NEWSY NOTES.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 624, 13 December 1890, Page 10

NEWSY NOTES.

New York has women aentists

There is a lady dentist at Napier,

The Atkinson Government is defeated.

Eclipse of the sun on Friday afternoon, 12th inst.

German emigration has been Bteadily decreasing since 1887.

The Emperor of Austria never allows a woman to be hanged.

Charles Stewart ParneTili has been formally deposed from the leadership of the Irish party.

David Gotje, an Auckland bankrupt, has .£5689 book d«bts, which he expects will realise only about <£10.

Dtjbing the half year, ending 30th Sept. last. Auckland City Council paid .£553 5/- interest on its Bank overdraft.

The Postmaster General of Victoria, proposes the abolition of the postage on newspapers. It is already abolished in New South Wales.

Writing to Figaro, Louise M'chel says, 1 Not only do I refrain from asking that women should enter Parliament, but I demand that the three or four honest men who remain there should come out, and that they should no more re-enter that den of thieves.'

Auckland Citt Council pay about £400 per annum for printing, stationery, and advertising. Not a penny of this comes to the Observbb — probably because the astute City Fathers know it would have no effect in stopping full and trenchant criticism.

London compositors allege that while sporting and theatrical publications are all produced by full-paid labour, the Bible, which has the largest circulation in the world ; the publications of t^e S. P. C. X., also some of the editions of the Church Service and Book of Common Prayerhave all been produced by underpaid labour.

The son of a. Melbourne comedian married against his father's wish. However, he daringly took his bride right to his father'B door and knocked. The old man came himself. Says the son : ' Eather, we've come.' The comedian called upstairs to his wife : ' Mary, they've ooine.' Then he added : ' Now. you may go away again.'

A CHTJRCH-GOiNG bookie was absent on a late Sunday, owing to a little affair in which fightiner-coeks and steel spurs had a big say. The parson missed him— Stiff 'nn always drops a sovereign in the plate— and aßked the missus his whereabouts in the porch. ' John could not come to church to-day,' she replied. * The fact is, he has to do a little betting, but he told me to say he is with you in spirit.'

The latest reports about the Mormon abandonment of polygamy place another complexion on it — that is to say, it is apparently to be an evasion, instead of an owning-up. Kven more influential than President Woodruff, the Platonic and ' seventeen- wife-jummng-all-into - bed - at-once-and-who'll-pnt-out-the-light ?' abjuring successor of Brigham the Brigamous, is Elder Cannon, who has four wives. Now, Cannon, speaking at the great polygamic pow-wow a few weeks ago, said : IWe give in under compulsion, with so many millions against us.'

J. WENDEii, the well-known wine manufacturer, of Symondf-s^reet, Auckland, finding 1 that his stock of well-matured win^s is too large, in view of the approaching wine-mo king season, and in order to rprluce the s»nw, aw). thus hn in a position to keep faith with the growers of grapes in this province by purchasing their fruits ns he his done for so mo-ny seasons, wishes it generally known that his ■ pure and nourishing: wines, which are specially suitnhle for invalid , and good for all alike, may be now procured at reduced prices at bis manufactory as above.