come Auckland Evictions.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 6

c ome Auckland Evictions.

A most unpacific evening was spent in a Queen-street hetel last week. The lord and master had an ' argument ' with the missus, and two gentlemen, wishing to arbitrate, resolved to board there for the night. When the lord and lady of the house got to blows during the night, the two arbitrators separated them, whereupon mine host and brought in a sergeant and constable to evict the pacific boarders. The ' foorce ' couldn't see it and left abruptly. Hostilities again broke out, there was another appeal for arbitration, and again a policeman was called in. This bobby was more sagacious, for he went and brought round a City Councillor, who read the clause of the Licensing Act bearing upon such matters, and advised the arbitrators to leave, because one of the parties was ' agin ' ai'bitratiou. So at 2 a.m. a City Councillor, a policeman and two respectable oitizens came tumbling out of a well-known pub, with an irate husband and weeping wife in the rear. It 18 well that the circumstances should be Eet forth as above, to prevent spiteful people saying nasty things about the affair. It is Dot so easy to explain the why and wherefore of two solicitors, two jockey boys, and a Queen-street merchant being chucked out or drummed out of a certain house in Cook-street at an early hour on Sunday morning last. It was not a public-house, so a ' row ' in it ia not subject to the same investigation ; but perhaps some reader will fill in the details of what must have been an interesting sorimmage.

Is it a Hospital nurse or probationer that the boy in blue is after ? The nurse would make the best wife. I suppose I shall find out what's the matter soon.

A lady makes an indignant complaint because an Auckland photographer would not ' take ' her dog and darling baby in the one carte. Perhaps he objects to a dog-cart as being a dangerous vehicle for babies.

Those two detectives had better be friends. Their little inquiry turned out unsatisfactory to both, as the Commissioner plumply told them that if they had not sense enough to agree, they would be promptly degraded to the rank of constable.

A Newton correspondent wants to know, you know, why a young butcher ia so attentive to Tommy's wife, and why the piano-playing is allowed to disturb the people of Cross-street, and a lot of other things. I give it up as a Chinese puzzle.

A certain Jolly Miller connected with a boot factory is accused of bolting without paying his landlady. I thought such mean tricks were only perpetrated by solicitors, &c. Necessity knows no law, but lawyers frequently know necessity. The Jolly Miller and all other defaulters of this sort had better stump up or clear out.

«B. B. writes as follows:— To the Editor: Sir, — In your Onehunga news I see the word ' slavey ' for servant girl. It has a ring of the Howard type about it, and must Bound differently to your ears than it does to mine, or you would have struck it out of your correspondent's copy. Probably you overlooked the word. Your correspondent rubbed shoulders many a day at school and elsewhere with the likes of her he now calls ' slavey.'