Things the Observer would Like To Know

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 924, 26 September 1896, Page 20

Things the Observer would Like To Know

— Whether peace has been restored in the Hospital ? — Whether Louis Chenais -will ever get a new trial ? — Whether the mining boom is not conducive to increased tippling ? — Whether the Banking Inquiry will be over before Judgment Day ? — When Parliament will cease from troubling and M.E.R 's be at rest. —What Ovide Musin really thinks of the Auckland ' music loving ' public ? — What the Richmond Road residents think about their new neighbours. — Whether Bishop Cowie's episcoSal rig is not just the very tiling for ieyclhig. — Whether Father Lenihan will give up his giddy bike now that he is a bishop. — Whether Board of Education Muir is going to stand for Manukau at next elections ? — Whether M.H.R. Hutehinson is taking boxing lessons preparatory to checking McKenzie again ? — Who is the Auckland lawyer that takes care of young ladies' cloaks for the moderate consideration of 10s fid ? — Whether ' our Tom ' Sullivan is going to try hia hand again at pulling for the World's Scnlling Championship ? — Whether Josiah Clifton Firth is seriously thinking of taking away our Haka Falls with him to Ammurika? — Whether twopence for tram fare will not be a penny too much in ten years' time, when the electric trams are running? — Whether Auckland cannot afford to raise a good deal more than the £200 needed for the Rifle Championshin Meeting? — Whether it is true that half-a-dozen young ladies in a city establishment are sending to London for the latest ' bikes ?' —Whether it is true, as a Sydney parson said lately, that instead of only ten commandments the teetotallers have ten thousand ? — Whether the newspaper war of the Revs. Beatty, Dewabury and Williams on the Prohibition question was not fun for the publicans and sinners ? — Whether the Auckland Navy League is not making itself ridiculous by wanting us to rise up and celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Good old Jingo ! — Whether Captain John- Fairchild will get a triumphal arch and a purse of sovereigns when he arrives at Wellington with the new Government ■ steamer, Tutanekai ? — Whether Monsignor Walter McDonald — Auckland's ' Father O'Flynn ' — is to be shifted into the city again. If so, his many friends will give him a hearty 'CeadMilleFailthe. 1 — Whether Dr. Bakewell is correct when he says that ' The vast majority of prohibitionists are either reclaimed drunkards or persons who have drnnkards in their familiss ?'