THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXVIII, Issue 27, 21 March 1908, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—Why the Y.M.O.A. change their secretary so frequently ? Seems as if some Christian young men are hard to please. — Why somebody does not satisfy the covetous Spirit of the Rev. Slade by presenting him. with an up-to-date motor car ? — When the daily papers will learn that the Assyrians, as a nation, faded off the face of the earth a good many centuries ago ? — How Mr Justice Edwards would > perform if a lawyer threw in his face a charge of bias such as Judge Edger took from C. J. Parr like a lamb ? — What Leo Myers will remark when he arrives from Home next Sunday and finds a heap of ashes where his house used to be ? Ichabod ! — Whether Walter Bruce is a Deepsinker, and was responsible for that "purple patch" in th« " Herald " ? It beat " Mercutio " hollow. —What Arthur Rosser, J.P., thinks of his unblushing support of the Blackball miners, after Mr Justice Sim's decision that they were acting illegally ? — Why so many of our M.P.'s have been entertaining select parties at Waerenga lately ? # Does the Bragato brand of wine give inspiration for election speeches ? — Whether there -won't be some stirring times ahead when the Northcote Borough Council start to hold meetings ? Cambridge and Waihi will be nothing to it. — How C. H. Poole managed to control the acquired Yankee' twang, when elocuting to an audience of his own country-folk ? His brogue, at the best, requires a lot of coaxing. — Whether Canadian Commissioner Larke doesn't sometimes wish New Zealand had taken on somr> other description than Dominion ? It is so hard to keep the distinction clear. —Whether Peter Mackay, after that visit to Waerenga, is convinced that the Bragato brand beats the real Mackay ? Scotland for ever, so far as the " wee drappie ". is concerned. — Why Bill Mowbray is wearing such a disconsolate look lately ? Has it anything to do with an approaching matrimonial event ? "Oh. where are the boys of the Old Brigade ?" m — Why the Harbour Board don't give Engineer Hamer a • nice little trip Home to consult the Admiralty about a new dock ? He's underpaid and overworked, and could do with a holiday. — Whether the W.C.T.U. are goirg to nominate a lady candidate for the vacant seat on the City Coun,^cil ? They seem to have ptenty of "talent available, and the Council wants stirring up. — If- it is a fact that Lawyer Skerrett is contemplating a plunge into journalism Rotorua P There ought to be easier ways of getting into hot water at Rotorua than by - running a newspaper. —Why the report of the regatta at the Lake on Saturday was too lata .'. for the 8 - o'clock ; edition of the "Star,"- and what was .;*• the " mysterious agency " that changed : straw hat into a yacht- I ; ing capj three sizes too Bmall P Ask ; -Charlie Beresfprd, the Takaptma _