Notabilia

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 34, 7 May 1881, Page 366

Notabilia

— On Friday, May 6th, the comedy of "Caste" will be performed at the Masonic Hall, Onehunga, the proceeds being devoted to the aid of the Onehnnga Public Library. — "A great deal of pride obscures a thousand good qualities," and a great deal of bad tobacco obscures the mind and deadens the intellect. Therefore, _ use only the best tobacco, always obtainable at Partridge and Woollam's, Queen-street. — A girl Avas deserted hy her lover at the very foot of the altar. Lucky girl ! This is the narrowest escape on record. — Mr. Williams, the Avell-knoA\ii tailor of Victoria-street, moves into his new premises to-day, and exhibits a stock of stuffs and tweed suitable for all persons. — "Drink to me only Avith thine eyes," gushingly sighed a young Aucklander to a fair and fat damsel on the Queen-street wharf the other night. "Yes, darling," replied she, "let's go and have a couple of * Eye-slingers ' at Harry Richmond's." — "EA r erybody is innocent in some comer of the mind, and has faith in something." The less said about innocence the better, but we have faith in boots made at the establishment of Garrett Bros., in Wakefield-street. — LaAv reporters are dull men, and it re^ mains for us to rescue from oblivion a sweet little bit from the Maidstone (England) Assizes. A gentleman who was convicted of stealing a large amount of jewellery had on all his note paper a Latin motto. That motto translated is, What is useful to me is mine. — " The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home." Therefore, lighten and brighten that home by taking your wife a present of jewellery purchased at Singleton's Emporium in Vic-toria-street. — There is an old saying that " Those who have their summer loaf must now earn their winter bread." Quite right ; but just go and lay in a supply of Hudson's unsurpassable Baking Powder to maJto it with, "Winter comes to rule the varied year; sullen and sad, with all his rising train— vapours, and clouds, and storms." So quotes Tennyson. But we say, as winter comes, go to Munro and Milligan's, Karangahape-road, and select a stock of warm clothing on the weekly payment system. — Samson AA'as a strong man, Eli was a good man, and Solomon and T. B. Hill (tho well-knoAvn chemist) were wise men ; especially T. B. Hill, who has given up mangold wurzell growing, and all the other delights of farming, and gone back to his old shop in Queen-street, where he will, in future, be found ait all hours ready to cure the old and agonise the young. — Lof t Auckland has he ! a gentleman was heard to say the other day in Queen-street. Left Auckland, not a bit of it, he has only given up the front of his shop for a time, and now carries on hia business at the back. We found out that the remark applied to Mr. J. I. ord, the popular tailor, who .till carries on business in his old premises.