Things the OBSERVER To Know

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 861, 29 June 1895, Page 16

Things the OBSERVER To Know

— How that smart young Aucklander managed to keep his marriage with the Rotorua lady so quiet ? — If the Laishley letters concerning the Free Public Library are to be printed at the expense of the ratepayers?

— "Where there is a prouder man in Auckland than Frank Whittaker, with his Ara jewel and scarf pin ? He deserved them.

— When the Harbour Board are going to build the floating stage so as to enable the Ferry Company to run a cargo boat ?

— Who runs the Auckland Hospital? Is it Mr Garland, the doctors, or the C.A. Board. Most people think it is Mr Garland.

— How Premier Seddon felt when approached by Secretary Hoben, as representing athletic bodies?' It' was enough to frighten him.

— Why a certain Auckland moneylender did not take steps to have his revenge upon the lawyer who insulted him by refusing to pay more than 100 per shent for his client instead of 230 ?

— When the management of certain Coromandel mines is goin^ to pull down those boards, and break into the jeweller's shop hidden behind them ?

— Whether, if Captain Amodeo was pegged out and pumped dry, he would not yield a better knowledge of Coromandel and Kuaotunu mines than any other man on 'Change ?

— Who the gallant Ponsonby gentleman was who helped the fainting females through the windows of the five o'clock bus when it broke down ? Rather an engaging task, eh Sam ?

— Who the Auckland h&y of mature age is who is awaiting the passage of M.H.R^Collinß' little bill to equalise the divorce laws between man and woman. It was such a little thing, too.

— Whether Dr Laishley \yill succeed in getting Town Clerk Philips a trip to the South Sea Islands ? P. A. P. surely deserves one for his services in getting the Doctor's Library letters published.

— If it always takes three hours for a detective to receive information of a burglary after the affair has been reported at the Police Station. This occurred in reference to a Ponsouby case.

— Whether Montague wasn't sorry he made that slighting reference to John Fuller's songs at Gee's concert. It was a puppyism, and it deserved the snubbing it got from the audience.

— Whether the City Council are not dribbling a lot of money through a sieve in getting consulting engineers' reports on the water supply. Why not at on.cc get a report on which action might be taken '?

— Why the Reverend Da\ r is took an active part in canvassing amongst his parishioners at Northcote to have Teacher Grierson replaced by somebody else ? Haß there been a quarrel between the two, or is it that Mr Grierson is not a Sunday school teacher ?

— What did the Star mean when it said : ' Not the least of the offences of the "Women's Liberal League ?' What were the previous offences ? Was one of them the refusal to accept the Star's dictation in the matter of Mrs Thomas's nomination for the Board of Education ?

— The name of the prominent official who left his lodge (not Masonic) the other-night in rather a dazed condition to go to Mount Eden in a single buggy, and fell asleep, leaving the horse (a strange one to'him) to follow its nose, and found himself plonghing through Waikomiti in the morning.