Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 912, 20 June 1896, Page 10

Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

— If that account for printing the Laishley autobiography has been paid yet. — Whether Mr W. J. Napier has got that appointment of Attorney General yet ? — What has become of the tobacco robbers ? Has MeDermott's burglar alarm pat them to flight"? — If it is true that Adam Cairns is to be our next Mayor ? He would make a fine-looking one, anyhow. — Whether The O'Donoghue's star will still be in the ascendent after the Ponsonby school committee election. — Whether truth will not be stranger than fiction when the new Bank Investigation Commission makes its report. — Who was' responsible for the shady little boom in Welcome Finds? Somebody will be in trouble if he doesn't nrin'd. —What the effect of the Ward trouble will be upon the Ministry. It cannot, at all events, convert Liberals into Tories. — Whether the Loan and Mercantile Agency would not do well if it went into the pawnbroking and second-hand furniture business ? — Whether the Colonial Bank and the Bank of New Zealand are the only financial institutions whose affairs ought to be investigated now. Whether there has not been great ' jubilation in the National Ass's quarters since the Ward troubles began. ' I told you so, d'ye see.' — What, will the Freeman's Bay j recreation ground be worth if the Harbour j Board continues to deposit silt on the out side of it, as the Board is now taking power to do. — Who will be the new Colonial Treasurer? Premier Seddon is said to be equal to it. But what a show there would hnve been for George Hutchison now if he had only been good. —Whether the Hon. W. P. Reeves will not be jubilant just now that he is out of the Ministerial troubles and safe in a snug and well-paid berth in London, serving his apprenticeship for knighthood. — Whether the accident at the ' Devonport ferry tee was not another strong j argument for a floating stage ? If there should be loss of life one of these days, the Harbour Board will be very culpable. — If the object of the Bank inquiry | proposed by Seddon is not really intended to throw daylight on -the. connection between other banks and Ministers prior to the Ward affair ? Some awkward disclosures may be- expected before the elections. —Whether our own J. H. Witheford is coming back to Auckland ever ? They say that he has taken a splendid house in London in view of a visit from his daughters. Also, that a Kirkenhead young man who didn't care a ' button ' about the shabby method he adopted of breaking off his engagement, is sorry now that he didn't wait a little longer, seeing that ' pa in-law ' had made a fortune.