OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 16

OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

" Ccme along this afternoon, my dear friends, we are going to fire into the devil, anil sing praises to God." " Well," said old Jim, " fire away yerselves : I'll keep neutral, for I don't know into whose hands I may fall !" " Coming events cast theii shadows hef ore " — a settler is getting his buggy enlarged. A chorus to a new song — Oh, dear and dearest Sammy, Are you after writing verse? Keep at it, darling Sammy, You could scarce be doing worse. Sympathy for the maid(a). It is said that a certain settler is going to call his little girl " Khartoum," because she came into the world' Soudan-ly. "We promised a certain young lady that we would tell about a squeeze. We are going to try and do it, so listen to us, please : She was standing in the doorway, a young man by her side, when we heard her father call her ; and the daughter thus replied, "I cannot come, clear father, I'm engaged, now, can't you see? Leave off, you darling little brute ; I'm going in to tea." " Do I hurt you, darling little daisy?" said the young man. in a huff. '•' Yes you do, you little darling, by not squeezing me enough." The bridge of size — the future bridge over the Turn aid. One of the salvation soldiers said one day that he " owed everything to Jesus — and may Grod help him." I echo the prayer, for I think ii's not likely he will get much of a dividend from the army, as it all goes to the Creneral.