hy amateurs, but I don't believe it ever gave more pleasure. The lady amateurs did their portion well, but the soul of the play was without doubt the brave " Dwagoon " of Mr Keesing. — I am told tli at at a meeting of the Jockey Club a few days before the races it was decided ■unanimously that all the stewards should sport white belltoppers, and so they did — all except the doctor, whose native modesty would not allow of his assumption of so responsible a headpiece. lam told also that Hewitt and Frank Eose went in Helmets, but as they did not show up among the bony long, of course I didn't see 'em. — Jim Buekland went to Cambridge the other day for the purpose of astonishing the natives with the polished elegance of his reading. He succeeded in giving the fullest pleasure to the select audience of six men and three boys gathered to hear him, and doubtless would have electrified the whole of the population had they been there. The truth is, however, that the alphabetical parson of St. Andrew's has been coining it too strong lately, and folks are dropping down to it. Not long ago he held a " swarry " just a night or two before the concert in aid of the Catholic Church, and knowing that the Library Committee intended getting up an entertainment for race night, he made arrangements with the talented son of an old identity to spread a net for the purpose of catching all the littleminuowa marked by the Library fishers. "With what success his little manoeuvre was attended, let the empty benches of Wednesday and the packed house of Thursday night testify. — The Cambridge races on Thursday, the 22nd Sept., had the advantage of fine weather, and proved to be of a very respectable order. The two principal events of the day turned out to be complete sells, Stanley beating Grand Duchess hollow for the Cup, and Harkaway, through a stupid mistake on the part of Sportsman's jockey (Wilson) coining past the post first in the Steeplechase. The rest of the running was all creditable, but ns your sporting contributors will doubtless furnish yon with full details I will merely add that the attendance at the course was good ; probably a thousand people were present, and that in the absence of music they passed the waits as pleasantly as they could, lunching at one another's traps, and gulping down the nectar supplied hy host Camp of the " Tamahere." Ladies were few and. far between, but those who were there, if they did not possess the form and features of angels, were at least arrayed in garments more befitting the denizens of some bright particular star than those of this sordid earth. Among the most noticeable costumes were one of deep red and one of peacock colour.