Things the OBSERVER WORLD LIKE TO KNIW

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 947, 20 February 1897, Page 16

Things the OBSERVER WORLD LIKE TO KNIW

—How many times you said you were a bona-fide traveller last -Snnday. —What the butchers have done to the clerk of the weather to deserve a wet day for their picnic. ~ . — Who is the telegraph cadet who was sent to a mining town on ' relief ' duty, and, finding the place rather too slow, took suddenly and alarmingly ill, and was magically restored to perfect health the day. after he got back to his accustomed haunts. * — What Hunter's Band have done to deserve the announcement in the evening paper, anent. the. fishing excursion to Waiheke, that ' Hunter's Band will be on the steamer, and dinner will be provided, ashore ?' We are willing to lay long odds that Hunter's Band was on the job when the dinner bell rang.

— Whether something cannot be done tc atop the broachiDg of cargo on the. wharf. — Who is the good young man from the pions grocery who levanted the other day. — Whether Lieutenant Jack Hume — the one that wears the bracelet — is to be made Commander of the Forts. If a well known sharebroker will not get himself into trouble sooner or later over his questionable ' over selling ' tactics. If Dr ' Charlie ' Haines intends coming back. to Auckland, or whether he will bay a London practice, as is reported. — What has become of the Choral Society balance sheets ? The Brett-Edmis-ton party are dodging the question all right. — Who invited an elderly M.L.C. and some juvenile belongings to the journalists' picnic last Saturday ? None of those on board seemed to know. — How Skip Kingswell felt when, in the Champion Rink match. Laxon, of Newmarket, put down his crack Auckland rink — on their own green, too. — Why the directors of the Hauraki North are advertising for a new mine manager. Do they want one who will ' swallow ' that stone crusher ? — If you have paid your subscription to the Observer, and secured your tickets for the annual gift distribution next week. Don't be too late. — Whether Mr Farrell is not right in his contention that the competition for the head mastership of Wellesley street school should be as open as possible. Whether the Polo Club Ball tickets are to be 10/- for men and 7/6 for ladies, as reported, and if this is not rather 'steep' for a society dance these hard times. — How the Herald managed to dis* cover that Major Durham is the father o* volunteering? We always thought that Major Derrom was. But such is fame. If Councillor Sticbbury will be betrayed into doing a kindly turn for Mayor Boardman again. It was too rough after Stichbury had offered himself up as a sacrifice. — Whether Mr Dobie will obey the mandate of the Railway Department, and remove himself South, leaviog his splendid orangery at Whangarei to look after itself ? — If it is not a fact that the City Council delegates to the Harbour Board are illegally elected. The voting ought to have been open, according to the Act, and it was by ballot. — What John Wesley would say could he return to life and appear at Pittstreet on Sunday mornings, and witness young ladies leaving church mounting their bicycles and racing home to dinner two abreast. Whether James Dunning's pretensions to a seat on the Harbour Board will be gratified. Also, if it is really a fact that a monument is to be erected on the Beach Road, to immortalise Oliver Mays' efforts on behalf of the water supply. — Why our Presbyterian friends, who are so much concerned on the subject of Sabbath observance, don't advocate compulsory church attendance? It wonldn't be more arbitrary than some of the other compulsory laws passed by this Government. — Whether Captain Headwind is making a dead set against the Wednesday half -holiday in Auckland ? At any rate the rain comes punctually to hand every Wednesday morning, and despair invades the hearts of the drapers' and grocers' assistants. It was the butchers' knock out this week. — If it was the journalistic gingerale that inspired Mr Cooper, editor of the Scotsman, to declare at the harbour excursion that in all his travels over the world he had seen nothing more beautiful than the varied landscapes he had witnessed on the trip round Rangitoto and up the Channel.