WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 161, 13 October 1883, Page 8

WAIKATO WHISPERINGS

The evergreen Cotton has revived cricket at Cambridge, and is coaching up the colts bravely. They intend to whip the whole district this season The dear, the fascinating, the suporaesthetic Don has gone to reside at the Dovecot once more. Bless his little heart. Now he has got a snug little nest, where is he to find the turtle dovetomaSe with? Richard Swiveller has gone roaming over to bleak Patetero Little Richardhas collapsed. ' The " Smoker's Delight " has smothered him. (There's a lesson in this — beware of treading on the Observer's tail. Ed.) What is keeping old Blunderbua so quiet lately? Has the price of coal anything to do with it, I wonder? We had a superb lecture from George A. Brown the other evening. George is good, but he piles it on too much. Hia allusion to the Medes and Persians, and the Goths and the Romans, and to the vexed question of social science may be all very good, but unfortunately his hearers did not understand a word ho said, with the exception of the more enlightened, such as the chairman at the tea-fight and the hodman. When George spouts again, he should have a preliminary rehearsal with word* of one or two syllables, and no " and ceteras." Honest John has been wiping the eye of the bold Chairman of the Works Committee. John has an optic on the Mayoral Chair again, and fears his opponent, so he has sought an opportunity to euchre him, and dealt himself a fair hand. His right bower was circled with a trimmed pathway border, and his little joker was a " graveller "... ...Mr Tippin is the comh)g Mayor of Hamilton. Like the great pro-Consul, he has discovered late in life (at a tea-meeting), that he possesses the power of moving masses, and a bright future opens up before him. If only 'is Hexcellency should come hup to 'amilton during his term of hoflice, 'c would be 'appy. The bulk of the burgesses are, however, deßirous that Mr Wm. Woods should come out. He would command the support of the upper suckles, but it is understood that he has no desire for the sweets of office; and, as Mr A. Jackson has lelt the place, the choice it restricted to two, or possibly three Who\'s»B the East Hamilton lady that did the blocflKn Victoi-ia-street last Saturday afternoon in Km shoes and red silk stockings ? Did Emily knit the cocks? The Minstrels intend giving another entertainment shortly. This time the proceeds are to be devoted to the benefit of La-la-lup, the world-renowned and accomplished acrobat Rumour is current in Hamilton that a certain grocer went to town the other day and " tied the knot." If so, it has been kept dark, but report says that when the business is removed to more commodious premises, the event will be made public. Ahem! Pat Kate and Little Charley should not be bo demonstrative spooning in public. People only laugh at their ignorance.. . ...His Worship is suffering from a severe attack of gravel, caused by being obliged to swallow a. large quantity " Peat." Thoy say he will v be i " Tippin " the beet man that can give him a cure, for he has been hoodwinked so often by Ann. Eliza The energetic Town Clerk is fosßicking for the percolating strata... The Commercial scarecrow has disappeared, and in his place we hay« I a good sample of coat and vest, with pants of a i different hue The George and the ! County Down lad appear to hit it immensely 1 together at Cambridge.

We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the Postal Guide for October, 1883. Don't Dik ik thb House. "Bough on Bats," clears out rats, mico, beetles, roaches, bed-bags flee, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. Moses' Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents. Labouk Report.— R. M. Heighten & Co., Labour Agents, 177, Queen-street, report :— Business has been fairly active; still a number of aen waiting engagements. Contractors are complaining of the want of men. We can Bupply them, if they give us a reasonable time to meet their wants ; but employers expect Labour Offices to have servants like goods in a warehouse, always ready waiting then: selection. We trust in future that they will be moro reasonable in their demands, and give us a little time, and we can m«et all their requirements. Our engagements have not been ■ so numerous this week. Tho question of female servants is always a knotty point in every country, and more especially in the colonies, where there seems to be a decided objection on the part of the girls to undertake domestic work, preferring the starvation wages and undermining-health, work of workshops and factories to the moro remunerative and healthful employment of ordinary household duties. Our educational system crams our frirls full of Greek and Latin. We wish the system taught them to cook, bake, wash, and milk, then we would uot have so much trouble in providing mistresses with the class of ger^ants they require. No alteration in wagoa from la*t week. The following teatimonal in reference to the efficacy of Hitchens' Blood Restorer speaks forWtself- —" Park Hotel, Auckland, September 21st, 188^-Mr Williams: Dear Sir,— Hearing fro xa Mr Hitchens that you are agent for hie Blood Restorer, I have pleasure in testifying to its wonderful properties as a cure for rheumatism. Yon know whut a martyr I was to it. When on the coast I tried every remedy that I heard of to no purpose, until I was induced to try Hitchens' Blood Bestorer and ointment, and am happy to say that it has perfectly curod me. lam now six months exposed to all weathers, and have not felt the least symptoms of it. Before I took it I was a complete cripple ; could not walk without the support of sticks and for six weeks at a tune conld not leave my bed. I state a few of the thine* f tried for it to no purpose : — ladi Potass, Guneum, Goilah's Indian Mixture, Turkish Boths, White or Sulphur Island; I woe also ia Greymouth and WangauKi hospitals, and revived very little benefit from any of ikem. I was very 111 when first I took it, but, after a few bottles, it took away all pain. lam now as well.oa ever I wa« ia nay life. I hay« coffered so much from tho eosipJaist that I think ifc would be a nwflect of #oty not to ta&\e ii kvowa «b undt J aa fOMible.~-7QQB y««ra teely, Jest* 0.-w. SAmaov." 1