CHIPS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 348, 8 August 1885, Page 3

CHIPS.

"Hew to the line— let the chips fall where they may." — Shakespeke. A new churn declares the people of Auckland are all Christians. He says, ' I was a stranger and ye took me in.' The police have got onto the lay of the larrikin, and there is trouble in the Ishmaelite camp. It's about time for they had began to ' boss the ranche.' We can always think of it when it is too late. But why did we not arrange for cheap excursions from England, a round-the-world trip that should take in our Exhibition. Thousands of people who had money would have come here, and then stayed. The ' good young men ' seem to be all going wrong just now. They can discount us reprobates every pop. I have always had the credit of being the ' black sheep ' of our family, but these youths who have come to the penitent bench early can give me a stone and a beating right off the reel any time. „ It requires more than ordinary sanctity and patience for a pretty girl to sit out a dreary sermon in church while half-a-dozen fleas are playing leap-frog around her garters, and this perhaps accounts for so much of the uneasiness and impatience we see on Sunday nights amongst the dear creatures. I went to the Opera House on Sundaynight to hear Gerald Massey kill the devil— for I want to see him killed — and 1 was astonished to see the audience. Verily, verily I say unto you that not all who call, ' Lord, Lord,' are believers. There is more Freethought in Auckland than we folks think of. So the terminus of the 'Frisco steamers is to be Auckland instead of Sydney. Well, I'm heartily glad to hear it. It will benefit the city and the colony. A man who once sees Auckland fairly always desires to hang up his hat here. The day will come when both, sides of our harbour will be lined, with wharves, and Auckland is destined to be the New York of the Southern Hemisphere. I hear of some ' newspaper fellers ' who, the other night, thought they wouldsee whether there was aught in this spiritualism that is talked so much about lately. They got round a table, and the thing began to move in a manner to make them think Gerald Massey had not completed his contract to kill the devil. They went to scoff, but they didn't remain to pray. They were too scared to do anything but ' get.' If it's wrong to sell things on a Sunday, i s it wrong to sell hymn books and Sunday school magazines ? If not, then it's not the selling but the using that's sold, and the law should say so. I have as much right to buy a couple of ounces of solace in the shape of cavendish, as my richer neighbour has a right to purchase his cigars at his club. If there is not one law for the rich and another for the poor, then two and two do not make four. The City Councillors are "a funny? lot of fellows. If time is money and bills are running on, what a lot they are spending in getting up a weekly circus every Thursday night. Reform should begin at home. Their present policy is of the save by the spile-peg while they spend through the bung-hole sort. How would it do, just for a lark, to offer Cxarrett and Goldie the position of Town Clerk and Engineer. Wouldn't their mouths water ? You bet. The cable tells us that the Czar has given strict orders for the Russian forces to avoid any warlike demonstrations. The way I read that is that there is now in contemplation another aggressive movement, and I'll go further and prophecy that before September is over events will occur that will either be war or we will have escaped it by the barest shave. Seven weeks will test my claims to be a prophet. Nay, I believe that inside four the thing will have occurred. Madness takes queer shapes. Now would you or would you not think a trio of fellows sound in the upper story would go along the streets shouting ' I've got a heye like a heagle,' just to let people know they had positively been lavish enough to spend a ' bob ' a piece to see ( Queen's Evidence.' That's exactly what some youths did on Saturday night in Hobson -street. If they desired to let the people of Auckland know that important fact, why did they not club f ourpence each and advertise it in a respectable and dignified manner. If I knew their names I'd give them a free ad.,, butl don't.

The largest stock of first-class sewing machines in Auckland. — D. S. Chambers, 20, Queen - street. Established 1879.

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