ENTRENOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1367, 5 April 1881, Page 2

ENTRENOUS.

— I clip the following from the Sydney Bulletinex— Emperor of Russia assassinated. Thank Heaven we have his subscription for two years in advance!

— What a glorious epitaph !

— Can any newspaper, however radical its principles may be, condemn a man. of this stamp ?

~ Surely the Press of the world -will unite in a demand for the head of the Editor of the Socialist * organ " Die Frahcit I

— In his speech the other night Mx W. J. Speight told his auditors that politics were at a low ebb !

— A discovery which .he has taken some considerable time to make.

— How long Trill it be before he hits upon the real cause ?

— The spring tide of politics went out when the representatives of the people began to be constructed out of straw.

— When "units of a party," to which class Mr Speight says he belongs, were „, pitchforked into power.

— "The picket on the Potomac," by which I mean the Waipa, i» on the gui vive.

— It is reported that the police of a certain town m Waikato were particularly well "had," as the phrase goea, on the Ist of April.

— They were brought at great inconvenience to suppress a display of rowdyism at a well-known hotel, celebrated for its orderliness.

— And gnashed their teeth in despair when they discovered the " sell."

— This is merely rumour.

— However, I did hear of one wellauthenticated case of befooling.

— But the victim is a man of such refined and delicate sensibilities that I hesitate to indicate him by even so much as a whisper.

— Moreover the person by whom he was " sold " had a grudge against him.

— And grudges are such disreputable things, don't yon know,

— The question which has been agititating the minds of a Waikato School Committee, namely, "is it, or is it not expedient to put refractory boys in the corner," is of more importance than the generality of people think.

— There ia much to be saii on either side.

— And I would recommend the subject for the consideration of the Hamilton Debating Club.

—On the one hand, «is against this system of punishment, the practice may lower a boy's self-resp»ct.

— It may make him vicious.

— If he was not born viciou*, as many people are.

— But on the other huii'l it provides an excellent opportunity for developing any latent talent for architecture, aud tho study of nail-heads.

— But a-i a doieneut I que-%tion very

much if it is of any u^e.

— I was reading- Bret Harte the other day, and stuck at the line " and is the

Cauciißsitm played out. "

— Looking 1 around me, I was near giving Mr H.irto'B pertinent enquiry an affirmative answer.

— Yes sir, we have very little of the old bluff Euglibh nature left.

— Even cricket is paralytic.

— We have no louger that genuine lore of manly 6porfc which used to characterise our grandfathers.

— And we have very little of their good, honest, fair play style of doing things.

— We are getting acclimatised, and take naturally to tomahawks and bowieknives.

— We are getting on.

— Begging the pardon of the worthy gentlemen who waited on the Native Minister the other day, I think they abked for too much.

— They wanted the Government to free the Hamilton traffic bridge,

— Which was a very proper request.

— But not content with this, they must ask to have the railway bridge made available for foot passengers.

— At the same time they were careful to , say that they di<i not desire the last request to be granted before the first.

— This is why I say a mistake has been made :—: —

— The Government will say to themselves : "If we make the Traffic Bridge free, we must make additional expenditure on the railway bridge.

— "But if we refuse to carry out the one, we shall not be compelled to grant the other."

—Of course this is a "goak," as no Government could possibly withstand such pursuasive eloquence as'aome of our public men are gifted with.

— What has become of the books belonging to the defunct Hamilton. Public Libraiy ?

— Is it not possible my friends to resuscitate the institution and- claim the stock-in-trade ?

—If something of the kind be not done the pile of classic literature may one day be found in the base occupation of wrapping butter.

— There is some more work here for the Debiting Club, on the re-assembling of the members softer Easter.

—By the way, I thought they had done with water in Cambridge.

w — And now they talk about spending £5,000 on the despised liquid ! - •

-— Tonpora mutanfur, et m* nwtamur in illis.