Things the Observer Would Like

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 953, 3 April 1897, Page 10

Things the Observer Would Like

— Whether Dick Seddon will accept knighthood. — If the amorous young bicyclist is taking any more thrashings from angry barmaids. — When those measures of encouragement to the volunteers will be announced. — Whether Mary Steadman Aldis has really and truly gone to London. She never will be missed. What part, if any, Sir George Grey will take in the Diamond Celebration. He ought to figure in the New Zealand show. — How many co-respondents besides the amorous 'bus driver there will be in the society divorce case that is coming on in Auckland ? —If Mr Stichbury did not hit the right nail on the head when he. said the present state of Freeman's Bay was a dißgrace to Auckland. — What odds Ned Burgess will take now that he will succeed in bringing Captain Nearing to his knees and get that apology out of him. — Whether the square of asphalt laid down on the slope in front of the Post Office won't be productive of bnshels of accidents when it wears smooth. — If our scripbrokers have got a few trood things ready for the Earl of Kilmorey, who is travelling this way to collar some of our gold mines. — If we are to have a Queen's Diamond Celebration in Auckland. Trot out the tallow dips and let us illuminate the windows in good, old-fashioned Btyle. — Whether all Bemuera is not wondering why one man at least doesn't keep a better eye on his wife. However, she lias the dollars, and probably does as she likes. — Whether, in view of the good timeßthey are having while 'the wife iB away,' the husbands of some of the women of the National Council wouldn't like the Convention to meet oftener. —Whether Ben Tillett couldn't be prevailed upon to stay and give the Labour movement a lift. All our own Labour agitators have been provided with fat billets, and aren't working any more. — Whether the proposed expenditure of £25,000 for extension of the Gas Company's services is not significant. It looks as if the ' ring ' are going to keep the electric light out of Auckland for ever. —What has become of all those mining experts who were so much in evidence six or eight months ago, and each of whom represented millions of foreign capital? Also, where are those millions of foreign capital ? — Who is the gentleman of means, with high literary attainments, that a country correspondent says is engaged to a Katikati young lady? The description would just about fit our own Washington Irving ; but surely he has. not been a■wooing Bince the mining slump set in ?