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Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 911, 13 June 1896, Page 23

The bicycle J. W. Parsons raced upon during the season jast closed, he took with him when he sailed for England. At Perth he met an admirer who purchased the machine for £45, or about doable its original cost.

A Presbyterian minister up country got a bit of a shock the other day while tying np for life a rather young and sheepish couple. He had just asked the callow yokel if he were willing to take the woman for his wedded wife, when, to the amazement of "everybody, the groom paused, scratched his head, and then stammered out, ' Oh, I suppose I'm willing if it comes to that, but I'd rather have her sister.' It was a caße Of ' must.'

The newest parlour game ia called the Game of Initiate, and now that the winter evenings are on, it is worth a trial of drawing room ' socials.' Here is the idea : — One person gives out his initials. Then all, provided with pencil and paper, are given a certain time, perhaps three minutes, in which to write a three word characterisation of this person, .the words beginning with the inititials in the order given. For instance, A £ C is described by one as ' a beneficent creatnre,' by another as ' awkward, bat coarteons,' by a third as ' always buying cheese,' and so on. At the end of the time allotted all the descriptions are read aloud, and the initials of the next person are used in the same way.

Those who require to use Spectacles will find a very large assortment to suit almost any sight at Miller's Fancy Repository, 110, Victoria-street. Prices to suit any pocket, viz., 6d, 9d 1/- and 1/6 per pair ; Real English Pebbles, 3/9 per pair. Coloured Spectacles for snn and dust, 6d and 1/- per pair, sent post free to any address in New Zealand. Anyone mentioning this paper when purchasing or sending will have a case valne for 6d presented to him. — Advt.