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

—If the delay in issuing the writ for Waitemata is for political reasons. — If you have heard of that little elopment from Auckland a fortnight ago. — Whether the art exhibits in the 1 Chamber of Horrors ' are to be Art Unioned ? -Whether Feymour Thome George gave his consent to Sir George Grey's visit to England. — If you have heard the ' Dahvee ' joke. It has occasioned much amusement in local society circles. — What the postal delegates thought of Auckland as the New Zealand port of call on the Vancouver route. — If things are really so bad with the legal profession that memberg are compelled to canvass for business. — Who the young man with the laugh was who led the hilarity in the Opera House dresa-circle last Friday. — What the outcome of the sixpenny pops opposition will be. Abbott and Gee will rnn one and John Fuller the other. — If you have heard Wynyard's story of the amorous Colonel and the change at New Plymouth. It is worth hearing. — What the cotnn»ittee of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club intend to do with the pound so kindly donated to them by Lord Glasgow. — If the proprietor of a certain influential newspaper has recovered yet from his fright on account of that threatened libel action from two wealthy brewers. — The name of the policeman who strnck a Maori woman with his baton at the Mercer affair so that we might recommend him for a leather medal for his gallantry. — If the Presbyterians will persist in the endeavour to introduce the Irish Scripture Lesson Book into the schools after the exposure of the objectionable passages that has just been made. — Whether the stout old buffer who sat on the young lady's knee on the Ponsonby 'bus because she was in his accustomed seat would like his picture in next week's iaene. — Why Government persists in shipping Home those guns for hoop-chasing in the teeth of Sir Wm. Jervois' positive assurance that it is absolutely unnecessary. Bang goes another .£9000 ! — Whether the renowned reciter of the ' Charge of the Light Brigade ' intends to run the Zealandia Eink during the coming rinking season. The girls all want to know this as well as the Obsebvbr. — Whether Colonel Fox is satisfied with the progress he is making with the reorganization of the volunteer forces. Another corps — the East Coast Hussars — has just reorganized itself out of existence. — If the Union Company will survive the fit of generosity that prompted it to give free passes for 8: trip to New Zealand to the policemen injured in the affray with burglars at their offices in Sydney. Scotch generosity ! — If it is not very wrong of Cr. Shaldrick to refer to Her Ladyship the Mayor of Onehunga as ' yer washup.' ' Wash-up ' is so suggestive of the domestic duties of the kitchen which her ladyship has left behind her. — Whether the Sydney ' push ' now in Auckland, and who go about at night (according to Detective Grace) with blackened faces, with a view to assault and robbery, wouldn't have been wiser to remain in Sydney, where the magistrates are afraid to punish larrikins and. roughs. Maoriland magistrates are constructed on a different plan. — Who the boys are that have beeu collecting money for school sports lately, and whether this touting for subscriptions in the streets is not a very objectionable thing, degrading to the boys and a nuisance to the public. One man who gave these boys a shilling the other day discovered, on looking at their book, that one page had been torn clean out. Were there any subscriptions entered on that page ?