KAMO GOSSIP.

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 706, 9 July 1892, Page 2

KAMO GOSSIP.

Tom is getting on his feet again. The football match for his benefit came ofi last week, and was well contested. It was between the junior teams of the Whangarei and Kamo Clubs, and re suited in a win for the former. Tom will find it easier now to pay his morning visit to the baker's, as he has dispensed with the crutches. Who is the young lady that tells her friends that her best masher got hurt at the football match ? S. S. should always take care, that the coast is clear before he kisses two young ladies at the garden gate. The young damsel who so sweetly sang ' Please give me a penny, sir,' at a recent ' Open Lodge ' meeting, ought certainly to have obliged the rev. gentleman who said he would give a ' handful ' to hear it over again. Neighbourly love is at a discount in some parts of town, judging by the affectionate expressions used by some mammas to other mammas as to what some ' kids ' say and do to other ' kids.' Good gracious, mothers, don't squabble ; let the youngsters rip ; ' boys will be boys,' you know. I referred the other week to the ' saving ' element that was rampant here. Now I find there is a ' shaving ' mania on amongst our youths, and it certainly has this advantage over the former idea in tbat everybody can see the difference it makes, although in some instances perhaps there is too much ' lip ' in both. Whatever was the matter with the gentleman who set the type for the Marsden Times of the 29th June ? There were no less than thirty orthographical errors on the first page, and all of them of a most ludicrous character. The paper in question is not up to much at any time, but this week it takes the cake as a sample of badly spelt and ungrammatical information. ' Compos Mentis ' surely cannot read over the proofs, and yet methinks he has ample time to do so. The Kamo boys patronise the Wbangarei Rink in good style. This is another proof of how greatly we want a public hall here ; we are absolutely with out any amusement whatever. On dit that the ladies of Kamo are about to give a dance in the schoolroom. They deserve credit for their courage in trying it again, and it is to be hoped they will meet with success. Mark was at the rink on Monday with his girl; he*- is very constant and appears to be supremely happy. If Louisa could only have seen the owner of the clipped grey mare, as he escorted another fair damsel home the other evening, she would have quite understood his absence from Whangarei. Of course it was only politeness on your part, wasn't it Frank ? The horse that got hurt in the accident a few weeks ago and was sold to a vet. for 10s as being past curing is now getting on all right. Oh ! dear, don't you wish you hadn't sold it, George. It was very encouraging to see some of our Sunday School scholars the other Sunday passing the time away previous to opening the doors, by kicking a made up football about, and right in front of the church too. Of course, being good Sunday School boys it was all right, but if such a thing had been done by the ' wicked ' who don't attend, how awful would be the indignation of the Pure and Holy. Who was the party who sent to a certain Kamo Eesident a poetical leap year proposal and forgot to prepay the postage. The railway station is a nice place to mash in of an evening, isn't it, Joe? Some cf our loving ones prefer the Blue Gum Avenue, but the worst of tbat place is there are so many cattle about, and one is apt to stumble if not careful.

How is it that J.E. and H.G. are keeping clear of the upper boarding house lately ? Are they afraid of ma, or is it true that the peerless fascinating beauty, -Martha, has cast tbem off, and given, her affections to D.J. Beware, Martha, or there will be a demand for knives and pistolß some of these days.— Te Kuiti correspondent.