PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 63, 26 November 1881, Page 166

PERSONAL

■ — W. Farquhar and Ted Owen distinguished themselves on Saturday by catching a big shark. — Mr Harrison, trainer to Major George, was married last week to Miss Yates. —Mr Dillon has resolved to retire from the stage. Constable Dodd is retiring from the police force, having come into possession of a legacy. j\£ r H. T. Kemp returned from his visit to the North on Saturday. Mr H. Carlyle, Kyber Pass Eoad, is to be married to Miss Dunn about the end of the month. — Mr Swin Kayll returns to Auckland early next year, after a trip to England and America. —Miss Alley returned to Auckland from Whangarei on Monday. She looks much better for her trip. — Miss Mary Hill, daughter of the Rev. James Hill, late of Auckland and the Thames, was recently married at Lyttelton. — McKee was the life and soul of the picnic up the river on Wednesday. His Irish jigs and breakdowns were grand. — A marriage is on the tap is between Mr John O'Hara, Wakefield-street, and Miss Murphy, of Arch-hill. — The engagement is announced of Mr James Flynn, Catholic bookseller, and Miss Lawless, of Mount Eden, to come off early in February. — Mr Edward Mooney, of Mangawai, is engaged to Miss Sarah, of the Hakaru, and the wedding will take place about Christmas. — The Baptist girls are bewailing the departure of Harry Driver for Dunedin. He is not expected back for some time. — A marriage, is on the tapis between Mr W. Wheel, Kaipara, and Miss Bagot, who has been staying at Whakahura. — Miss N., of Auckland, is on a visit to Gisborne, and is causing quite a flutter in the breasts of certain amiable youths there. • — Scott; the Ponsonby light-weight, is watching that neighbourhood with a view to operating upon the burglars. — The Ponsonby young lady who fainted when she heard that the burglars were next door on the previous night, says she could frighten the gang with a look, and we believe her. — One of the residents of the Bachelors Hall, Pukekohe, is contemplating a matrimonial alliance with the daughter of a wealthy new-chum from the Emerald Isle. — The Rev. James Cosh, who a few years back filled the pulpit of St. Andrew's Church in this city, is now moderator of the Presbyterian I General Assembly of New South Wales. — The marriage of Mr A. King, of Ponsonby, to Miss Helden, of Duke-street, Newton, will take place at Christmas, and the honeymoon spent at Parihaka. — Dr Maunsell is about to retire from the charge of St. Mary's, Parnell, and to enjoy rest after many years of active and zealous service in the church. — Spurgeon was very severe the other night on " ecclesiastical millinery shops," " Anglican toy shops," and clerical stage managers and entertainments. It is reported that Mr Hitchcock is itching to " go for him." — Montague Smith has thrown up the churchwarden business, and joined a well - known auctioneer's firm at Gisborne. He is also treasurer for a racing club, and it said that lie is about to be married. — Miss Parnell, sister of the " Liberator," recently, in a gentle and lady -like manner, rebuked Mr Gladstone as as a " hypocritical, cowardly, bloodthirsty miscreant." What a dear, charming creature she must be. — A Ponsonby resident, who is a shining light in one of our city churches, keeps a revolver and a double-barrelled gun loaded and ready for action, and vows he will let daylight into the first burglar who visits his domicile. — Mr Archibald Forbes, the celebrated "special," is lecturing in Canada, and, after visiting the Southern States, will come to Australia, via San Francisco. He will not return home for two years. — When Mason got news at Parihaka that he had won the big money in Abbott's £10,000 he ■wa3 lying in his tent. He merely raised his head, exclaimed, " I suppose it's all right," and relapsed into placid, slumber. — It is probable that Mr E. M. Edgecumbe will, after all, be in time for the Tauranga election, as he arrived at Albany by the P. and O. Co's steamship Rome on the 20th. Mr G. A. Horton, of the Herald, was also a passenger. — Gilbert says if the burglars will call at his shop next time when he is in, he will mix something that will warm the "cockles of their hearts." He believes in encouraging local industry. — Mr Bindon's school at Newton is likely to make a creditable figure at the next annual examinations. He is a most indefatigable and skilful superintendent, and is well supported by his teachers. — A marriage will shortly take place between Mr Clotherer, Toka Toka, and Miss Tease. They will leave for England immediately after the marriage. — What was Mr Keetley doing in the prisoners' dock at the last sitting of the R.M. Court ? This is what comes of making so many sucking Blackstones that they elbow out the old practitioners from the bar. Had the Legal Practitioners Bill become law, the Government would have had to enlarge all the court-houses. —The adopted daughter of a lady evangelist last week deserted maidenhood for matrimony. The lady's son also contemplates committing himself in a similar manner shortly. Under these circumstances the L. E. begins to feel lonely, and renewed hope has sprung up in the manly Bosom of a Thames parson. — Garrard spent the whole of last Saturday interviewing some dirty pakeha Maoris and Maori fishmen, and in the evening he was heard stating that, having conferred with a large number of influential citizens and several Maori' chiefs of great prominence, lie had been able to come to an

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intelligent conclusion on the Parihaka operation, What it was he did not say.

— Mr R. E. Mclvor, the Victorian analytical chemist, is now in Auckland. It is to be hoped that he will make a more careful examination of the soils of the province before pronouncing an opinion thereon than he did in the case of the Waikato. He ought not to repeat the blunder of imagining that the Mata Mata run is all Waikato.

— The St. Andrew's Association, inspired and incited thereto by the solemnly eloquent E.W.B., intend to challenge the Hamilton Debating Society to a public discussion, to take place in St. Andrew's Hall, Symond-strcet. The Hamiltonians are to pay their own expenses to Auckland and back. Should this undertaking prove successful, the St. A. A. intend making a starring debating tour through the Southern provinces, and possibly the Australian Colonies. Nothing like cheek. • — There are not many young ladies who would behave with the pluck of the Misses Lloyd, of Ponsonby. When they heard the burglars trying to effect an entrance they cried out for " Sarah," " Tom," " George," etc., to wake up and repel the intruders. By these means they created an impression on the burglarious mind that a number of young men were in the house. One of the young ladies still further strengthened this impression by putting on a pair of men's boots and walking about the house with a heavy masculine step, as if in search of weapons. The burglars decamped.