PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 67, 24 December 1881, Page 238

PERSONAL

— F. C. Burnand the famous dramatist and editor of " Punck " lias 14 children. —Many Auckland people will be glad to hear Mi- Jim Nicol is enjoying good health in Sydney. — Miss Mattin, of Kyber Pass, and Mr Edward of Ponsonby, are engaged. — Miss Shale, of Onehunga, is engaged to Mr John Eedding of the same locality. — The Plummer case will go " high " for Pardy at head quarters, though to Jeffrey also belongs much of the kudos. — Mr W. Massey will shortly bring his two years engagement to a happy termination. — Miss Maggie Johnston writes to say that she was never engaged to Mr Tease, of Newmarket. — Miss Derbyshire and Mr Hemmingway, botli of the U.M.F.0., are to be married very shortly. — Another engagement at the London Arcade. This time a lady. She sang one of Sankey's hymns shortly afterwards. — Mr Wheeler, of Gundry-strcct Newton, is said to be engaged to Miss Minnie Bane, of the same locality. — The engagement between Mr Andrew McLoughlin, of Arch-hill, and Miss Levcnia Camwell, of Ponsonby has been broken off. — Mr Chas. Findlay, Chapel-street, and Miss Kate Philan, Arch-hill, are engaged to be married. — Dr Wallis is now going to farm at Lucas Creek, as he is afraid that his reputation woidd not run more pulpiteering. Harry Biggs expects to be in town at Christmas, and the old man is hunting round for the fatted calf. — Mr Van Asche, the principal of the Sumner Deaf and Dumb Asylum, is at present spending his holidays in Auckland. — Miss Cherry Connel returned to Auckland by the Rotomahana on Tuesday after a visit to the South. — Mr C. Codling, of Onehunga, is about to take the fatal plunge with a charming young lady of Epsom. •>— J. D. S., a bachelor of some sixty summers, at Wairoa, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar a blooming widow of middle age. — An engagement is announced between Dick Heekley, of Seafield View and Annie Smith, of the Whau. — Water's would do well to put on a few more waiters. People are apt to lose their appetites •while waiting for their dinners.* —What does H E , of the Kyber Pass, do down at the North Shore Ferry boat every Sunday night at eight o'clock. — Miss Alley was greatly delighted with the " memento " she had presented to her just before her departure to the Thames. — Mrs Hopper, of Glenora, has quite recovered from her recent illness and is able to get about again. — A copy of Sherrin's pamplet on the Bank of New Zealand has been posted to all the leading brokers on the London Stock Exchange. — A marriage will shortly take place between Ned Gratland, of Newmarket, and Loria Leaver, of the Kyber Pass. — MrE. Niccol and Miss Sarah Eevcl, both of Tuakau, are engaged, and the marriage is expected to take place at an early date. — Mr E. Carson, foreman at C. Major's, is to be married to Miss Taylor on the 3ist of this month. — Mr Christopher Truer, of the " Lancashire Lass, is to be married at an early date to Miss Mary Fitzgerald, of Parnell. — Mi* Carson, who recently returned from a trip to the old country, is engaged to be married to Miss Taylor, of Chapel-street. The event comes off about a fortnight hence. — Charley Neil, alias "Kaipara Charley," is to be married to Miss A. Abslom, in February. The honeymoon to take place at Kaipara. — George Eobinson is about to marry Missß. George, in January. The honeymoon to be spent at the Thames. — Two sons of our old friend John Jack hay c started a Comedy Company in America, and were playing " M'Liss " to fair business when the mail left. — Harry Parker has made a " haul " under the new Beer Duty Act. Stick to it Harry and you'll be a collector yet ; not the slightest doubt about it. — Mr Mat. Henderson has returned by last mail from " Frisco " after two years absence. Mat's fairy tales about " Frisco " are qviite amusing. — Little Miss Ursula Dunsford — the youthful belle of Onehunga, looked perfectly bewitching in town on Friday in a fawn Mother Hubbard Bonnet and Elfin Costume. — Miss Newby, sister-in-law to Judge Macdonald, is said to possess a powerful and well cultivated voice. She arrived from England the other day. — Hermann, the famoxis conjurer, has returned to England from a tour in South America, which in eighteen months is said to have enabled him to clear the handsome sum of £32,000. — F. H. Lewisson, for having the largest assorted and cheapest stock of all goods in his line, should be visited before purchasing elsewhere. — [Advt.] — Miss Burnett lost £18 (a quarters salary) through getting married ten days too soon. Mr O has plenty money though and preferred his girl to the filthy lucre. J. W., a youthful competitor, won the gold star of the Company at Wairoa. The former possessor attribiites his defeat to the bright eyes of a charming young widow who is visiting the district. — R. A. A. Sherrin is at present busily engaged canvassing for capital wherewith to start a a penny morning paper in Auckland on strictly liberal and Greyite principles. The sum of £5000 has already been promised and Mr Sherrin accompaneel by Mr Sheehan leave for the Waikato shortly with the intention of persuading Eewi and Tawhiao to subscribe £5000 more.

— The correspondent who forwarded the announcement of an engagement between Mr Lundon and Miss Kclls, writes that he was requested to do so by a friend of Mr Patrick Lundon. — Mr Pond, the popular chemist has started in the - c fishing business." We hear both Cheeseman of the Institute, and Captain Anderson are in the " swim." We hope the Company will continue to " float." —A young lady was endeavouring to give the correct reading of " Admiral AslanbegofE " to a select company the other evening and made it "Aslumbago."" We hope the admiral will soon got better if he " has lumbago." —Captain Murdoch, of the " Loch Urr " has now made nine trips from London to Auckland in the "Loch Urr," but will have to come a little quicker through the water next time or he will not be able to score ten. — Mrs Macdonald deserves great credit for the manner in Avhich she pushed forward the Trinity Church gathering on Thursday evening last. Mr Keefe as Spriggins in the after piece was immense. The lady singers were very nicely got up and sang sweetly — as per usual. — Harry P , a teacher in the Newton Sunday school, profiting by the example set by his two sisters, and determining not to bo beaten by the fourth, lias at last proposed, and the lady after a week's deliberation, has accepted him. The marriage is to come off shortly. — Ir. the course of next session, Sir George Grey will move that a Parliamentary investigation take place into tho books of the Bank of New Zealand (as holders of the Government account). This course it appears was once taken with the Bank of England at home, a fact which will be quoted as a precedent. — A most extraordinary thing lias occurred in connection with the publication of Mr Sherrin's pamphlet on the Bank of New Zealand. Five thousand copies have dissapeared it is not known when or where. The publisher received the cash for them but they can't be traced and the only possible inference is that interested persons destroyed them. — Two bogus engagements of a peculiarly obnoxious character were sent to us last week by a person signing herself Jane Watson and dating from Queen-street Onehunga. One announced an engagement between a Mr Black and a Miss Addison and the other between a Mr Gibeny and Mrs Young. Both were false and have given much annoyance to the parties, Miss Addison having called in person to refute the first named. We are determined to put a stop to these disgraceful practical jokes and hereby announce that we shall place the next forged letter in the hands of the detective police with instructions to discover the culprit no matter what the expense may be. Perhaps when some gentleman has been sent to cool his heels in Mt. Eden for a week or two the nuisance will cease.