TheySay

Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 793, 10 March 1894, Page 6

They Say

— That there were over two thousand ' dead-heads ' on the Flagstaff Hill to witness the balloon ascension at the North Shore. .

— That the Brough Boucicault company have reason to agree with Lohr in thinking Auckland ' the best show town in the colony.'

—That several Auckland pastors are seriously considering: ' divine calls ' to ' fresh woods and pastures new ' — and bigger stipends.

—That the Alhambra Minstrels are doing better business in Wellington than they had in Auckland, but they have not struck a bonanza lead>yet.

— That Sir George Grey stood his trip to Wellington overland wonderfully. He is in better health now than he has been for the last two years.

— That the British 'peers' are trembling.

— That Parnell is a verra bad place for town clerks.

— That Mr Harold Montgomery, editor of the Manuhau Gazette, will conteat the seat on the Board of Education just vacated by Mr Buckhurst.

— That ' King ' Tawhiao has got a new bell-topper.

— That Gladstone's retirement is a national calamity.

— That several of the Southern Presbyterian ministers fonght tooth and nail for Rev. S. J. Neill at the General Assembly. Surely they do not think with him?

— That a good amateur dramatic ■club would catoh on in Auckland.

— That Premier Seddon should be in Auckland about Sunday or Monday.

— That the costs of prosecuting Mr John King for alleged corrupt practice were subscribed by certain leading citizens who were angry at the result of the memorable Rees-Cadman election.

— That Adam Porter is going to saakethingß ' hum ' on the Harbour Board.

— That for money-making ' brains is nowhere' compared with a merry-go-round.

-That a good way to make money is to volunteer to go around collecting subscriptions for some charitable object and apply the money collected to your own purposes. Is that sort of thing done m Auckland ? Is it not ? Rather !

—That Sir Robert Stout intends to take up his permanent residence in Wellington.

— That Premier Seddon will have a nice little picnic through the ' King ' Country.

—That on certain gunufields (we don't refer to the Wairoa now) the diggers are completely in the power of the lessees and storekeepers who plunder them right and left. * Working bullocks ' is what these New Zealand Legrees call their white slaves.

— That Mr Filliß lost a good deal of money by his recent circus tour through the colony.

— That Mr Carl Kohn leaves for the «unny South Seas shortly for another trad»g oraise.

— That two young Ponsonhy girls have recently entered npon a life of shame in Wellington.

— That on no evening during the seaßon have the Brough and Bouoioault i»kings been as low as .£IOO.

— That the Mayor of a certain small suburban town, situated less than 10,000 miles off, ia heartily sick of office.

— That Mr Crowther hasn't quite recovered yet from the cruel treatment of his pet speech by the Harbour Board.

— That Mr Huddart .has decided upon Auckland as the New Zealand port of oall for his Vancouver mail steamers.

— That a collection was actually taken up the other day at the launching of a new boat in Auckland. Of course, it was a missionary boat !

— That he must be a very clever xnan who will trip John King up in election irregularities. We don't go much on Matthew Barry's cleverness.

— That the prohibitionists have got hold of the Wellington Evening Press. The paper was in a bad way before, but this ought to just about finish it.

— That Harbour Board Chairman Porter might fairly take a leaf out of the Wellington book in the matter of harbour improvements during his term of office.

— That divers Opposition papers are thinking seriously of ' converting ' themselves into Government supporters. The Herald has been on the rail for some time.

—That the dentists will be glad when Sequah (his long hair, his fascinating smile, his triumphal car, his brass band, and his magic forceps) have gone to give some other place a turn.

— That the lady mayor of Onehunga has on her table cards and letters galore from all sorts and conditions of people who are anxious to gain her friendship or to secure her autograph.

— That the wife of the convict Thomaß Hall (now serving a life sentence for attempting to poison his wife), is still making strenuous efforts to get her husband released. She believes in his innooence as implicitly as ever !

— That Mr A. Dewar, of Ponsonby, has been appointed manager of the Mount Morgan mine at a salary of -£1300, and that he will take his family to Australia to reßide. Their friends in Auckland will greatly regret their departure.

— That fruit growers in and around Auckland have suffered and are suffering very heavily this season from the depredations of the small boy. One grower estimates his loss at five cwt. The small boy who robs orchards is seldom caught, but Nemeßis often overtakes him in the shape of the grass-green apple he has annexed.