TheySay

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 796, 31 March 1894, Page 4

They Say

— That Parliament will meet about the third week in June.

— That * Sequah ' made a heap of money during his Auckland ' season.'

— That the sensation of being chased by an able-bodied ostrich is a very unpleasant one. Some of the master butchers of Auckland can tell you all about this.

— That there is a settler of 26 years' standing at Whangarei whose first visit to Hikurangi, 10 miles distant, was made last week on the occasion of the Premier's vißit. It was a free train.

— That some ladies who were exploring Quarter-Master's Self's tent at the encampment unearthed a box of ' Sacred Songs and Solos.' No one ever suspected that Self was given that way.

— That an usher with squeaky boots will make an audience wish to wallow in his gore. Ask the people who patronised the sacred concert at City Hall on Good Friday — the people in the circle.

— That the owners of the Lake coaching services would do well to assure themselves that the drivers of the night 'buses are in a fit state to negotiate the more dangerous parts of this road.

—That the better half (?) of an Auckland ' sartorial artist ' has quitted the connubial protection. An Insurance masher iB supposed to be ' the gay Lutherian,' as Mrs Malaprop would say.

— That the Auckland larrikins annexed enough hot-cross buns from private dwellings early on Good Friday morning to fill a van. Some of them actually brought sacks to contain the spoil.

— That a Mr Cook, a New South Wales legislator, has just introduced into his Parliament a • Truck Bill,' whose object is to annihilate the infamous track system. Oh for a New Zealand Oook !

— That there is some V9ry warm talk amongst the members of the Harbour Board about the manner in which the goods wharfage accounts have been kept for years past. There are squalls coming.

— That the races run by Sequah's patients the other afternoon were very amusing. The great medicine man, his flowing' locks flying free, watched the fun with a seraphic smile on his faoe. It was certainly a grand ad. for him.

—That the Bill for the Protection of Infant Life — up to now practically inoperative — is to be put in operation shortly in a way that will make the baby-farmer shake in her shoes. Auckland ' farmers ' are requested to receive this intimation.

— That some of the Te Awamutu volunteers, attired in kharkee uniforms, made themselves very conspicuous with a party of women of the town at the trotting races last Saturday. So full of spirits when they are down for a holiday, you know.

— That the Rev. George Mac Murray, the unfortunate ohampion of the Bible in State Schools Association, is not entitled to be termed, here, Canon; a canonry being a dignity strictly local to the diocese in which the cathedral ohuroh to which the canonry relates is situate.

— That thirty cases, or thereabouts, of typhoid from Onehunga are now being treated in the Hospital. Fifty years ago people would have regarded this outbreak of disease in the little township as a ' visitation of (jtod.' We now call it by another name — negligence of man and of woman, especially woman.

— That a local temperance society is employing the camera as an aid to making converts to Blue Ribbonism. They ' kodak ' the imbiber as he is returning home after a gay time with the boys. The ' picture *is shown the subject thereof next day. It generally represents him affeotionately embracing a lamp-post.

— That the suggestion thrown out by a Herald correspondent the other day, that a flag notifying the signalling of the 'Frisco mail should float from the top of the Victoria Arcade is a very good one. At present it is necessary to bother the telephone clerks or go to the wharf in order to ascertain whether the mail boat is signalled or not.