TARADALE

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 952, 27 March 1897, Page 22

TARADALE

S Or was all there showing the family home with a lantern from the Band of Hope. Look out for I ...There is great competition for Miss T's company between JJ,<J H, and PB. JJis at evens. Xj B done 'brown.'. .Who was the young lady.C C lent hi-j bike to the other Sunday night when she fell amongst the church people ?...!' S seems very lonely since her best boy went away. Never mind, F ; he will be back soon, as he doesn't like the place a little bit. .O P looked positively charming going home arm-in-arm with A H the other night.. .H S and M D are putting on t o much side altogether. You should not mash so loviugily at the gate when the O M is about...S C is always in the seventh heaven of delight when seeirga contingent of school girls homed especially the I £irls..T R says the O M will be fit for the hospital if he finds out who he is.

HAWERA.

The school scandal is ahout over. Nothing is now heard of it in the streets -the typhoid epideraio knocked it oat. However, the whole sum of the matter is that the head master kissed one of the lasses, which he admitted, but ' sweet seventeen,' with a cock of the head and an emphatic ' The idea,' denies the same. Of coarse this is a matter of principle with the girls when they have boys of their own.. The trotting races came off on Friday. There was only one Selling Race on the programme, bat the public consider the whole bally lot were selling races. The owner of Sonny was fined £10 for ' slintering,' whilst another (hard case) was fined £5 for riding without a license. The stewards should have also fined the rider of Kapai for deliberately pulliDg up when a close second within 100 yards of the winning post. A few reminders like these will purify our trotting sport The action of the Auckland horse Dictator was gieatly admired, and he should go pretty near winnJeg at Nornianby if he start3... The Mayor proposed and cairied a motion at the last meeting of the Borough Council to raise a loan of £25,000 for water and drainage. Twice have the ratepayers rejected the scheme, and it will get a shaking again when it comes before the ratepayers. It eeems strange that the present Mayor and Councillors were against the scheme when brought up before, but that was because Major was then Mayor. Then it wag a case of pull devil, pull baker. .Two ot our young ladies may be seen of an evenir g and on special occasions doing the heavy with walking sticks. I wonder if they are trying to ape the "Wellington girls. The said ladies lately went for a trip to Wellington, it being their first trip out of Hawera since they were born. What with their country walk and the walking sticks, they 100k — oh, Lord ! so out of place.. During service on Sunday night week, at the Catholic Church, a morepork was flying around to the amusement of the young folks. Bo giddy, you know. It reminded them of their own flying round outside... When the Rev. Mr Macdonald was giving out his weekly intimations last Sunday night, in referring to the Bible claBS, he said Hawera was one of the hardest places he had been in, and it required an angel direct from Heaven to urge and minister to the people here.