ENTRE NOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1358, 15 March 1881, Page 3

ENTRE NOUS.

— The shower • bath house at the brewery, which has long been .acknowledged a public boon, hu been cloved.

— The joyial donor hits tr*naraogri« fied it into a bottling room.

— The change will put money into his pocket, as visitors to the bath generally 14 went "for a cheap beer after immersion.

— The " Vigilance Committee •' of the Cambridge Temperance Society, is pretty aliye to the importance of the t*sk committed to it.

— Cambridgeon Sunday night; reminded one of Spain during the happy diapcngation of Torquemada,

— Or Ireland under the rule of " Kory of the Hills."

— But I question vrhether stopping children on the street is "respectable."

— The "tall, dark gentleman" may rest assured that he will be watched.

— I hear that the Working Men's Club »t Cambridge East promises to be a thorough auccess.

— The subscription has been fixed at a figure reasonable enough to include all the "friends of temperance."

— Who are now supplied with a rural retrent.

— Far from the "Madding crowd."

— A learned Irish judge, famous for his brogue, on being; asked if he did not desire the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, replied, ' 0, if I could only suspend the corpus anybody might have the habeat J'

— I am beginning to share the opinion oi tntmj people that the Emerald Isle wonld be the bettor for twenty-lour hours •übmeraion.

— I clip the following from the World : ** Among the improTing landlords -who have been forced to leave Ireland, probably for ever, is Lord Annesley, who was actually compelled, under threats too unmistakable to be disregarded, to quit his hou6e hastily nt night, leaving his wife to follow. They have broken up their establishment with the intention of never returning to their ungrateful country again. Lord Annesley employed a large Btaft'of under -gardeners on the ornamental nhrubberies and garden, for which hiß place is celebrated. Thirty-five men are always employed when the place ib kept up ; and probably these will now have to seek their bread in desolate places, and regret not making things more pleasant to a landlord who always lived on his es. tate, and paid well."

— Bread is not easily get-at-able anywhere, and the thirty-five certainly won't find it in " desolate places."

— The Queen Bee dosen't read the Entrc Nous column.

— All ! — A fire is by no means a fit subject for a joke.

— When it is raging. — But it may provide food for In lighter when the danger is past. — But highly moral people who subsist on Pain-killer and soda-water will take objection to these things.

— And, unless James Hennessy complains of neglect, there is nobody to blame them. — At the same time, I know of nothing more conducive to the development of scurrility than this same compound of Perry Davia's.

— Always excepting diluted milk. — A young man in Cambridge, who has a passion for phonography, has discovered that reporting is an expensive luxury. — He has been obliged by the R.M. to pay something over £10 for the privilege of inserting two reports in the columns of a contemporary.

— Joe's star is in the ascendant, — He has actually won a case at last. — The unemployed will find occupation to-day at the District Court, Hamilton. — In listening to the ferrid eloquence o! the great Anglo-Indian, and the eccentric jargoning of his dear enterprising friend.

— To the latter, who is bo confident of Tictory, I would offer a word of adrice. — Don't butter the Bencb. — Some people may like it, bat then again some don* k.

— So perhaps it's as well to keep on the safe eide. — The attendance of the " Export" is contingent upon his " recorery." — Which is doubtful. — The Comus Club, bo \ewhat handicapped by the defection or one or two member?, is busily engaged rehearsing "Our Boys."

— Wnifch charming little comedy will, I hear, be produced at Easter. — And I ehall be surprised if it be not as great a success as anj of the previous performances of the same club. —My Collingwood-street friend (l The Emprefli," looked remarkably well on Saturday in the Mayor's shop* window.

— Daring the auction sale. — I hear there irM no reierre on her.