PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 53, 17 September 1881, Page 12

PERSONAL

[This column is intended to lie a record of the arrivals and departures, marriages, engagements, and all occurrences of interest concerning persons well known in the Auckland province. Contributions (which will he considered strictly private and confidential) are invited, and special arrangements will be entered into with, those who write regularly.]

— Father O'Sullivan's sweet tenor voice was much svthnirecl on Sunday. — Captain Hughes lias taken the Edith to Earotonga for a cargo of oranges for Mr Otto. — Willie R., late of the Auckland Railway Department, is doing a fly round at GHsborno. — Herr Schmitt has been engaged by the Benedictine Fathers to drill the choir at Newton. -—Miss Shanaghan is getting up a concert in aid of the ]Suns of Mercy. — Cleverley wanted to recover for that breach of agreement, but the Magistrate wasn't exactly able to see it. - Charlie McMurdo is making a small fortune in Sydney vaccinating from a calf which stands in the garden of his temporary abode. — Gramvell met with a serious accident, last week at Onehunga. His many friends will be glad to hear lie is progressing favorably. — " Nappy " returned from Gisborne on Wednesday and is full of a Fancy Dress Ball at which he attended in the costume of a " Barrister." ■ — Mr Blackman is going to give a lecture on " Charles Dickens, as a Social Reformer." lie knew him personally, you know. — Eddie McM. is going to tie the fatal knot shortly. He has eschewed billiards, barmaids, and beer for ever and ever. — Willie Ohlsen left lust Monday for Russell, and the tears of Ponsonby and Ivy her Pass are not yet dry. • — Everybody should see Charlie Rowe's new cigar case. It is the most wonderful thing yet invented if he is to be believed. — The young chemist who was up on a visit from the Thames is wanted by several young ladies here. • — Captain Logan had only been out of the Hero about a month when she ran down another vessel between Sydney and Newcastle. —By the " To Anau," Mr A E Lewis, the son of our respected fellow citizen Mr E Lewis, left for Wanganui the place of his birth where he intends carrying on business as an Insureance Agent. — The contributions forwarded by " Epicurus " are very witty and cleverly written and we shall be glad if he will continue them. The hint is a a good one and shall be borne in mind. — Mr Jack Franklin lias been appointed G-overnment Overseer for the Drainage of the Te Aroha Block Grant and Foster's Specia Settlement. . -Miss Gribble is the coining contralto of Auckland. She has an extensive range and in the loAvcr register her voice is as clear as a bell. Cailliau's tuition has improved her considerably. — Anxious enquiries are being made after Theodore Brown. Some of his patrons have heard that lie is contemplating a trip "down south." Hence their perturbance of mind. — Bandmaster Impey lias unearthed a skeleton, which we fact we recommend to the notice of those interested in stocking our museum. The animal is thought to have been a Maori once, ahem ! Mrs Clark played Mr Edmiston's accompaniment at the opening of the Renvuera Hall, at sight, Avithout preparation or rehearsal and remarkably Avell. — Jngger and Parker have made a pretty good thing by the sale of their property and business to the New Zealand Timber Company. The total amount they are to receive -will be nearly £13,000. The principal of the teacher's training college is evidently a great favourite with the young lady students. One of them writes to us that he is *a " perfect darling." — To the Editor : Sir, — Could inform me if " Teacher's Old Grlasgow Whiskey" is so called from the quantity of it used at the Park Hotel, Wellesley-street. — I am, &c, M. S., Newton. — Sir Arthur Crordon came on shore on Monday Avith Captain Maxwell, of the Emerald, but Avent about so quietly that very feAV people knew they had left the vessel.

arrival of the next gust of wind she was hurled 'down upon Miss Boy lan and the soloists who surrounded the harmonium. It was really too bad of the other young lady choristers to titter so much at the mishap. — To the Editor : Sir, — I feel compelled to ! write you concerning the paragraph in your last issue re the communication by the 16 householders of Wellsford about the late disgusting proceedings at that place. It would be well if the names of the 16 householders could be published, as by that means we should know who the householders are that agree with such proceedings. I, for one, hope the perpetrator will be discovered, if for no other reason than that he can be kept at a distance by all cleanly people, and by A Wellsford Householder, Wellsford, Albertland, September 10th, 1881. [We have received two other letters, one signed "Pudor," to the same effect. The names of the sixteen householders affixed to the document referred to last week are — ■ C. Levct, G-eo. Dibble, W. Ramsbottom, Chas.. White, Wm. Armitage, L. Rushbrook, A. Wickham, for John Wickham, O. Watson, for James Watson, A. G\ Stuart, J. Ramsbottom, Robert Hefford, Frank Rushbrook, Alfred Wilson, C. T. Pearman.] — He was a pastor of a moderately-sized church and received annually the salary of £400, which, perhaps, he was worth — perhaps. He was intensely earnest and unselfish — in his sermons, and in "order to devote himself more entirely to the service of the Lord and of the church he was extremely desirous that a minister's residence should be built close to the sanctuary. "If this were done," he said, "I would pay rent for the house as I pay rent for the place I live in, so that the church would lose nothing financially." On this understanding, the house was built, and the cleric duly installed therein, but somehow the reverend tenant always forgets to pay the rent, though he is as regular as clock work in his applications for his salary. — While the faithful were on their knees and at their orisons a pious (?) layman turned to a neighbour and remarked that that sort of protracted goodness was too much for him. A quiet, but significant cough arrested his intention, and turning round he beheld, to his dismay, that Father O'Sullivan had overheard and appreciated the observation. The priest seemed, by the twinkle in his eyes, to indorse the sentiment. An adjacent pub. did a "roaring" trade while the service lasted. A chilly wind blew all the time, and a " nip" now and again was found absolutely essential for keeping up the normal temperature of the body. It is said that even the blue coated gentry were not adverse to some spiritual nourishment also. At any rate, boniface was nothing loth to supply his creature comforts ad lib. Some youths with " full buzummed" shirts and loud cravats peregrinated among the crowd snipping with scissors the back hair of young ladies, and otherwise taking advantage of the facilities of " vamoosing" to misbehave themselves. —It is worth a good deal to see the new vaccination regulations carried out on steamerr coming from Sydney. Dr Philson and Mr Edward Brophy Esq. go off in grand style — generally in the water-police's whale-boat — the former grave and business like, -the latter funny and fussy. The doctor has the cabin or some other enclosed place at his disposal and no one must enter the sanctum until called. The crew are mustered with due solemnity, and the passengers warned that their turn will come next. The reputed Quarantine Superintendent acts as door keeper and usher, always with a smile so bland and always apologising for trouble ; the officers of the vessel gathered round — purser, with a list of crew and passengers in hand, and captain assisting. Then the work begins : — " jS"ow boys, bare your arms, all ; hurry up ; Johnson, we'll take you first." Johnson steps inside encouraged by a few tender words from the fatherly Brophy, and appears again in a few moments afterwards, very red in the face and blushing terribly, for all his messmates are laughing and chaffing over his misfortunes. Thus the crew are dealt with, and the passengers arc called upon. Some step up boldly, bare their arms and if they pass do so cheerfully, and if the vaccination process has to be performed, grin and bear it. The ladies are the worst ; they don't like shewing their arms — at least some feel that way. Some ladies have nice plum]) arms, you see, Avhile some have arms of less pruposcssing appearance. The first say they decidely object but do not require much pressing to interview the doctor, while the latter crouch in corners and whimper : " They are not going to shew their arms, not they ; they are all right ; they were vaccinated long ago." The last examination conies from mostly all, and it seals their fate. " But you must be vaccinated recently Missus," says the usher and after much coaxing and pressing the fair ones submit to have their arms pinched, and what a pity to pain them so, we thought as each stepped out from the medico's presence, with face suffused with blushes, much prettier than they ever looked before ; but just slightly indignant. They gave their dress sleeves a good tug and disappeared. The fai'ce was one which anyone could enjoy and our artist was so taken with the picturesqueness of the scene that he there and then made a lifelike sketch, which we will duly present upon completion. — !N"o more physic wanted, and as Shakespeare says, "You can throw it to the dogs." The latest and best thing out is Crawford's Sarsaparilla Tonic, invaluable remedy for eruptive diseases of the skin, and invaluable as an " eye opener" before dinner. Every first-class lotel keeps it, and one trial is needed, to prove it a firstlass restorative and stimulative tonic. -i-Mr W. Bartleet Langbridge, the manager of the Associated News and Advertising Bureau, of New Zealand, has opened a free Reading Room and Commercial Exchange at Hickson's Rooms, over Goodson's London. Arcade. A first-class rendczvour for business men.