PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 52, 10 September 1881, Page 612

PERSONAL

— Willie T. is the new " star " in the firmanent of the Symond-stree dance. — Mr J. Chad-wick, junr., has been in town on a visit. — Mr Brissenden is very probably going to Melbourne per Te Anau. — It is said that John Lundon intends to stand for Onehunga at the approaching elections. — Gr. M. Heed, in a Californian widewake, is is working up the new land company at Gisborne. — A young chemist from the Thames very sincerely declares that he met his affinity at the Newmarket ball on Thursday evening ultimo. — Mr J. Baxter, of the Telegraph department, has been transferred from the Thames to Auckland. He is still one of Pharoah's lean kine. — Mr Edwin Doidge, formerly of the Thames Star, is now one of the proprietors of the Mansfield Guardian, the organ of " Kellyfornia," Victoria. ' — Garrard says he will go into Parliament ; if it is only to teach Dr Wallis that he cannot relegate unemployed petitions to the waste-paper basket with impunity. — Horr Carl Schmitt is no longer a grasswidower. Madame and the family arrived per Rotomahana on Monday, and the Herr's smiling countenance attests his delight at the reunion. — Walker says his dog is the only one of its species in the Colony, and the next person who attempts to ship it oft" to a country settlement will be honoured with an escort to Mount Eden. — Mrs Hampson was present at Wellesley-street Church last Sunday night, which place was again crammed with people anxious to hear the son of the " prince of modern preachers." — Jim Dunn, of Otahuhu, is said to be meditating a plunge into the sea of matrimony, and rumour credits Nat Murphy with similar intentions. — Mr D. L. Murdoch, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has become charmed with the TakapunaLake district, and is about to have a handsome villa residence erected there at a cost of rather more than £500. — Dan Page, the popular proprietor of the Masonic Hotel, Gisborne, was publicly thanked by the Pinafore Troupe for his kindness and attention to them during their stay in the Poverty Bay district. j — The popular B.A. of the Wellesly-street school declares hhnself to be a particular favourite amongst the ladies of that establishment, They in return suggest that he should study Chambers on Etiquette. — Mr Watt leaves for the South per Hotomahana. He is a lucky man to get such an appointment as the management of the Christchurch i branch. Many men have worked far longer for the Bank of N. Z. without meeting with half such success. — Lord Mulgrave, eldest son of the Marquis of Normanby, and brother-in-law to the Earl of Ellesmere, has developed very High Church principles. Notwithstanding his prospects as heir to a title and property, he is in orders, and is perpetual curate of St. Mark's, Worsley. — The Mr James Rowther, who, according to cablegrams, has been returned in the Conservative interests for North Lincolnshire, is in reality the erstwhile secretary for Ireland Jimmy Lowther. He sat for Cumberland for many years, ■but was kicked out at the last general election. — The great unemployed agitator, Garrard has, at length, advertised his intention of becoming a candidate for City West at the approaching general election. It is whispered that his proposer and seconder will be Peter Finn and Martin Lestrange. — Herbert Claiide, the A.A., kept things pretty lively in the lock-up last Saturday night. Not satisfied with singing his favourite songs and delivering portions of his lecture on " Chaucer," for the benefit of the occupants of the adjoining cells, he devoted an hour to a determined attempt to kick his way through the door of his prison. • — How is it that Mr Blackman has not given a lecture yet on " Carlyle, one of the men I have known ?" Surely, a man who was the familiar friend of Tupper, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, Thomas Cooper, Albert Smith, Burnet Jerrold, Lover, Cruickshank, etc., etc., all " men I have known" has some light to throw on the life of the Chelsea Seer. — The son of the "only honest draper in Queen-street," whose meeting with the one whom he fondly hoped was his affinity, was referred to in these columns a few weeks ago, has now discovered that there is not that sweet umitterable sympathy between them that there should be. The engagement has therefore been broken off. — Mr J. C. Young is just now in Auckland. It will be remembered that some time ago he was arrested for embezzling Government monies whilst occupying the position of Lands Purchase Commissioner at the East Coast. A searching examination of his accounts has been made, and the Grovernment now exonerate him from the faintest suspicion of fraud. Mr Young has been " under a cloud " for some time through the action of the Grovernment, and it is only right that they should make him handsome restitution. — Last year two mean wretches, counterjumpers in a second-hand pawnbrokers or old clothes shop, got into the Oddfellows ball without paying. This anniversary they once again attempted the same game, but were caught and made to account for themselves. At first some paltry prevarication was attempted, but on the pair being threatened with the pains and penalties of the Police Court, they " caved " in, and agreed to pay 10s a-piece for tickets as well as 5s additional to the poor box.