THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 41, 26 June 1909, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

— Who is the real top rooster in the Cabinet as temporarily constituted? 4 — City Engineer Bush's opinion o James Samuel Dickson's diplomatic powers? — When Henry Brett is going to start shaking things up on the Press Conference? — What in the authority for the statement that Sir Joseph Ward is riding for a fall ? — If Bishop Neligan's silence on the Primacy question is to be attributed to his native modesty? — When Tom Henderson is going to make an attempt to wrest Dick Arnst's laurels from him ? — Why C. H. Poole hasn't been asked by the papers for his impressions concerning the new Parliament? — How many membsrs of the present Harbour Board would be returned if their seats depended upon a popular vote? — Whether Albert Edward Glover has entered into competition with Colonel Patterson as an expert in oilnuts ? — If it is true that Sir Joseph Ward got the inspiration for his battleship offer from Mining Director David Ziman ? — If consolation presentations are not making it worth the while of some defeated ex-M.P.'s to be out of Parliament ? — If the big Webster land claims, if established, wouldn't make sundry mining and agricultural titles around Coromandel totter ? — If the statement that the timepiece presented to a retired Civil servant is geared to go for 400 days isn't a little steep ? — If there wouldn't be considerable profit to the State, after all, in exMinister Hogg's proposal for control of the paper currency ? — Why the Harbour Board doesn't . employ J. E. Taylor to act as its expert adviser on all matters? Does W. J. Napier object? — What Arthur Eosser exactly meant when he said that the Hon. James Carroll would be best suited to the social side of the Premiership ?, — If C. A. Cawkwell oughtn't to keep check minutes of his own for the Eemuera Road Board in future ? And he ought to be rather an expert in regard to minute- keeping. — Whether Engineer Hamer showed his Onehunga and Mangere visitors, as triumphs of ferro-concrete, the patchwork that is to be seen on the piles under the Railway Wharf ? — If it is true that John Fuller has applied to the Devonport Borough Council for a job as Borough RatCatcher, with a view to getting some more flesh-reducing exercise ? —In what way R. W. Macßride supposed that che Government could interfere to prevent his Maori vaudeville team from leaving the country ? Aren't the Maoris free agents, all same as pakebas ? — Whether the magnificent shopwalker at Smith and Caughey's has yet recovered from the insult offered : to him by the Maori wahine? And how the young ladies behind the counter admired his blush ? — Why the railway authorities didn't levy a charge of sixpence a head on the Johnnies who thronged the station to farewell the pantomime girls ? But, after all, it is possible that most of the said Johnnies couldn't . have raised the necessary sixpence,