Things the Observer WOULD LIKE Toknow

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 828, 6 October 1894, Page 10

Things the Observer WOULD LIKE Toknow

— Whether Johnny McLachlan has planted those kumeras ? —What standard Mr Bush, R.M., judges immoral literature by ? — If the Honourable William Mac. is not coming up to welcome Annie Besant? — If Mrs Besant will bring any real live Mahatmas with her to Auckland ? —Whether W. P. Beeves' colleagues would not be heartily glad to see him on his way to England. — Is it true that James Beard holds free psychometric consultations with the prisoners at Eden Retreat. — What kind of a reception those gentlemanly Sydney footballers got on their return to' the other side ?' — Whether the corporation laborers were asked to contribute to the ' P.A.P.' purse of sovereigns, and if so, who asked them to do so? — Who it is that is so anxious to have the street lamps kept alight till dawn ? We thought there were no festive councillors left. — What became of the hood that one of the athletic (Wellington) footballers lost while he was 'on the mash ' at the Melrose social ? — What Eden George has come back to Auckland for ? He says it is to shake up his opal enlargement business, We thought Fred. Edwards was doing that vc-ry effectively for him. — Why the Auckland people don't call an indignation meeting and protest against any further delay in the construction of the railway between Auckland and Wellington? — Whether the Auckland members think the trumpery bit of ' talkee-talkee ' on the North Island .Railway question on Tuesday will satisfy their constituents and atone for a session of sleepy inactivity ? — If it is really a fact that Mr Bush, K.M., adjourned an important licensing case the other day, and cleared the court until a presentation had been made to an official ? Of course, the official couldn't wait. — Who was the citizen, who being asked to sign the National Association petition against the Government policy, retorted: ♦Why do you continually pester me? I've signed the blessed thing six times already. Ask someone else ?' — If it is true that the cadgers for the Haultain testimonial sent a subscription list to the Telegraph office with a request that the officials there should subscribe, and that Mr Furby sent it back instantly ? The police did not escape so easily. — Had Hugh Mcllhone anything to do with the disappearance of Charles Cooper, charged with a breach of the Licensing Act at the City Hotel ? Cooper is supposed to have left the colony, but the odds are fairly good that he will return now that the charge has been withdrawn. — The name of the Auckland clairvoyant who, given a bit of Dunn's reef quartz, Coolgardie, declared after making a trance-ex-amination that the stone was from one of the richest reefs the world had ever known, and then went on to give an accurate description of the town of Coolgardie, although quite unaware from whence the ' specimen ' he had examined came from .

Harbour Board invites tenders tor repairs at Auckland Dock Head. It is notified in another column that copies of the petition to the Legislative Council against further borrowing lie for signature at the N. A. rooms, Queenstreet, Perhaps it is not necessary for us to tell our readers that Mr S. E. Hughes has removed his place of business to lower Queen-street. Wherever Sir Hughes is, there he will make his presence felt. But, at all events, Mr Hughes has removed. The exigencies of his business demanded larger and more central premises, and consequently to larger and more central premises Mr Hughes has gone. If you wish to buy a house, to sell a house, to arrange a mortgage, to invest capital, or to do one of the hundred and one things that a smart estate and commission agent can do for you, there is no man who will serve your purpose better and with a more faithful regard for your interests than Mr S. ±1. Hughes.

No. 12— MR D. PINKERTON, CONSIDERED TO BE THE COMING MINISTER FOR LABOUR.