NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume II, Issue 40, 18 June 1881, Page 441

NOTABILIA

— It is not true that :i married man can ever become a bird, although when lie cornea home at two in the morning 1 his wife very often makes him quail. American W a l t h a m W a tchb s were Awarded the Only Two First Prizes at the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-Sl, being 1 Higher Awards than any other Exhibitor received for wafcchos. "Damme, it's too bad," so say all the tailors and Dick Deadeye, because Jack Phillips is making a suit for 555, worth £'5, thereby taking their customers. Go see for yourselves at 107, Queen Street. — Hudson's Celebrated Baking Powder is now becoming widely known and used throughout New Zealand, and hnrdly any house is now without a packet of it. Tlio.se who have used it once find they cannot do without it. — Prior to Mr W. J. Hurst's departure for "Wellington, should the citizens of Auckland desire to present him with a mark of their esteem, some of Partridge and Woollams's choice mixture would not bo a bad thing-. But, alas .' the hon. gentleman es"chews" Pig-tail, and cigars only end in smoke. — There is a great deal of natural tact in children- When a littlo one was asked by her proud mother to read her last composition to the minister she began: "The cow is the most useful animal in the world," and then, remembering the minister's presence, added, " except religion." — Ho\y many women in Auckland do we .see who, on limited means, manage to dress well and becomingly? Only a few who understand the secret of what clothes to wear and where to get them. Try Munro and Milligan's establishment, Kamngnhupe-road, for your winter supply, on the weekly payment system. — Fontenelle, when ninety years old, passed before Madam Holvetius without perceiving her. "Ah !" cried the lady, "that is your gallantry, then! to pass before me without even looking at me?" "If I had looked at you, Madame," replied the old bean, " I should not have passed before you." — "King Stephen was a. worthy Peer; his britches coat him but a crown"~so runs the old song ; but they could not liave fitted him at the prico. Try a pair made by Mr J. Ford, the only tailor in Queen-street who can turn out a suit of clothes as well as any other man, made of the best material, at a fair remimarative rate, with a fit guaranteed. — The proverbial open -heartedness and hospitality of the Auckland citizens will be fully exemplified on the arrival of the Detached Squadron. Tho right hand of good-fellowship will be extended to welcome our gallant tars. Harry Richmond, of the Nevada Hotel, has judt got in a fresh supply of liquora, and every one will be invited to take a drink of the best — i and pay for it. — Many a man sits up nights five weeks at a stretch, Sundays included, composing a communication for the Press on a slate, and then having spent another week coppying it until it might be mistaken for a piece of engraving, he walks into the editor's offico and remarks, with very badly assumed carelessness that wouldn't deceive a wooden cigar sign Indian : " There's something- 1 just scratched off that I thonghtyou might . usa." —"Why James, what's the matter with youP" said a man in Queen-street the' other day to a friend who was coughing- violently ; " what's the matter." "Oh," rex>lied James, " I have such a fearful cough I don't not know what I shall do." "Ah!" said the other fellow, " I wish I could cough j I couldn't if I tried, ever since I swallowed a bottle of T. 15. Hill's Cough Elixir in mistake one night, and I have never been able to coiigh since. You had better try a bottle," and so he did, and now, like the sun, he tip 3 the Hill-H with gold. — "It were all one that I should love a particular star." This quotation of Shakespere probably struck His Excellency the Governor wheii he stuck on the star that so particularly attracted Billy Swanson's admiration. Any one requiring a star made similar to that worn by Sir Arthur Gox-don can be supplied with star or other articles of jewellery on application to Mr Singleton, the popular jeweller, of Victoria-street. — "What's that you say ?" said old Mrs Partington — " What's that you say ?" Working more than eight hours in a garret! Pooh, nonsense! "Oh, no! Grandma, not working in a garret ; I said Messrs Garrett Bros, had been working their people longer than authorised by the Act." " Stuff and nonsense !" said the old lady, ruffling up her dress ; "rubbish! I don't believe it, the Garrett lJros. are not the people to break any humane or other law, if they do tan their own leather and turn out the best workmanship and material in Auckland." And the bid lady was quite right. Trade Mark, Waltham, Mass. — The Amrrican Watch Company, of Waltham, ~MussachuI setts, U.S.A., hereby give notice that their Trade Mark, " Waltham, Mass.," is now registered in the Australian Colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand. Proceedings will he taken against any person copying or imitating same, or any vendors selling or ottering for sale watches bearing- colourable imitations I or in any way infringing our rights. — American Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. — Squibbs's boy has been for some months an inmate of a lawyer's office. He entered with the determination, as he announced to his family, to become Secretary of State. There would seem to he some probability of his succeeding, to judge from the following note, sent to his anxious mother, who had inquired why he did not come home to see them oftener: "The impossibility of my absence will be readily apparent 1 when I convey the intelligence that my senior principle is at the current juncture exhaustively engaged in the preparation of a volumiuoxis series of intercalatory in- | terrogatories to be propounded to a supposedly recalcitrant witness, whose testimony is of cardinal I importance in the initial stages of an approaching preliminary investigation involving the most momentous consequences."