WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 61, 12 November 1881, Page 132

WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

— Billy is so devoted to tennis, that even the shandrydan is forgotten. — •' The Majah " has been gaining ground so rapidly of late that he begins at last to think a slice of the Puniu by no means unlikely. — Tawhiao, like Artemus Ward's young friend, who is described as "setting on to a barrel," says he'll be dam if he goes to the war. — A pretty little scandal is going the rounds of the gossips of Hamilton just now, and as the old one is pretty well worn, it is a particularly sweet morsel. The subject is a painful one, but as it is fast becoming public property, I may send you something more next week, — Mr William Johns, poet, philanthropist, and land leaguer, talks about coming out for Waipa, but I don't believe ho has the pluck. A reputable follower of the policy of Sir George would have a show, but not William. Besides it has been decided that in stonewalling tactics " dropping into poetry " is not allowed. — Words cannot paint the consternation Avhich reigned in the breasts of the great financial Tommy and his colleague, Bob, when they found that the nomination papers had, like the lost sheep, gone astray. Cambridge, the " biggest town in the Waikato," the seat of commerce and learning, the very hub of the universe, to be disfranchised ! The very thought is death. The finances of the Waikato County are in danger once more, that is to say if the toss of the penny should favour Bob's candidature.