Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 910, 6 June 1896, Page 10

Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

— If the late rain did not affect the hurdles a little at the Takapuna races? They seemed to have shrank a bit.

— If it was not rough for the Pres byterian parson at the St. Andrew's squabble to call his brethern ' thin-nosed heretic-hunters '

— If Jimmy Reid is going to find time to get his hair cut while the present boom is on. It's a wonder he gets his meals at all.

How the Paeroa residents c: caped being struck blind when Jim Sha appeared in their midst with that peai coloured chapeau, so new and nice.

— If Edwin Edwards, the Prince of Paeroa, would not give some of the candidates a nasty shaking if he atood for the Bay of Plenty seat, next election ? And it's likely, too.

— Whether you have seen the splendid new Haake piano that is to be given away by the Observer proprietary with the first prize in our next gift distribution ?

— How Captain William Crush Daldy and the Rev. E. M. Cowie, of All Saints, felt when the Traffic Inspector took down their names and had them fined for driving fast round the corner.

— If the pipe smoked by Sam Macky is a heirloom 'Tis well bound with

rope, and coloured. Ac. old friend, eh, Sam? —If the back of the Domain pavilion is not becoming a favourite spooning ground for the Parnell elite. Anyhow it Beemsto afford plenty of amusement for the youthful hunters. —If it is true as a bell that the son of the father who has unlimited power at St. Andrew's Church, promised a certain. Cornstalk parson that the pater would see he got the call all right ? It turned out all wrong. Is this the thusness ? —Whether that attack of colic that prevented the Hon. John McKenzie from addressing the Liberals of Auckland was the result of some crafty National Association machination. Or had Hielan' John been too partial again to the pickleß over-, night ? —Where Constable Billy Kelly came in on the Waikomiti poisoning case ? Didn't he drum it into the D.'s ears for days, and work up the case, before they took action ? And again, where's Grace ? Are they both forgotten? Give credit where it is due, bo> s.

— Jf Ben Fuller was not playing it rather low down on the Leader of the Opposition and the National Ass. when he told the audience on Monday night week that Hawke's Bay is inhabited chiefly by Maoris. Also, whether it was one of Ben's little jokes to point out Government House, Wellington, as the Houses of Parliament.

— Whether the prompt closing of the brokers' offices in the Stock Exchange at the stroke of • five one afternoon last week had any connection with the fact that Factory Inspector Ferguson was just then taking a stroll through the Exchange ? Ferguson had just got a ' tip ' for a good thing, but the brokers were a bit too cute.