TE AWAMOTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2115, 28 January 1886, Page 2

TE AWAMOTU GOSSIP.

riwivr. written the heading of this letter, I am pullid up by a beautiful "period," or .1-. I .mi i itlit'i inclined to style it "foolhl«>l»." If 1 uliey the latter dictate of «olfimp >-ul tiitnistn, tins composition will smi'lv be loved, as a donkey's gallop is, for its slitn tiles'- and sweetness. Other w liter-, aie entenng the field of winch I was the pioneer, and I think I may on th : pie-eniptive right principle, enter into, and stroll through their patches of cultivation, and talk of things that have escaped their classical vision. Comma \\Ai beloved by (hid, and to her inspiration I am inclined to grant the timehonoured homage paid to that poet, for, a* his multitudinous witnesses prove, as true and constant as her lo\o was to him, so was his to her. Take again from the "Sonows of Werter," as an example of righteous aifection, the passage wherein he m>s, alluding to Charlotte, "I lovo but c>vtt not go id AUuit's wife." Thit expression stamp-, him as a imn visionary and testy peih«p> from very disappointment, but still tai^in? him, in his negation of individuality, and crowning him superior t>> his fellows. But love like this belongs n t to Te Awaiuutu. Tiwio is a paculiarlity of originality about the following expiewon that often crises me to close my ears even to the practically attuned voice of common sense. The expres-ive compound sentenca latos b.ick to the dark ages— they are blindmgly light now I notice— and is as follow-) . — '''^vi bib it beue, dormit bene, jui doimit l)jnj non peccavi, gui non peccavi sahatns e->t." Of coui»e the pi'it.xtii n will be condemned, as well a« me for pioducin^ it, but I would feulessly ask, "l J iay, whoarj yo that condemn?" Those who do s.>, in tlie smudgy whitene>s of their goodnes-. may just as wellc >n leinn Dickens, the puoplt 'tj preacher, for pourtiaymg ''Pagan and his pupils practising on :>. lay figme, protected by bells, the dchcato art of "pick-pocket-ing." Tlicsj e\ imples are given to show the bitter end of vice, and the dotnuie, modest, and snowy— thit is while, vet as c »ld a« it is snowy— -goodness of seeming virtue. Talking of drunkenness, the gradated exhilarated pleasure of becoming diuik is easily att tined, b'lt the awful misery of jetting si bi r i . -uiiicient pnnishineot paid for l'apauio.H indulgence, «uid ihe scanty courtesy gi anted sn»eringly to &eedints» is yet anothoi du^i.adation slappinyly blocked uuon the aching head of foolishness. The way I look at it is that auy self-imposed miseiy petuLmtly ignores commiseration, and would rather acknowledge the fault and secretly expiate it, oven if de.ith was the lOoiilt of that e\puti n. Unwibhedfor blatant sympathy is as lude as> it is irksome. But, goodness, gracious! whatever has this whim to do with local gossip? Some writers gossip sib >ut the weather, and following the good safe old topic I must say the weather here lus been languidly oppressive. The I tali.) n "dolce far niente," or pleasure of doing nothing, becomes in the. Waikato pel spiring manual labour. Sand flies and mosquitoes check any realisation ot the lomantic ideas of laziness that link in tin 1 ldi.mi. Under-clothing is below par, and dust coits at ■> premium. S^mi-naked-noss, under the existing »t\to of t!ie atmos-j)h-'r", c mid n t rghto'Mslj be adjudged as iudocancy. Du-% miiiuio, penetrating dust, abounds eveiy where, even in ear-holes, and To Awa.uutn likes it, for it hidea some of her follu'-, a, with a gainient. Wat oi is scjivi 1 , and dr.iweis of it prove the woidi of '* Onine Writ" by the \ciy act of dning ».i, but none of them come up i t> the ''EistoiM iitaidon" bycuiyiugit on their li n ad-. 15>it one, while lamenting the lick of pictrre->[ne e'fect, checks borrow by b m^c I't'/iii-' it of thi' -cientib'c fn^t that the lOtii ceuluiy idvam." Iri^ softened h^iid', and nude them s>:isiti\e oven under 1 1' v i!".:l.t of the '' lightest tile." Tlie i ace ni'vting to b3 held here on the 2'ttli mst. will, considering the energetic way in which it his bo^n undertaken, be the nn-t suco-fiil affair ever in-tituteJ Ij'io. The luo^ramme is an extensive and good one. The refreslmunt booths are in the h nils of th'i-.e win thoroughly understind citiiing for a hungry and thirsty pablic. Fir4-class hordes have accepted to content the vaiioiis events. The course is ■n h'i'at-iate order. The secretary has been busily engagcvi s.upei intending tli 3 erection of racing nece-suit:*, and all these taken t>gether justify mi in prophssying ft thorough day's <«i>orting enjoyment. That i-> if Admit. U Ed vm will co-opirate, and sternly foibid p-jor <»ld Dame Nature from indulging in one of her paroxysms of delugiiij? pi ii p t, just allowing her to case her troubled mind by a little blubbering to lay tilC dUat. Billy.