They Say

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 821, 22 September 1894, Page 6

They Say

" ,— That the devil never -wastes any ,time in trying to make a drunkard out of a stingy man. , - ••" — That local quacks will be ' dead off ' the use of tobacco for injections in view i of Beard's experience. " — That the local Tb.e.osdphists are bestirring themselves in view of the visit of Mrs Besant next month. — That an offer was received from England for the whole of the city of Auckland £11,900 loan at £1.03. As it is, half of the debentures went to England, and very few were taken up locally. — That anti-Chinese agitations in "Wellington are of little use unless the Wellingtohians discontinue their practice, of dealing at Chinese stores. ,If they did, one half of the Celestials would immediately be frozen out. —That James Beard held the late Judge Gillies's 'Bocklands' estate -on lease, ■with purchasing clause. He wastopay £4,000, being £1,000 at the end of a year and £3,000 ! gradually. He has not paid anything yet, and now the bargain will likely be * off.' Beard will.have ' rock lands ' enough at Mount Eden.

—That Auckland Rugby Union will " make a profit of close on £500 as the result of the season's work. '■ ' '. — That James Beard was at one time-in- the quack line at the Thames, after he came from Australia. - . —That Monday's and Tuesday's Australian steamers carried away hundreds of Maorilanders bound for Coolgardie. - , — ; That Thomas cats are worth a pound a piece at Coolgardie. "What are they ■wanted for?. Where ignorance is bliss, etc. — .That a property was sold in Pon- '"* souby the other day for scarcely more than one-half of what it cost 25 years ago. This is notagood sign. —That a sprightly youngster of - 91 summers— Dan Knight is his name—is .working away as a storeman and book-keeper at the Lyell goldfields. '■ — That the man who boasts that he works with his head instead of hands should remember that the woodpecker does the same, and is the biggest kind of a bore at that. — That it was a poor opening of the racing season at Ellerslie on Saturday. The totalisator takings were about £1,000 lower than usual. Is this a sign of the times ? —That the action, of Or. Farrell in insisting that machinery for the waterworks should be made here, if nossible, is one that, ought to be followed up in every town in the colony. — That there are some pretty old • boys ' in the football field just now. Wyburd, of the New South Wales team, owns up to 36 and Sangster, the crack Taranaki half-back, is the same age. — That kinoLwordsnever die. How bitterly does a man realise that truth when he sees all the kindest words he ever used in his life glaring at him from his published letters >■ in a breach of promise suit. , —That the Temuka Salvationists have issued a challenge to pray against time against any other Salvation corps in the colony. There will be no charge for admission to the contest— if it eventuates. —That there are more unlikely things in the world than that Mr TJiomtis Thompson will be called to the Upper House - and given the portfolio of Public Works; with ' control of the railways. It would be a popular appointment in the North. —That Mr J. L. Wilson has not really seceded from the Weslevan body. He lias only made assurance donblv sure for the next world by getting dipped by the Baptists, so that now he must be considered to have two - chances for salvation instead of one. —That the removal of the headquarters of the B.N.Z. to Wellington will result in 150 more clerks being added to the population of the Empire City. Happy Empire City ! The bank clerk is.welcome any where he goes. He is such a ' toney ' person as a rule. —That Minister of Labour Reeves is pretty smart in getting the cost of a section of the Ohristchurch unemployed made a charge upon the relief works in Auckland. But what do the working men. of Anckland who have not had, work for months think about it? - —That the Sketch (London) airs its knowledge of colonial affairs by stating that the present session of the N.Z. Parliament opened at Auckland. It doesn't know about the recent removal to the Cook Strait village, evidently, ■ '.;■■'/ — That the "Women's Rights movement in Auckland will lose the services of Mrs Kitson, that lady's husband having been removed to Wellington. But why should she -be. compelled to go 'whither he goeth.' Another injustice to the sex.. — That there is a' 'husband famine' in Melbourne, and that "'a great and evergrowing army of marriageable girls is drifting slowly but surely down the road that ends in the shelf.' How awful!. Surely it would pay Someone to send a shipload of New Zealand dudes to Melbourne ? We could spare them. — That the public subscription business is being done to the death. There is a limit even to the endurance of the average citizen whose purse is ever open, andthislimit 1 '" is surely reached when subscriptions are asked . from people feeling the pinch of bad times for • men in receipt of good salaries. . —That the three big steamers for Sydney this week were all compelled to shut out passengers. Looks like an exodus for Coolgardie. The clearing out of so many ought to relieve the congestion of the labour market, ■ but the worst of it is that most of those going are people with a little money. ' — That, there has been another squabble in the Auckland Hospital. This time between a section of the nurses and the doctors. " Auckland Hospital has now the worst, name of all the hospitals in- the colony for disagreements amongst the staff. Let us hope - the patients do not suffer. ~ ' ..