OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 16

OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

I m oft to Dixie,' as the ten-pound note saidi as it was crushed into W. D.'s pocket. ' Gordon of Khartoum.'— The lecture on theabove on "Wednesday night was a first-class edition of ' Gulliver's Travels.' Poor L. unlocked his heart when lie paid away that tenner, but he did it with a rusty key after asevere struggle. Great O. on the racecoui'se was taken forGeneral Komeroff, ani would have been mobbed, but" his brogue and his white hat saved him. Harry says some mean skunk must have told Hugo all about his car'racter, or how would he haveknown that he was a little soft on the girls. That sub-private in the 'owlinor Fanny did look queer when Hugo said to him— '"Ton can't help it, my boy, you were born short of reasoning power * ' Poor 'Arry ! . . Jim to Lizzie — 'There ain't many getting married now, but there is perhaps some peer unfortunatefellow who would like to — like mad, but can't get courage tp a9k his girl.' Lizzie to Jim— • Well then., darling, why don't you ask pa?' P.S.— The latest telegram states that poor Jim had to be carried home> on a stretcher. We all want to know, Mr Editor, who thedickens were the chickens that mystified us with their jottings last week. None of us here know anythingabout their twaddle. We caught two escaped lunatics, a few days ago, and sent them to the Whau. Mu3t welook for more, or give those two the credit of writingabout Mary, tramcar3, and Queen-street, when we haveno sich pussons ' here ?