It is It Talk Talk

Free Lance, Volume VII, Issue 331, 3 November 1906, Page 22

It is It Talk Talk

—That a lady player lias been killed by a tennis ball. Death doesn't care what weapons it uses. That the cheap summer eubuiban trains start on Sunday. But the bona fid© traveller is dead 1 , isn't he? That the assertion that "New Zealand bowlers are cany ing all before them" is not quite tiue. One or two are quite thin. — That four ounces may mow be sent per letter post for a peivny. Somebody may try sending "hialf-a-pound" of butter for a "brown" undei the new regulations.

That the eyes of the female reformers are on the local bowling greens. Beware ! That the New Zealand Exhibition has cost £140,000 to date. We wanted that million, loan. That the Federal Government now pays its servants fortnightly. Some still believe they get paid weakly. — That the news season has died. One paper has a leader on a dlog that •died in the reign of Henry VIII. — That a coniutry parson last, week asserted that Wellington's fire was sent "owing to its wickedness." There now! That thfis is the suicide season. They mostly happen/ up North. Cannot afford to get to the Exhibition, perhaps. — That quite a number of midnight wanderers didn't know that ooffee stalls Bold whisky until a coffee-stall keeper was fined £20. — That an Auckland boy last week had has hand nearly blown off by a "Roman candle" firework. Guy Fawkes Day boys beware' That a gifted contemporary asserts that most of the members of Parliament "are marred with families.' This is "1" indiscretion. — That out of 174 appointments of officials to the post and telegraph service only nine are of foreign names. It is a fairly British service. — That it cost £82 to entertain the few-Parliamentary visitors to the Cook Memorial unveahng at G-isbonne. What a night they must have had. — That the "mussing Jink" has been discovered at Port Darwin ! A coincidence. Also a coincidence tnat Queensland rum is very strong. — That domestics are so scarce that many Wellin/gtoniane are livimg m hotels. Evidently, the hotels possess the secret of attracting domestics. — That a postcard with nothing on it at all has been sent through the post. The police are making enquiries. This indecency must be stopped. —That the thoughtful fathers of "St. Pat's" rigged big tarpaulin cloak-.rooms outside the porch of tiie College for the conversazione. Everybody igot his own hat. — That, a propos of- ambulance bazaars, a Wellington young man is said to have been charged 12s 6d to be oarted to the hospital in an emergency vehicle. — That the name of New Zealand's nary has been changed from the "Sparrow^' to the "Amokura." Sparrows are prohibited under the "Small Birds Pest Aot." — That a humorous pnint heads a recent self-effeoted-d'eath notice "A successful suiioide." Why not "An unsuccessful win," "A victorious defeat," and so on? — That,, perhaps, a- very great Commissioner celebrity may be suddenly called upon to leave Wellington to take hold of the Exhibition before royalty arrives. — That, a propos of the lack of chemical fire extinguishers at the recent blaze, a noted public man poinlts 6ut that chemical engines are onlly for use at "insipid'" fires. — That the stringent gambling bill as going to circulate until the epidemic of anM-everything is over. Boundl to be a reaction. These things come like land booms and measles. — That restaurants that were giving ■favoured diners two potatoes woth lunch have this week reduced the favour by one. Probably, the result of Queensland front fly or the fire. — That a prisoner who is to have several floggings cannot be flogged in the country gaol he is now in because no one will flog him. He. is being sent to Wellington, where heart® are harder. — That the tourist is computed 1 to spend £50 per head in the country. It is very good' of him. It is almost as much as the average person spends who lives here and gives some return in production. — That, following the example of Exhibition panjandrum Munro, who .charged workmen twopence a day to store their bikes 1 , local contractors might charge carpenters a penny for places whereon to hang their coats.