They Say.

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 19 September 1896, Page 7

They Say.

— That they're even hunting for gold away at the North Cape now. — That the city coronor prays, ' Give me this Monday my weekly drowned sailor.' — That a sensational divorce case, arising out of alleged misconduct at Waitotara, is on the tapis. —That Anciiland is the ' sweating den 'of New Zealand. So Millar, M.H.R. for Port Chalmers, says.

— That the more prominent political women are in strong demand just now amongst the candidates for Parliamentary seats — That our Association footballers differ from the Rugbyites in this respect, that they play football while the other fellows ' skite ' about it. — That friend Isitt didn't find the Prohibitionist cause so strong in Auckland as it is in Christchnrch. But he has great hopes of it. ; — That at the present rate of the craze the man, woman, or boy who has not learnt or tried to learn to ride a ' bike ' will soon become an object of curiosity. —That 'Trilby' and the 'New Woman ' were very unceremoniously treated by the flour bag Maoris at the North Shore costume football match. — That at Ashburion recently a man was fined £5 for taking a tractionengine across the traffic-bridge without a permit. He elected to 'take it out,' but after three days in gaol he cried : ' Hold, enough !' They wouldn't let him Bmoke, and he couldn't stand that !

— That 1897 promises to be a prosperous year in New Zealand. — That a petition for the release of Oscar "Wilde is being largely signed in London. — That the Australian Eleven have done better financially than any other team which has visited England. — That the Government wants additional representation on the directorate of the Bank of New Zealand. Who is this billet for ? — That George Musgrove, of the firm of Williamson and Musgrove, is having a theatre built in London opposite to the Garrick Theatre. — That the referee at the comic football match at North Shore on Saturday started a new fashion by bringing his gun with him. He was afraid of the Orakei heavy weights. — That startling revelations may shortly be expected in connection with one of our girls' secondary schools, in which more than one male teacher and not a few pupils are involved. — That it is time that the proposal for a Mining Exhibition in Auckland began to assume definite shape. The Mayor ought to signalise his retirement from office by an initiative move. — That specimens that are worth stealing ought to be placed in the bank for safe keeping. ' Welcome finds such as the one at Coromandel this week don't happen every day. — That Stipendiary Magistrate Martin, who has been appointed to the Public Trusteeship, has been a white-haired boy with the Government ever since it took office. — That the South Australian Government have decided that schoolbooks shall be furnished free of charge to the children attending the State schools, at a cost of £4,000. —That the member for New Plymouth now signs himself 'E. Mttcalf Smith, Metallurgical Engineer, and Patentee of a new and improved process for manufacturing Slag Fertilisers.' — That when the San Francisco mail boat steamed up the harbour last Friday she had hanging over her side a wellfilled sack labelled ' British capital.' Also, the steamer had a decided list to that side. — That the Women's Liberal League is to consider a paper on ' Love, Courtship and Marriage,' with the male creature specially invited We thought politics would prove a trifle dry for ye ladies. — That the only effectual remonstrance with the Sultan of Turkey concerning his treatment of the Armenians was the one from the Political Women of Auckland. The Sultan had heard of Mrs ifates, and trembled. — That according to the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, one London cigarette maker turns out two millions of cigarettes a day. Also, that the London Lancet considers the cigaiette 'the worst possible form of using tobacco.' — Tnat the cancer which caused the death of Moss Levy was contracted through smoking cigarettes. But people who sever smoked a cigarette die of cancer every week in the year. — That the Sultan of Turkey has got ' suicidal mania,' caused through spinal complaint. That's up-to-date, anyhow We'll fight shy of the next man who tells us he's got spinal complaint ! —That L. M. Isitt says churches should ' spurn with horror ' the offerings in money of publicans, brewers, and other spirituous sinners. Bnt the churches aren't built that way. They'd take a fiver from Satan himself ' for a sacred object.' — That a newly-elected councillor, fresh from the declaration of the poll last Thursday, made his way straight to the City Council meeting room and took one of the vacant seats. He was visibly chagrined when the news waa broken to him that he was a fortnight too previous. — That Premier Reid's infantile love of sweets wrecked a debate recently in New South Wales Assembly. The sugar question was on ihe board, and the speaker was illustrating his remarks with a sample of beet sugar in a bag. Reid promptly ate the sample, and the orator broke down for want or it. — That the Ponsonby school committee are knocking practical science out of the syllabus for girls in the upper standards, and that instead of stuffing them with problems in ohms and volts, atomic weight, the working of pulleys, levers, etc., they are going to hire a gas stove, lay in a stock of flour, suet, and things, and teach their girls domestic economy on the moat up-to-date principles.