Things the Observer would like Toknow

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 920, 29 August 1896, Page 16

Things the Observer would like Toknow

— Who is to be the new Mayor ? - Whether Boardman will fittingly replace Holland ? — Whether P. A. P. has made friends with the Star yet ? — What has become of George Fowlds's Rifle Club ? — Whether Cecil Rhodes will be the new Emperor of Matabeleland ? — Whether Alfred Kidd has still got his eye on the mayoralty ? — Why Captain Syras has so suddenly gone away to Tasmania ? — Whether Sir Robert Stout is not unduly given to ' hnffy ' fits in the House ? — Why the German warship Falke is going across from here to Sydney to be docked ? • . — Whether it is true that John Bell, our friend of the wharf, is going to ' stand for Parliament ? —When the Auckland Board of Education is going to pay the little bill it owes Sir Robert Stout ? - Whether it is true that the Waibi gold mine manager makes his employees work seven days in the week ? —What the Taranaki footballers think of the Auckland fish ? They were very shy of the bait last Sunday. — Whether a certain well-known doctor's wife is not still infatuated with a large red man about town ? — Who the paleface warriors in South Africa will pick a quarrel with next, now that the Matabele have gone under ? — Whether it is true that Edwin Mitchelson intends contesting the City seat, and whether he will lick Tommy Thonipson ? —Whether it is a fact that a certain small country school is temporarily closed because the teacher has been put in the lunatic asylum ? — Whether it is true that the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association in Auckland next year will be held on the Takapuna racecourse ? — Why the Rev. George Burgess has been elected chairman of the Conciliation and Arbitration Board ? Is it because he in an advanced Liberal ? — How much Richard Monk — our Bicbard — is going to get out of the Auckland Board or Education as expert adviser on timber and kauri bushes on the Board's endowments ? — Whether the Newmarket B oro ugh Council needs to meet at all 1 The only business at ihe last meeting of the Council was the reading of the minutes, which took exactly two minutes and three- quarters. — Whether it was through ' breaking the Sabbath ' by riding to church on Sunday that the Rev. W. Worboys was thrown arid nearly had his neck broken at Port Albert the other Sunday afternoon ? Here is a text ready to his hand.

Irishman, at telephone—' bind rue up tree bales of hay and wan bag of oats.' Feed Dealer— 'All right. Vvho for?' Irishman—' There now, don't get gay. For the harse, ay coorse.' The Maritana plain and fancy dress ball which eventnates in the Choral Hall on Wednesday next, promises to be a great snccess from every point of view. The committee are working hard to ensure a record, and the music (six instruments) is in the hands of Mr A. Marriage. A special feature of the evening will be the grand march with limelight effects, under the management of Mr C. E Mackie. The decorations have been undertaken by Mr Lester, of the Rainbow Arcade, and will be a perfect fairyland of, Japanese design. The floor is beiDg prepared by an expert, and last, but not least, the supper is to receive special attention at the hands of Mr Phillip, the well-known caterer.