Personal.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 521, 15 December 1888, Page 11

Personal.

■- — ;-♦— -— —7-7- -■■-', .: . ;£>?";>s — The real Sir Roger is said to have 'mS&mjl. a clean breast of it to. the Tichborrie family a£>£i last— of course.- for vValue received;' „.' . ■ . „,'S| ~ ' The profits arising from : my .•poerusj-^ writes the Bard of 6tahuhu,.in his ' statement "fcp"^ the official Assignee, '.went into the business.' v i Alas poor Wills ! ' - „ . ' .• „-•*•?>; ;i — '.One by one the roses fade!' AndU^ so it seems that 'Madge,', the gushing young- ,; thing* who writes so charmingly in Truth, is Mts'V.t J. Humphreys, ' a middle-aged Irishwoman '.!.* ;^ /*• —Twopeny is bossing the arrangements in : ; connection with the proposed Dunedin Exhibi-.'/-; tion. The same gentleman, we believe, 'got up '•'■'"■.' the Exhibition held at Christchurch some yearis -- ; ago, which was described as - a big fan oy bazaar.' ' : \ — Two Whifcechapel men, aocordiuijHo a ;■' •■.• London paper, " being desirous of getting rid of .v, their respective better halves, decided i;o'sw.op'~ V wives, and the two menages , are now being.' rim>,. under new management;,' and so far with perfect" o ''' success. . ■ „ ■"'',' :" — Mr.W. Ai "Wathen, of Dunedin. j-mr-: ■' nalist, has taken two ber-lud and, thunder vacua'. : x to Melbourne, where tie intends' to -publish' them. ;■;; and then, following the example of Fergus Hurrie," ' ' he goes on to London to ' boom' the S3.?e of hid ■ productions. ' ' /'■■" • — The Eev. Joseph Hay, of Els tern wick, S^ Yip., following in the footsteps of Bishop Moor-J ( house, has refused to pray for rain. He^ told.hisv ■ astonished flock that he ' regarded ifc as litfclo shorfc\ ~. of impious that the Lord- should be asked to up----' set the natural order of things to oblige an iih-. 5. provident people.' ' '"■•.'- .-.i — Miss Susan "Winte;-, of Wueafclaiids, >- ; Montana, United States, has sued the editor of» / the local rag tor libel. She is engaged to a young 1 ' 1 ' man named Spring, and the edibor, in alluding to ;' the fact, quoted the remark-about' Winter lir-ger- Z ; ing in the lap of Spring. . .*, — A pet tiou is being signed in Gisborne praying for the release of Mr ,T. Baldwin, late : editor of the Gisborno Independent, sentenced ' to six months' imprisonment for criminal-' libel.. -,■•; According to the Napier Neivs, Mr Baldwin,, who v ia in failing health, was more sinne.d against than sinning. - - — Sir Julius, in his forthcoming novel, . •. anticipates a glorious future for 'the eoinhiet> woman.' In the year 2000 a woman is to be Prim» ( . Minister, and the Leader of the Opposition .; another ! ' Women's Bights ' aro to be recognised' . at last, and in short the sex is, to wear th'e'.br — -' divided skirts. - - •, * ; «? — We understand that the nnraos at iheV,^> hospital, the old stagers that is, will look oit-''«tt/ f .; an amputation with perfect indifrerence, and Eeeiv. :; . man carved up without a shudder ;,but. ifpne.of . : i these same ladies is asked to handle a leech, she 0 ,./ gives a little scream, and shows unmistakable- . symptoms of ' going 1 off.' .■; -'[, ' '; — It is a remarkable thing that the.Oamara ;J.' f.eople do not appear to have discovered what art-"' estimable individual the late Earl, of Seaneld was-; ; j until after he came into the title. Prior -to that".'; he was ' only a common bailiff ' and ■ lived in. - obscurity. After his rise in life he became the net of Oamara's hnpper suckles, and died, as the ■• . local papers dea'are, " universally respected.' — A Dargaville solicitor visited Auckland : ? the other day to consult a learned brother, oh s bme '■'?} technical point or other. The latter, -before re-'' 4 ... : plying to the quary, said : ' I generally get paid . for what I know ;' whereupon the Darg-a-yille. man pulled out half -a-crown, and said : 'Tell meall'y." you know and give me the change.' The Dargja-":-'. Iville paper is responsible for thi3, but; y<ki needn't;.. / ; believe it unless you want to. , " ' •;. —It is remarkable that when .some poor/";! devil without a sixpence in the world. dies at. thel a;? Hospital or the Eefuge at, say, fifty or fiva-and-, " : f? fifty, the dailies, in chronicling the affair, invari-V' \ ably rafor to the deceased 'ahold man named' ap- .:•-; aud-so.' Bat when a resident dies, at the. satii© .••■ , age, wifch a substantial balance at his bankers,' : > the corr'ecb way of referiing to the melancholy> , ; ; event is ' Our esteemed fellovr-citizsn, ,who;passe<i >: -M away yesterday at the comparatively early age'.ot' Z'S, fifty.'* ' ;,. ■ ...,-'* •"^'.•-Q.—Dr. Hocken has been lecturing at D'Jn-O"?---edin on 'The Early Days of N,ew Zealand.' t)e- '' scribing the gaol discipline 0! that time, ■■ toe ;: lecturer said they took things pretfcy easily. ■ Qn-. v one occasion a prisoner wished to see a' doctor,; .' : and was released by the gaoler in order that he>: ■> might do so. The invalid prescribed for hi msolf-v 't: -'.'-. at the nearest pub., and had to be carried baofe? to chokee on a shutter. ', V .•-■■'V : — Taking advantage of the fact that this' I .' . i 3 leap year, and that it {3 nearly at' ah. end, :l^r :'>, lady of mature years and faded charma. popped':".' the question to ihe richest man in Auckland -the;- ;•.'' other day. Did ifc in the open street, too, Heod';'«: loss of tho jeering crowd, and that the object; of., >. ; : her affection is already provided with a wife, th§r' '":;.' lady ttirewher arms around the Beck of the milv ;j lionairo, and was with diffiaiilfcy thrown, o^f. '"Sbe'r-V 1 ?. wooed not wisely but too well? and could not haye. T V ! selected 0, greener way of doing iv. ■ • " -J'^-f, I - - -'--•■.'■ S '-' '-'"■■"' -'' : I — Froude appears to have dropped across v, ! our champion liar when he was in Auckland. , JEEe < I was particularly struck with the ;A\ickland fruit shops and, their .tempting 1 displays. ' Oiit-door ■'-'•\ \ grapes may be had for the asking,', says he,/ and j f£ ; are" good enough for all. ordinary appetites." -;\ ; . i There are grapes grown iinder glass, fpr^tftpaei;-..^ ,vho can only be satisfied with expensive liixuries^n? These a.rs -tbjtee-and-sixpence:' impound, and %rV^r reserved -for 1 privileged classes. A-'poor-. l^ clergyman's wife, with ' a sick husband •wapVg I tempted 'by the hauclsome bunches' which ':BKei]:^ ! saw in a shop window. She";laid . ihem "doNfrotiV^ j witli a sigh when she was told . the price, , T^&^i shopman pitied her.-, " 'Tisn't the likes of you,". : . ; '^ ! j 'ho 'said, " that can afford to bay' them- grapes^- we", vr : si i keep' ihetn for inett'a'; ladies.'^ kßoshX ' • .r--^-%-'^:'^^- y --^'rC :^%'-K i^:^M

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