Things the Observer Would Like To Know

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1179, 3 August 1901, Page 20

Things the Observer Would Like To Know

— If the dust has not been fairly well laid thin week ? — Have yon seen Iredale - minns bia beard and moustache 1 — What the Government think of the Milling Trußt, and how they intend to deal with it 7 —Whether, if the Referendum Bill is passed, there will be any use fox the Legislative Council 7 —Who is at the bottom of that aotion against King Mahotu for the expenses of the Maoris in Wellington last session 7 — If Premier Seddon ever had a rougher time from presß and public than he got over that State Fire Insurance .Scheme ? — Whether there will not shortly be a big soandal about East Coast native lands that will be nuta to Governor O'Brien, of Fiji 7 — Whether, from what the Premier Bays, that dream of Mr Napier'B re the ten thousand tonners, Government owned, is a dream after all 7 — If tbe Rev. Mr Woolley, who is right here from tbe States to etudy our reforms, when he reads up the labour laws won't get a shock ? — If the Government arch and the magazine hnlk are not about the only things in Auckland that no one Beema to know what to do with ? — Whether, if Mr Hobbs is elected to the Board of Education, a committee of investigation will be set up to discover the origin of the Standard ? —If everyone who sees the Baden - Powell casket is not consumed with a desire to be a hero of some sort or other, and be as well remembered ? —If we're not getting on at a rapid rate towards sexual equality, and whether the two young misses who have just gone bung are not a recent instance 7 , —Whether, what with Mayoral retirements and Mayoral elections, and eleotric tram and other functions, the City Fathers are not having a ' fizzy ' time 7 — If Sir Joseph Ward is not having quite a monopoly of banquets, addreasea and ovations lately, and whether ' Diok ' wants to know where be cornea in ? — Whether Chairman Collins, in hunting up a room for those five thousand carters, did not think it a pity that we are not all built on the streak prinoiple ? — Whether, with the big loan proposal, electric trams, permanent water supply, and Town Hall undertaking, Mayor Eidd has not a big contract to Btart with 7 —If the story of the daylight thefts at Mount Boekill doesn't seem to argue that very few people in that oharmIng little Buburb are at home in the daytime 7 — If the fact that so many returned troopers are begging for billets 'w not a commentary upon a certain little promiße that was made by the Government ? — What the game was with the Fire Insurance Bill 7 Albo, whether any political individuals made money by bayIng insurance shares when the collapse happened? —If tbe belief of the Rev. H. Kelly, that ' infidels who are honest in belief, and act righteously, will be Bayed,' is shared in by the nations who would Christianise China by foroe of arms 7