Things the Observer Would Like To Know

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1178, 27 July 1901, Page 20

Things the Observer Would Like To Know

— If the ladies are not catting some eztremely dignified figures ia crossing the Btreeta thia weather 1 — How Dr Alice Woodward got on with that post-mortem laat week, and whether it waa her first ? —If the Chinese Labonr and State Fire Insurance troubles are not playing ap with Mr Ewlngton'a ink and energy lately ? — Whether fifty - five petitions againßt the Shop and Offioes Bill within a few dayß of its circulation is not a tolerably good start ? —If Kruger's courtesy in sending a letter of condolence on the death of tbe Queen has been returned in hiß recent bereavement J — If Birkenhead's idea of running itß frait on co operative lines is coming to anything, or will it end in fizzle, like a former attempt ? — What possible chance this colony haa of. annexing Fiji when Australia Bupplies that colony with all her goods at a cheaper rate than we can ? —Whether, if Mr Witheford booms that North-Auckland settlement scheme, and brings it to a head, he will not deserve a triumphal arch when he come back ? — Whether the Scenery Conservationists, in aaying their progress for the year has not been aa great aB they could wish, are not, after all, pretty modest? —If the Governor, at the christening on Monday, did not give a pretty plain hint tbat a big share of the Island frnit tradewoold in future go to Wellington ? —Whether the Rev. Mr Slade, who has so much to say about Fiji this week, doesn't know too much about Fijian politics to be of much aae as a missionary ? —If that pleading little petition for more hot water for baths for the Hospital nurses doesn't seem to indioate that tbe nurses don't like it cold tbia weather ? — Why the Government, if they want to embark in fire insurance, cannot run it on the aame lines as their life insuranoe ? And, by the way, that is pretty muddled. — How the literary volunteers who have been writing oomplainta to the papers over their own names lately would feel if they were brought op for a breach of the regulations ? —Whether W. J. Napier, in telling the House that he knew of cases of exorbitant charges by lawyers, wasn't rather indiscreet? Telling tales oat of school I — The name of the returned trooper who passed out the flask of whisky to the players in the Giaf ton-Newton football match laat Satarday ? Didn't the players relish it ? —If the grafting of the Fire Brigade's Bill with the State Fire Insuranoe which means that the for mer is now an abortion, is not enoagh to make David Goldie weep ? — What the pnblic in general, and the buyers at auctions in particular, 7 think of Aaotioneer Bodle's interpretation of ' trotting ' as applied to aactioneers ? It was an awful pat away. — If Mr Ueslop, the Government candidate, who thought he was in for Patea, is not conjuring up an idea that next to the uncertainty of life is the uncer tainty of majorities of one ? ' You never, never know.' — If the tall, fair, and debonair Hansen is not keeping the suburban Councils pretty well posted in ihe faot that there is an Electric Tramway Company in existence, and tbat it ia prepared to act ap electric lighting also ? — Whether the Home journalists with the Duke are not displaying a stupid ignorance of the geography of Aackland in their accounts to the English papera t What price this :— ' Auckland ia situated - on the spacions Hauraki Gulf, in the Bay of Islands, in the extreme north of the North Island.'