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Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 949, 6 March 1897, Page 24

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B. (Coromandel). — Agreed. More- personal gossip, please. Subscriber (HalcombeV — Shall be pleased to hear from you regularly. Pedlington.— You are right. In point of population Christchnrch, with suburbs, is the second city of New Zealand. Pick and Shovel (Waihi),— Well, we should say the boss mine is the Mount Morgan, Queensland. £300,000 paid in divs. last year, and £4,285,000 paid since its discovery. How is that for high ? New Woman. — The lady you speak of is a bit newer than you are ; that's all. The wearing of porcelain buttons by young ladies bearing miniature portraits of their sweethearts is the latest feminine ' notion ' in the land of wooden nutmegs. Pukekohe. — Your contribution about the tall, thin masher who induced the abbreviated belle to jilt the man of corn, and the female giantess who has a weakness for the midget, lacks one important essential— your name, in guarantee of good faith. Freckles (Wanganui). — Try watermelon juice Or, better still, get married. You won't have time then to remember you have freckles. At any rate, they will advertise to the Wanganui mashers the fact that you don't buy your complexion. Anxious Enquibeu (Stratford).— Sir Robert Stout hfs not yet notified us that he has joined the Salvation Army and means to quit politics for it. If he presided at a big Army gathering in Wellington on a recent Sunday, we presume he was asked to do so. It's a free country. Epsom.— lf we took up a contract for correcting the Herald's editorial grammar we should have room for nothing else. As the Herald insists upon a good 'organiser 1 being appointed headmaster of the Wellesley-street school, your suggestion of a drill sergeant just about nils the bill.