Things.

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 814, 4 August 1894, Page 10

Things.

— Whether the Auckland Ladies' Political League is run by the National Ass. —Whether a medical man ought not to be well up in weights and measures. — And so Mr Towsey contemplates a trip to Australia in November. Cup month, eh? — Who buys the mounted police constables' venerable ' crocks ' ? Is there a horse ' expert ' in the f oorce ? — Whether the seventy bakers of Auckland who are petitioning Parliament on the bread question will get what they want. — Who is the former resident of Ponsonby for whose capture the New South Wales Government are offering a reward of £25. Gold robbery, they say. — The name of the eminent Colonial visitor to Honolulu whose incautious disclosure of Imperial intentions is believed to have led to the annexation of Necker Island by Hawaii. Let us see : Did Sir— we mean the Honourable William McCullough go Home by way of San Francisco ? — Who is to be the new Registrar for the Auckland University College? The College Council were loth to ' dock ' the late Dr. Kidd during his lifetime, but now that a new man is to be appointed they show a disposition to retrench. Anyhow, an intelligent youth could do all the work appertaining to the billet in about three afternoons a week.

— What chance .the Chinese have of success in their war against the Japs. ' — If ignorance is bliss, why do so many people complain of being miserable. — Whether it would matter much if the Charitable Aid Board dissolved itself. — What is the real cause of all the trouble.within the Literary Societies Union. — What is Gee's idea in going in for St. Paul's choir. Advertisement, eh? Gee is a very pushing young man. — Whether Minister McKenzie will really resign his seat in the Cabinet if his Land BiU does not get through safely. • — If the public officials who got a holiday on Wednesday last didn't bless the individual who invented Arbor Day. Just as if they wanted to plant little trees ! — Why the slander action, Beverley Pearson v. Thomas Ashton, was discontinued. The defendant was prepared with some very startling evidence, too. — Do the Bank of New Zealand people take credit in this balance-sheet for *1,800,000, being the equity of redemption on the £3,300,000, property transferred to the iistates Company ? — Why did the Portsea shares fall so suddenly in price when the manager's telegram came saying the new reef would give the splendid yield of twenty ounces of gold to the ton. In the face of this news, there were many sellers and few buyers. Why ? — If it is really true that ex-Coun-cillor ' Charlie ' Wright intends to contest the Ponsonby Ward seat with Councillor Swales at the approaching Borough election, ' Charlie ' and his little rail would afford a bit of diversion. —Whether Dr. Bakewell's bitterlysarcastic letter in Tuesday's Herald re 'duly qualified medical practitioners ' was not very much to the point. ' Quacks, 1 says the doctor, ' serve a most useful purpose. They serve to thin out the fools. — What Captain Jennings, of the Gothic, did to deserve a purse of 300 soys from passengers who went Home on the first trip of the steamer, and whether these presentations to well-paid skippers are not becoming a serious tax on the purse of the travelling public. •