Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1061, 29 April 1899, Page 9

Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TOKNOW

—What" about the Lake ' overnight affair? ■ ' —If it is not like old times to see Jesse Odium back at his , post' again ? —Whether McDermott's pans will pan out better than Gorrie'a ? — Why the Herald didn't come out as champion of the Austrians a little sooner ? — Why Sydney got too small for ' Bookie' Drake ? Perhaps, Auckland will be large enough for a long time. —How the Exhibition surplus is getting on? Also, how much of it has vanished since it was last heard of ? —How much the brewers are prepared to spend in Parnell at the next election, and whether their treasury would stand the' strain ? — If anyone is prepared to dispute 1 Frank Lawry'a monopoly of the opinion that there was no need for the Police Commission inquiry ? — If Richard Hobbs would not make a real nice equestrian statue mounted on that old bay mare he rides to town ? It certainly is not^built for speed. —Whether it would not pay some of our old topers to get a little ' typhoid' at the Auckland Hospital for their stomachs' sake ?• , Medical comforts' free, eh ? — Whether Henry will rest content with anything less than a slice out of the Exhibition surplus for his Choral Society ? And doesn't he wißh he may get it ? — What steps, if any, is D. B. McDonald taking to get up a farewell presentation and testimonial to Mining Expert Ingall ? Likewise, what form it would probably take? —Whether ' Hard Up,' the title of the discourse by the Eev. Joseph Parker on Sunday last, was meant as a hint for a rise in Joseph's screw, and whether the flock have so taken it ? —If Pastor Collins was not a little previous with his barracking for the Chairmanship of the Ponsonby School Committee ? No use counting your chickens before they're hatched. — Whether the Government members in this district don't still find it politic to make the name of Grey the keynote of their political addresses ? For an answer consult the speeches of Lawry and McGowan. — How Chairman Stichbury's pro Sosal to name three wards in the Chil ren's Hospital after himself and Messrs Bollard and Bruce strikes the average citizen? Also, whether Captain Bough's donation of £500 and the late Mr Arthur E. Wolfe's handsome bequest of £2300 don't entitle their names to be honoured first?