Things the Observer would like to know.

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1018, 2 July 1898, Page 11

Things the Observer would like to know.

—Why the younger Towsey doesn't get his hak cat. — Whethee Farmer Macrae is practising as a skin- grafter, also ? Why the wealthy lady is not more hasty about her South Sea Island trip ? — Is William" Courtney doing the double-shuffle on the tramway question ? —Why that second five stampers in the Puru- Consolidated battery is not 'jigging-' — What is this we .hear about the alliance between the 'Cardinal" and Bishop's Court ? — Whether the Charitable Aid Board will listen to that protest when Dr Macgregor comeß to Auckland ? —Why the Dilworth Trustees don't pay that annual bequest of £100 to the*' Kindergarten ? Wheels within wheels. —Whether Graves Aickin is to have a ' cut ' in that kinship presentation to the American Colonel, and, if not, why not? —Whether the Waihi, Silverton is paying its buggy hire now. "Twas a very bitter pill to awallow after going to court about it. —Whether there is any connection between the Auckland Gas Company and the Chambers electric lighting proposals ? — Whether it was too much compulsory arbitration or onW the commonplace influenza that ma&ti an invalid of Judge Edwards ? —Whether Lord Ranfurly is not in danger of getting the Orangeism knocked out of him before he gets back to the mother country ? —Whether any friction is occurring among the committees of the Auckland Exhibition .due to the strained relations with a prominent office-bearer ? —If Councillor Dunning, of the Devonport Borough Council, is anxious for another tilt at W. J. Napier, and if so, will the Council provide pistols ? —Whether interesting evidence, of which nothing has bo far been heard in the Court, is likely to be tendered in the defence of the Wanna natives now in gaol ? — For what reason is a member of the Permanent Force stationed on the top of Mount Victoria, taking a note. of the vessels arriving and departing from Auckland ? —Does the Rev. W. E. Lush tell, the truth when he says the world does not care about the virtue of purity in men, but it is exclusively the one virtue it asks for in women ? —If the diners at the Auckland Club have decided yet who is the premier dentist of Auckland ? Surely the gentleman who exhibited a ' full plate ' in full use settled the question. — Whether certain documeuts in the possession of a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be in evidence when the inquiry into Charitable Aid affairs in Auckland is held ? — Whether Inspector Hickson ought not to ask permission to withdraw his statement attributing the larrikinism and bad language at Newton to the would-be volunteer force ? — What steps are being taken to let the Australian people know about our approaching Exhibition. It is no use proparing a big show unless we invite the Australasian world at least to come and Bee it. When J. H. Witheford is going to get that knighthood ? If Her Majesty doesn't hurry up, our own Harbour Board will have to invest him with' the ■ order of the Calliope Dock, or create him Earl of Freeman's Bay. — If the Auckland members have sufficient nous to co-operate ia carrying out the wishes of the meeting recently called to. consider the North Island Trunk Bailway, or will they again allow themselves to be led by the nose oy the political railway rings of the South ?