Things the Observer WOULD LIKE TO kNOW

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 925, 3 October 1896, Page 20

Things the Observer WOULD LIKE TO kNOW

— Why W. J. Courtney doesn't stand for the Mayoralty ? — Whether G. M. Keed really thinks he cao dust Frank Lawry from the Parnell Beat ? — Whether the single-tax load •will not be too heavy a burden for George Fowlds to carry, to the poll. — Whether the Auckland. Builder's Association are going to ' sit ' on the bricklayers who asked for an increase of screw. — Whether Colonel Goring is afraid that Rifle Clubs, if established in Auckland, would knock volunteering on the head ? — Whether Siugle - taxer Withy believes he can beguile the Parnell electors into returning him at next elections ? — Whether we are going to get French capital for our goldfields as the result of Count D'Abban's visit to the Thames district. — Whether Auckland is really prosperous whea there are 215 applications for a couple of paltry storekeepers' billets under the Harbour Board ? — Whether it is true that ]i)redger No. 121 nearly foundered in rough weather recently while taking a big load of silt out to sea from Auckland Harbour. — "VVhy our own W. G. Garrard wants to abolish Parliament altogether when at the same time he is a candidate for a seat in the Lower House ".' — Whether there is not a good cuance for an enterprising pirate of the Pacific in that half-million of gold coin on board the mail steamer Monowai ".' — Whether it is true, as alleged at the last Harbour Board meeting, that Mr W J. Napier wanted to establish a coffee palace on the ferry wharf at Devonport ? —Whether it is a fact, as Harbour Board members complain, that oyster boys and 'Arriets of low degree frequent the North Shore ferry waiting rooms too much V — Why George Powlds ' rang in ' that little shop in Victoria-street hi hiti City Hall speech ? Was it to show that even he, the great George, was 'amble once . — How much the Harbour Board paid for cab fares last Friday night, in ( connection with the Pilot service, and how long the present neglectful system is to be continued? — Whether it is true that a certain belligerent Hibernian policeman in the city threatened to strike with 'me baton ' a resident who had the temerity to offer the little man a lolly the other night. — Why the Governor is talking of , paying another visit to the Urewera district before going to England. Is it to collect some more greenstones t/ratin, or to get the ' ancient Maori ' relics he missed lust trip ? — Whether if; is correct that Dr Bakewell felt so unwell and dizzy after three day's total abstinence lately, that he hid, as he says, to resort to a ' wee drappie ' for fear of being taken for a drunk- and run — Whether the Auckland New. Woman could not take a lesson from her dusky sisters in Aitutaki, in the Cook group, where the darktown ladies seize all the liqaor which come ashore from vessels, so that the Old Man won't get drunk ? — Whether Chairman W. H. Smith and George Fowlds were not nicely floored at the latter' s meeting in the City Hall the other night, when an elector asked if the candidate would be in favour of a Bill to prevent shopkeepers. tempting thieves, by ranging goods .outside their, shop doors ?