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Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 794, 17 March 1894, Page 5

Auckland Liberal Association is, we hear, to be thoroughly re-organised and set upon a new and firmer basis. Quite time. Is it true that the Rev. J. B. Johnson left the H. H. Mission because it fflmh &r^^^\ was ' becoming too sectarian and narrow wmgk W/ \ for him,' and was he applying to the Emwmii \ Wesleyan Conference at that very time to ilffl&Pgir -^5% \ be appointed to the Home Mission Staff — s£r~ W^-, "» \ which application the Conference declined &&^ WSsst} ' ' *^~r •> to entertain ? This is, at any rate, a yarn v££^m®mm\ *& v^t current up North. /^^^Jffl^ffiffil' \_ ) "^sil It is whispered that the resignation "/vt^iiffliiSv J lsjitfP : Z«M& by Seth Smith of his position as Land 'llHi\\7W^ Court Judge was not the voluntary act on J dg%Mwl!M'//h\ «a. ft/" 1 vftK his part that it has been represented as. m^^M^^W~^A V^BK. V <|V Moreover, it appears now that the Govern- 'Jw^^^W^<^a^\ Wk. ment are by no means in tribulation over I »\ the resignation. They had reason to ez- V s^' % pect it before the blow fell upon them. ' \ We are very sorry that Mr Harris was unsuccessful in his candidature for the Board of Education, because he would have made a good member. Bnt better Ol R Q TT A TT If luck next time. Messrs Muir and Lambe £jl have fully justified the confidence that has been shown in them, while the appointment of Rev. J. Bates to the Board is a THE WORLD-RENOWNED judicious choice. We are favoured with the impressions of a gentleman who recently MEDICINE MAN travelled in the steamers Tasmania and Mararoa. He speaka eloquently in praise of the Tasmania and her arrangements, Who has created great sensation throughbut he says that on the Mararoa he and nni . .•,„ tt •.. a rr- a n , his friends were face to face all the time out the Umted Kin e dom ' Ca P c Colony, with the fact that they were travelling at Spain, Holland and Belgium, Egypt, a£2 fare. < The stewards especially,' he Britiah j^^ Burmah, (Straits Setsays, were very careful that we should ' ' «*««.» ooir not be allowed to forget it.' tlements, China, Japan, Java, Amongst the passengers for Sydney Queensland, Northern Towns per Wairarapa on Tuesday night, were two of New South Wales, young Auckland drapers until lately assistants in a big Queen-street retail house, who have given up * soft goods ' to " embark in a new line. These young men have become proprietors of the steam merry-go-round, recently in full swing at TT A S T T7IT 17 T? TC Newton. The 'purchase consideration' Jj^^- 1 - YY-&.&-&. for the whirligig was, we understand, .£550. As the late proprietor of thiß TVT tTTm7T , MTV machine took as much as £60 in one day 1W AUCKIjAND. while in Auckland the prospects of the soft goods' men would appear to be rosy. We wish them luck. he will, Everyone was sorry to hear of the death of poor little Flora Campbell, who died in Sequah's consulting rooms on ts " SPEAK DAILY Monday afternoon. But Sequah cannot be held in any way responsible for what happened. His female assistant, noting „ m , ,„. , the dying condition of the child, declined At Thr »« and Eight, to operate on her. The cause of death was heart-disease. Sequah himself was on his way to give his usual open-air lecture x© when he heard of the sudden death of the little girl. At the ' battle of Mercer ' the other THE SICK, day, one unfortunate Maori, guilty of nothing more serious than having a stick in his hand, was rushed by a constable who THE HALT, and closed with him and the pair rolled over and over until they reached the river „,„_, T _ „ bank. Here the Maori, appearing to iMiJi LAMJi think that it was a pity to have brought the guardian of the peace all that way for ON nothing, ducked hi 3 head under waterBut other constables came to the rescue, at t nTMwwT rwßxrinw m? /-ytto-giat the duoker was ducked, hit on the head ALLOTMENT CORNER OF QUEEN with a police baton (an awkward crack it was !) and finally hand-cuffed and ran in. AND CUSTOM STREETS. And all thanks to that little bit of a stick ! We have read columns of sentimental twaddle in the newspapers about Sir George Grey's trip to England, but not COME, SEE, HEAE AND JUDGE FOR one word about the cavalier manner in YOUESELVES which he has disfranchised the electors of Auckland by absenting himself from the coming session of Parliament without as much as saying 'by your leave ' or 'I am sorry,' &c. But Sir George Grey evidently thinks that he can do as he pleases with r i npj<?TTTTATTO'Nr<3 tto-ew the people of Auckland, and no doubt he is CONSULTATIONS FREE I right. However, Auckland will certainly T> n ;w from in f^ 19 n+ cuk^ lose one vote by his absence when the Daily ' frOm 10 *° 12 ' at Office « question of the rival railway claims of ott?t t -p<ar wv <aTT?T?T?T Auckland and Wellington come to be WELLESLEY STREET, settled. t,. , , „ „ Five doors above Opera House. Many frequenters of the Opera House dress-circle appear to consider it the o'reot thing to arrive late. Looks so stylish, don't you know. And of course you can't enter a crowded dress-circle twenty minutes or so after the rise of the ef* LADIES WITH RHEUMATISM ourtam without attracting universal attention, and when you've ' got 'em all on ' TREATED BY A TRAINED LADY univers al attention is so grateful and comforting !If the people who make a regular NURSE, EVERY AFTERNOON BEpractice of being late in this way could only hear the wh ispered comments on their con- TWEEN 2 and 4. duct they might think the game hardly worth playing. People don't pay four and five b hillings to admire other people's finery ; they want to see the play. That peopl e should make a practice of arriving _^ _, -. TT late and shutting out stage and players for O E ti U A H five or six minutes while they are being lO shown to their seats is conduct worthy only of snobs who think nothing of moon- £^ P ]? A IT Q venienoing a orowd of other people who 5^ * -uAIVO have made a point of being seated in good time. The late arrivals were particularly numerous on Tuesday night, the last night of the Brough-Bouoioauit season.