PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 58, 22 October 1881, Page 90

PERSONAL

*. — Mr and Mrs Dan Oxley spent their honeymoon at Wooclsidc lust week. — Tommy Burnham lias returned from Wanganui. — Mr K.. A. Drummond, principal bass of St. James' choir, left for Cambridge on Monday. — Mr Gr. A. Brown is saving up to buy a tent and caravan with a view to itinerant preaching. — An Auckland traveller met Mr Greo. Johnston in Chicago up to his eyes in business. — Now the Australasian has given J. C. Firth a pat on the back he will be quite insufferable. — Mr Scaly, author of " Are we to stay here ?', left for Kawmi on Tuesday on a visit to Sir Creorge Grey. — Colonel Lyon returned to Auckland by the s.s. Bingarooma after inquiring into irregularities amongst the Canterbury Volunteers. — Ask Greorgie Main to tell you that new story of his about what happened one afternoon last week in the Albert Park. — On dit that the spiritualistic tendancies of a a certain non-conformist parson are the cause of the miserable congregation at a well-known place of worship Sunday after Sunday. — Mr Fenton is anxious to have a boarding hoiise erected in connection with the Grammar School, but the other governors don't seem to see it. — A young lady who arrived from England by a recent vessel found a husband and was married within a fortnight after she landed on the Queenstreet Wharf. — Dr Lemon, Superintendent of ISTew Zealand Telegraphs arrived in Auckland on Tuesday last to superintend the laying of the telephones. The doctor saya the telephonic system is a great success in this Colony. — The rival professors are at daggers drawn once more. Villeval aspires to the position of Librarian of the French Club, and Peltzer declares that he shall never fill that office. The ballot takes place next Saturday, and trouble is expected. — Charlie Stubbs has arrived in England, and, having succeeded in " raising the wind " to a pretty considerable tune, will return to the Colony at an early date. He seems to have quite got over the love affair which prayed on his heart and his pockets (his ladye love's family were particularly severe on the latter) for so long, and speaks- quite kindly of the girl who so coolly — some say heartlessly — jilted him. But then Stubbs is of a forgiving nature, and was made to be imposed on. — Mr Baker, of the Devonport Ferry Company, has been mistaken for a " peeler." A man came up to him one day last week and said, " Thank goodness ! you're just the man I want." The presumed policeman couldn't see it at first, and the applicant was becoming impatient, when the former remembered he was wearing his " uniform " with those blessed brass buttons. He then took occasion to explain that though he looked like a "bobby" lie really wasn't one, at which the listener was greatly disgusted, and pranced off. — John Lamb was telling a sensational story the other evening with the object of showing the great evil of intemperance. " Friends," said he, "a number of men went on a, voyage to the far north, and they each took a flask of brandy ; and at the end of that journey those whose flasks were empty were comparatively strong in mind and body, while those who had full flasks were dropping down with fatigue." One of the listeners was heard to exclaim, " "Why, mon, that's jist richt ; the best men had drank all their brandy, and so they pulled through better than the ither fellers who didn't." John had the cart before the horse that time. — It is with great regret we learn that our ' words of warning to a certain widow who keeps i an hotel in one of the suburbs have been unat--1 tended with any satisfactory- result, and that the discreditable flirtation with a married man referred to in a recent issue is being continued as ardently and openly as ever. If the young woman has no regard for her own good name nor for the prestige of her house, she might at any rate consider her fatherless children and the duty she owes them as a mother. The whole neighbourhood is now shocked and in arms against her, and unless a speedy change eventuates it is far from improbable that representations re the state

of the case will be made to the new Licensing Commissioners. This of course would mean both social and financial nun, and all for the sake of an idle and highly improper flirtation, undertaken (we are informed) for no other purpose than to annoy her foolish spooney's wife. The good woman who is being thus ill-treated has the cordial sympathy of all honest folk, and should she feel it necessary to take, practical steps to bring her recalcitrant spouse to reason, she will be backed up both by the newspapers and by public opinion.