Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 792, 3 March 1894, Page 4

— Whether Mrs Mayor Yates has the remotest idea of resigning. — How many girls got kissed at the Oddfellows' picnic on Saturday. — Where Dickey Duncan gets to after the election fever subsides ? — Whether any business man is wise to part with p.n.'s (signed, but not filled in). — When J. D. Wickham's book will be published and what it will be about when it is published. — Whether Pastor Blaikie won't ' take time by the forelock ' when he wants to catch a train again. — Whether the passengers by the Nautilus enjoyed the trip home from the Oddfellows' picnic on Saturday ? — Whether Fillis was much disappointed at not being permitted to give away that chestnut horse the other night ? — Whether the Herald leaders, broken up into inch blocks or cubes, wouldn't make a good substitute for road metal. — Whether the Salvation Army' (Auckland contingent) is in as flourishing a condition as it used to be, and if not, why not ? — Whether over 100 per cent is bad interest for the use of <£25 for three months P Jumping Mosee! We should say not, anyway. — Whether the performances of the B. and B. Company are not a most welcome relief after a surfeit of burnt-cork and faded female charms. — Why that cockle-shell the Nautilus should have two captains (and a ' first hossifer ') while the Britannia and Eagle can only run one captain apiece ? — If the whole of the Presbyterian clergymen who dealt with the case of the Rev. S. J. Neill conscientiously believe in the orthodox doctrines of predestination and election. — If the Martin who is a candidate for Waitemata is the individual who assisted Eliza Rice to sing ' Rule Britannia ' at the famous free-and-easy on the recent election day. — What the Union Company would give now to see the last of the Huddart Parker opposition. It is costing them tons of money, and the worst of it is that it looks healthier every trip. — Whether the occupants of the private box at the Opera House on Brougb. and Boucicault's opening night were gentlemen. The apparel does not always proclaim the man. —Whether young Thomson's appointment as clerk in Wellington R.M. Court is to be regarded as a recognition by the powers that be of his heroic oonduct in capturing the Taranaki highway-boy. '■ — Whether Mrs Grundy (Auckland editor would be very much shocked if Aucklanders followed Sydney's lead and permitted the sexes (every regard being paid to propriety to bathe together ? — If it was not a bit unkind of the crowd to laugh at Lord Kilburn because he happened to be last to tie his ribbon in that contest at the polo sports. Somebody must be last, and why not Lord K. as well as anybody else. — What the Government has to say about the behaviour of the Commissioner of Police in inciting a cabby to a breach of the Christchurcli city by-laws. There are many reasons why high police officials should set other people a good example. ' — If it was not a bit strange that he Customs people initiated their practice of counting passengers on excursion steamers to prevent overcrowding at the Oddfellow's picnic. Of course they must commence somewhere, but a little of this precaution on the occasion of the last Takapuna races would have been as desirable as it was on Saturday, — Whether a priest is justified, under any circumstances whatever, in divulging the secrets of the confessional. This is the query the production of * A Village Prießt' in London gave rise to, and which it has given rise to in Auckland since B. & B. put on Sydney Grundy 's great play at the Opera House.