PARS ABOUT PEOPLE

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1196, 30 November 1901, Page 4

PARS ABOUT PEOPLE

JOSEPH E^ANICH, of Austrian nationality, who i« appealing to

the-^newsipapers to assist him in getting hi.s naturalisation papers, scores heavily agaitistrthe Govern Client by saying that it l<*oks to him a* if he will have to'Hv.e.iri^Nejiv iSealftml for twelve years befo*e"W is, allowed to vote, just a» the Boer* matte the British do *n. the Transvaal. It is stated by Frauich that he haw twice over complied \Vitli all the conditions necessary foH- naturalisation, the last time through a .solicitor, so an to avoid any mistakes, and yet he is not a Hritisli aubiect, Rut perhaps there is one little thing that accounts for it all. Franich make* it clear that he wants to vote- 1 That is just the trouble. In view of an Act that was passed against the Austrian^ or against any Aus trians who intended to come out here, jt is fair to assume that Joseph's vote, if he had one, would be east against the Uoverument. Therefore, Joseph is possibly not of the " right colour, "' and it might be *' Dick's" little way of keeping that vote back. There seems to be nothing for it 'but for the Austrian Joseph to be like the Joseph in the Bible— have a coat of moTe colours than one, and show the one that he knows will suit. Then he might get all the naturalisation he wants.

'--. Last- week a, 'new feuce wu« erected in irbnt oi; Iftsiiorf) Lenihan's Palace at Ponsonby. The tar which was used to stect> the rail-posts in remained in the road After the men had gone home. This happy conjunction of circumstances, acting on some fertile and mischievous brain, worked out thusly : (1) A fence ; (2) a pot of tar, therefore (3) a tarred fence. Putting this inspiration into execution, some miscreants—or only one — made a wide zig-zag of tar the whole length of the new corrugated iron, which has taken two men about a week to remove. The operation must have taken a considerable time — but, apparently, no police obstructed the even tem>r of their way, and somebody or other will have a nice little bill to pay forgetting the tar off.

In one of the more recent parties that went up to Kotorua to plant trees under Government patronage were Daley, ex-draper ; Johnstone, late of the Kanri Timber Company ; and Gorrie, who sold a horse that belonged to somebody else.

By what rules of grammar .some of the members of both the Upper and Lower Houses of our Parliament form their sentences, or what may be the etymological derivation of many of their words is a problem of such magnitude that it would baffle the greatest grammarians. Mr Pirani made recent allusion to the "dodgery" of the Premier, but had to withdraw, so he substituted the word " diekery." The nearest we can find in the official dictionary to this word is " dicker " — number of ten applied to hides or skins. Hence we infer that the hon. member for Palmerstou considers the Premier to have ten hides. Verily, Mr P. hath wit, but sometimes a reference library is needed to discover it — and sometimes not.