Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1070, 1 July 1899, Page 9

Things the OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

— Who the Sunday-school teacher was who was in a ' tight ' place on Sunday night ?

— Whether Plumber Clark is taking any more financial agents aa tenants on the lease system ?

— If Arthur Myers is letting any swell hotels fox ' sheep farmers ' to ran ? Takapana has had its experience.

— If the Natives' Association will roll up in force at the New Zealand tennis benefit concert ? 'Tis blessed to forgive.

— If D. B. McDonald is shirking that little Talisman Extended duel? Surely the Colonel has not spirited him away ?

— Whether the Rev. Finlay Wilson wasn't simply immense in his new role of the 'Bashful Bachelor' at the nurses' concert ? ,

—If Frank Whittaker's little yarns at the Masonic banquet were personal ex* periences? He's a tough old hand, anyhow.

— What the Linda Weber has already coat Mr Ledingham, and what she is likely to cost him before he gets through with the present owners ?

— Who the anonymous letter writer la who has taken the trouble to write to South Africa to asperse the character of a jocal girl to her fiance ?

— Whether it is true that Richardson left by the Weatralia in ' consequence of the termination of his agreement 'with the Prohibition League ?

— When Jock McKenzie is coming back? King Dick seems to want something in the shape of a Scotch porous plaster to stiffen up his spinal column.

—If it is a call from Joe Chamberlain that is taking William Leys, to England? Well, he has the leysore time, and New Zealand is ao small for the originator of the Old Age Pension scheme.

—Why Johnny McLachlan is not taking any * tokens of esteem ' from, his employees on his retirement from business ? Is it because they are not giving any ?

— If the new flat • bottomed wooden steam tank being built for the Botorua Lake will ' fetch ' the British tourists? It wants ' popularity and civility ' as a lining, or it will bnst.

— Who the two parsons are who are alleged to figure in a published list at Home aB members of the ' Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament ? This mast surely be a printer's mistake.

— Whether the Hospital nuarses who knelt at the feet of Chairman Stitchbury at the Gostiey Home concert, and prayed to.be allowed to have a dance, didn't cut a fnnny figure, and if Stichbury has yet got over the thrill?,

—Who prepared the concoction of mustard, pepper, and vinegar and threw it at a woman last week ? It is a decided improvement on vitrol, bat one hardly likea to be annointed, even -with salad dressing, unexpectedly. .

—How it is that the Harbour Board has suddenly waked up and decided not to allow any more speechifying by irresponsible orators on the wharf, just after Richardson has left for Sydney ? Stable door and missing horse again, eh ?

—Whether it didn't give the patients at the Coatley Home concert 'a torn' when they heard the. strains of ' The Better Land,' seeing that they are clinging to earth as well as they can; unless their exit from the Hospital is going to be 1 accelerated '—that's the word I

We have received a copy of the fourth number of oar looal Anßtrian contemporary, the Bratska Slpga. The , paper has been enlarged to six pages, and ia nicely printed._ Besides the large amount of reading' matter devoted to the interests of its Dalmatian readers, there ia also a good proportion set apart for the entertainment of British readers, which of coarse 4a printed In English.