TAURANGA

Observer, Volume XXVI, Issue 44, 21 July 1906, Page 22

TAURANGA

The Catholic social was a great success. Quite eighty couples took part' in the dancing. ..W D looked charming with his two lady-loves. Be careful, W, between two stools you are sure to come to the ground. ..C J was having a great time with the elite of Tauranga...WTiy was A S not present ? Because he doesn't dance, or because he could not persuade Miss B to come ? ...L C was having a royal time with her devoted admirer. What would J II say if r lie knew ?...Once again M D and A C are as thick as peas in a pod... A R is a terrible flirt. Too bad of him to spoon with A II when M B is not about. ..G H looked very sad saying good-bye to D...W II is a long time' giving the boys a spree... A B and V C will shortly take the leap...S D and L H are still running very strong. When is it coming off, S ?...H F and A H are not so thick of late. What has A done ?....E K T has been longing for the Waihi . hockey

girls to visit Tauranga...E A is trying to hang his hat up to L 8...P J seems to have a spare corner in his heart for C P, but C prefers something more substantial.

In cricket field or football bounds, Sporting with gun or following hounds, In swift horse-race or yachting course, Where'er a man's delight finds source, One more delight keeps him aglowBest game of all— 'tis sport to know That Woods' Great Peppermint Cure was sent To be man's best medicament.

There should not be a tramp upon our roads, nor a drunkard) whose only offence is drunkenness, in oar gaols. There should be a State farm in every district, and any wanderer who is oat of employment, and for whom work cannot be found by the labour bureau, should be sent to work there. Farmers and others requiring labourers would apply at the State depdt for them instead of depending upon casual tramps. — Carterton News.

It seems to us that reciprocity with the United States is well-nigh hopeless. Protection is such a fundamental part of the American commercial system that only long years of experience and education can give any prospect of its modification. — Christchurch Times.

To New Zealanders the idea that a Liberal administration should have any hesitancy on the subject of woman suffrage appears something peculiar, but in many matters a British liberal, if transplanted to these new lands, would probably be found to more nearly approximate to colonial idea 9of a Conservative. . . No party in this colony would for a moment seriously propose to deprive women of the political rights they now possess. — Greymouth Argus.

It may be a graceful act for this colony to ptafl with its graduates the mining schools of West Australia and other colonies, but it can hardly be regarded as profitable to us. The fact is that other places pay bigger salaries. The result is that New Zealand ia yearly the poorer by the departure of many young men, whose only crime is that they are New Zealanders. — Palmerston Standard.

The Labour Party has received during the last thirteen years very just treatment at the hands of both Pailiament and people, and if it set* up on its own account and disturbs the machinery of Parliament for its own ends, it will have committed a great mistakeinits policy. — Manaia Witness, • • ■

It does not surprise us to learn that the Country Party will " insist on the adequate representation of country interests 1 ' in the Cabinet in the event of reconstruction. But we do not know what more it wants in this direction than it has already. There is not a city representative in the Ministry, and there has not been one since the Hon. T. Thompson retired after his brief term of office. Indeed, city interests have not been represented at all well in the Ministry since the resignation of the Hon. W. P. Reeves. — Christchurch Times.

Christmas comes but once a year. And when it cornea —why. then' ;'s here ; But this of colds we cannot say, They come, they go, they often stay, And merge into a nasty cough. Which we have trouble to drive off. Vain the attempt, unless we procure A bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Ours.

Those who require to use Spectacles will find a very large assortment to suit almost any sight at Miller's Fancy Repository, 110, Victoria - street. Prices to suit any pocket, viz. , 6d, 9d, Is and Is 6d per pair. Real English Pebbles 3s 9d per pair. Coloured Spectacles for sun and dust, 6d and Is per pair, sent post free to any address in New Zealand. Anyone mentioning this paper when purchasing or sending will have a cast value for 6d presented to them. — A DVT.