THINGS THE OBSERVE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1180, 10 August 1901, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

' -iHofo- many'p^liUle«'' : arfel)e'itt{>; WeW-'i-J sured as mementos of the turning of the first electric tramway stones ? —If Mr George Fowlds, the obliging George, is not returning to Wellington a sadder but wiser man ? —■If the Premier's warning to the unionists is not an indication that a rest from labour legislation is at hand ? — If bringing Admiralty House out of the brick area line is not the first jump into "extras?" Where will it l end ? —How is it that while the returned troopers are begging for billet*, their"; officers are having them thrust at - them '! ■■•-,' — If it is true that Pousonby's Fire Brigade foreman is utilised to sweep streets three miles away from, the station ;. — Whether the Sailors' Home would not be the better oft" if the Church, as a controlling power at any rate, was out of it ? — What odds, judging by the Coal Commission report, that a state coal mine is not a reality in less thau twelve months ? — If, in the face of all thesurplusses, the Premiers confession in regard to tlie finance is not unequalled in the colony's history ? — What extraordinary excitement last Monday night caused the A.R, C. secretary to blossom out in a new tile in the morning, smiling and gay ? -Whether the crushing blow to the " unimproved " faddists will result in the dropping of the Bill to make rating on the unimproved values compulsory ? -Whether Mr Percy Smith, who is going to the Savage Islands to work ' up annexation, is likely also to work up an orange trade in the interests of Wellington ? —If, judging from recent correspondence, J. 11. Upton did not put his foot in it when he told a gas meeting that gas was ten times cheaper than. electric light ? —If the vote on unimproved values would not have been six to one against it if the present system advocates had worked half as hard as the single taxers? — If the Harbour Board's yacht, r Kuaka, felt cold on Monday night last that she should hug the Kohiniarama rocks so closely ? Was there not oil enough ? —If the carter who deposed that he had to keep a wife and ten children on 37s a week is not foolish in his generation, and whether it is not time he was putting some of those ten out to work? — What little move is on between a section of the Hospital Board and a certain medico regarding the Maternity Ward appointment, and what the ' friend of the nurses ' had to say about it? — If remark* such as were dealt out . to a coloured member of a Government steamer's crew, from the wharf, by one of the officers, were part of his nautical training? Greater New Zealand, eh ? — If a sly, knowing wink did not go all arountt the carters when the question, " Don't married men want to see their girls, too ?' was put by Rev. Collins, and whether his ..reverence didn't wink too ?

There is no occasion or justification for so much publicity in connection with the granting of Old Age Pensions.. — Sydney Sunday Times. '' -