They Say

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 924, 26 September 1896, Page 7

They Say

— That "the cry of the Auckland yonth is : 'A bike ! A bike 1 My kingdom for a bike !' — That tbe Honorable the Minister of Lands will give Hutch inson ' a Binack over the head yet.' - That seveial Southern lawyers are thinking of coming np Auckland way because of the golden bait. — That the that the New Zealand Rugby Union suffers loss to the extent of £120 on the tour of the Queenslanders. — That one or two of the Auckland advanced women are looking out for prospective billets as inspectors of public morals. - Thnt Davy Jones' locker has received the remains of the crew of the little pearling ketch White "Wings, built at the Kaipara. She sailed for Thursday Island two years ago and she has not reached there yet.

— That one of the Ovide Musin fiddling solos lasted just 85 ruinates the other evening. —That E. M. Smith will be a fool to W. G. Garrard when the Anckland boys get the honest dog-catcher on the election stamp. . — That the police have got a ' cine ' to those Welcome Find gold specimens They hove gone to London to float someone's ' good thing I' — That the Hon. J. McKenzie must have been a sight for the gods in the lobby the other day when he stripped off his cost to wallop Hutchinson. - That the principal functions of the Mayor of a Colonial city are to open poultry shows ahd welcome back teams of yelling footballers. — That John Bull is having a merry time hunting ' fnzzy-wuzzy ' njggers in the Soudan just now. Thermometer seven hundred in the shade. — That the Admiral thinks New Zealand is getting too much of the Orlando and the rest of the fleet lately, and he is going to sit down in Sydney for a few months and see how we like it ! — That a qertain young officer, in a local volunteer company frequently has important business at Rotorua whenever the monthly inspection-parade date approaches.

— That the Thames mud sticketh closer than a brother jnst now. -That the Great Barrier silver ,and gold mines are going Co make a big splash jet. — That John Bell has got even with all the wharf police at last. They can't ~ shift him now. — That falsehood cleans his nails, and is then called politeness. — That Lands McKenzie badly wanted someone to • hold him back ' in the lobby the other day. — That the woman with a past is generally a woman with a good many presents. — That Bishop Cowie now has two sons in the Auckland clerical rankß, both bishops in embryo. — That goldfields speculators are anxiously looking forward to the result of the Aitken freehold test case. — That a big bicycle girl was seen teaching a boy to ride in Ponsonby Road ths other evening. Taming the tables ! — That Ovide Musin concerts were wretchedly attended by the Aucklanders. A prize dead pig or a merry-go round draws better. — That getting the hair cut is said to be a cure for nervous headache. "What use is there in throwing thiß information at a bald-headed man ? | — That riches are the developing ptomaines of dying empires. — That the fire of all his Gaelic forefathers blazed in John Mackenzie's eyes as he danced ronnd M.H.R. Hutchinson in the lobby the other day. — That the Auckland Navy League solemnly proposes a procession of yachts in celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. — That the Government have gravely accepted a tender to run Tenetahi's pigs off the Little Barrier. Another job hanging ont for the Hinemoa ! — That a youthful scion of a house • builded upon Beer is mnch infatuated with a leading lady of a theatrical company at present in Auckland. — That two or three members of the present City Council are very sanve and obliging just now. Is it because of the coming general elections ? — That Ovide Musin's name is variously mispronounced ' Musing,' ' Moozin,' 'Moosing," ' Moosang,' and ' Musine,' by Anciland concert-goers. — That Lord Brassey is going to have his colours lowered at Melbourne by the new yacht which Bailey Bros, are building for a St. Kilda enthusiast. — That a leading Christchurch Pronibitionisc has been guilty of the grossest immorality, and that to enable him to avoid the consequences of his wickedness, his friends have had to smuggle him away. — That it must be pleasant to sojourn in a country which is threatened with a visit from the Ozar. In Scotland they stop the railway traffic, and in France they ' chuck out ' all unregistered foreigners. —That the Turkish method of 'deporting' Armenians is delightfully simple. They just take the Armenians out to sea and drop 'em overboard. Now we think of it, there are several people in Auckland we'd like to deporc. — That 'Te Uira,' which means, being interpreted. ' The Lightening,' is to be the name of Bailey Bros 1 new five-rater yacht for Melbourne. If rfie sails up to her name she may beat the Dingadee, or even the "Waiotahi. — That the spectators who went to the Takapuna-Coromandel football match last Saturday in expectation of the advertised Orakei ' war- dance ' were grievously disappointed. The corroboree (which would have been very tame, anyhow), did not come off. — That Rontgen rays have been put to a new use at the Ballarat School of Mines, where they have been applied to chunks of quartz. The stone is transparent and the metal opaque, so that an approximate estimate of true value can be obtained. — That considerable dissatisfaction is felt that the post of Assistant Librarian at the Public Library, rendered vacant by Miss Walker's resignation at the beginning of the year, has not up till the present been filled by a public appointment. And several would-be applicants for the position have mildly hinted that the reason is that some one in executive authority has a nice little dark-lantern job on hand with regard to it.