They Say

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 857, 1 June 1895, Page 3

They Say

— That P. A. P. always carries sweets in his pocket for the girls. How nice ! — That the new steamers of the New Zealand Shipping Company will be called the ' Rakaia ' and ' Mataura.' — That the man who commits suicide for love perpetrates a slur ou all the women in the world except one. — That the shareholders of the Talisman have been taken in badly by the terms of the recent amalgamation.

— : That a certain Auckland business man boasts that he has made £13,000 out of mining speculations daring the last fifteen months.

—That it now transpires that the million and a half loan could not have been floated if the Hon. Mr Ward had not been in London.

— That if the charges made by the Medical Staff against the Hospital Board are welligrounded, the police should take immediate action.

— That one single additional vote on the Board of Education wonld bring about the payment of male and female pupil teachers alike.

— That Tom Morrin, James Macfariane, William McCuliough and a couple more speculators have a nice little thing in the ' gold ' line planted up Waiomo way.

—That Prohibitionist Crabbe is taking proceedings against a Danevirke publican for alleged slander. But is the Crabbe not slandering the publicans every night? J

— That doctors are getting so independent now that the sickness season is ' on,' that Lodge patients are grumbling. ' Dear me, how dare you call me for such a trivial case, eh ?'

— That Tom McE-wyn got some of the beef shaken off him going to Waihi. there is a ' shop ' in Hobson* 7 street which should be -under the watchful-'., eye of the police. "•'..•"•". - . " ' ■■'■■■ — That it would pay the country" ; now to dig the' Midland Railway up and throw it into the sea. ."'■■■ — That the rise in the price of wheat has already made a considerable difference to the farmers. —That Ara 348, 1.C., will wait a long while before it gets a better Master than Frank Whittaker has been. — That there is something in the proposed appointment of Lord Glasgow to the Governorship of New South Wales. — That an atrocious mining swindle was laid bare this week. Nothing will be said about the matter, ' by arrangement.' — That It. C. Greenwood has struck the Waibi reef on the Waihi racecouse. There's money in it. It beats Coolgardie. — That the two years' imprisonment to which Oscar Wilde has been sentenced ought to serve as a salutary warning to the British aristocracy. — Tnat Father Hackett is the idol of Paeroa. He is trying to get a few to leave off mining and try farming, as being healthier for the soul. — That the first question a young fellow asks nowadays before taking an engagement in the country is, • Have you got a football club there ?' —That the effort to shift the Shortland license to the contemplated new hotel at Grahamstown is going to be a tough job. Eh, Moses ? — That the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, N.Z.C., has now 102 lodges under its jurisdiction, and recognition from Great Britain cannot be much longer withheld. — That three fights a night is the average at Waihi. Old hands say it reminds them of the Californian diggings. Of course, there is no policeman at Waihi. — That a syndicate is being formed to buy up and re-form the Takapuna racecourse, making it second to . none in the colony. The A. R. C. will have to look out. — That nearly all the vegetables used in the hotels and boarding houses at . • Rotorua are grown in Auckland. The gentle Chow will no doubt take note of this. — That the worst thing about the new income tax schedules is that it will cost twice the amount of the tax to do the additional book-keeping necessary to fill them up correctly. — That the local Government proposals to be submitted nexc session will be a decided step in the direction of a return to provincialism. And a very good thing, too. — That Bishop Cowie had to ' bunk it ' with some of the worst spielers in Auckland on his trip to Paeroa last week. Travelling makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows. — That George Gilmer combined business with pleasure on the occasion of his recent trip to Sydney. He ' looked over ' the P. & O; liner Himalaya in the interests of the Northern Steamship Company. — That the saddest instance of misplaced confidence on record is that of a man who rescued another from a watery grave, only to find that instead of his long-lost brother it was a person to whom he owed a £5 note. — That the dissenting clergy are very angry at the remarks of the Bishop of Salisbury concerning their poverty and their commercial competition But the Rev. Mr Robertson needn't get luffledDo the Presbyterians not claim that theirs is not a dissenting Church ? — '1 hat we are to have another visit shortly from General Booth. Is the money bag getting low ? or is he com'ng out to take possession of that estate in the Northern Wairoa, so magnanimously offered to him by William Aitken. ' — That there is much curiosity in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart as to the rank of an officer from the leading shipping office in Wellington who lately cut a dash in those quarters and was thought from his manner to be at least the boss of one of the branches.