They say

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 42, 3 July 1909, Page 7

They say

That Caruso is to rest for six months. Here's a chance for our Abel Rowe to go Home and shine. — That Alec Alison is concocting a fish yarn that will knock those of the "Herald" and the " Star" Bky-high. —That Joe MacMahon is in town. It is understood that the object of his visit is to look for a reliable hair restorer. —That the last meeting of the City Council was decidedly more stormy than the daily papers would have people believe. —That the fortune- telling epidemic has broken out badly in the "Star" Office, but the palmistry of the exchequer remains normal.

— That the majority of the Waiheathena are feeling sorry now. It's a case of water, water everywhere, and not a drop to mix with it. —That Dominie D. D. Metge is still chuckling audibly over the way his prodigies of learning scored off Education BoardjChairman C. J. Parr. —That big William Hunter is the hardest worked man in town just now. Interviewing pugnacious unemployed and unemployables is a trying job. That Commodore Alec Alison is Retting tired of answering the "fool questions " of passengers as to how those Bheer legs are meant to work. That the trades unionists are quitt in accord with Mrs Emily Nicol's ides of a two o'clock day. Such a limita tion would suit them down to tht

ground. —That ex- Minister Hogg thinks of , forming a "cave" in the Liberal , ' Party, and hopes to get support from , ' some Auckland members. But who j can they be ? —That Journalist Farmer Whyte is - not quite certain which of his two " ventures of this week is the more * daring experiment — matrimony or his * change of vocation. That it is up to Mayor John Bo we to trot along and unveil that Seddon Memorial at the Royal Oak. At present it is like the hotel opposite - — a boarded-up monstrosity. That it wouldn't take much to rope Kobort Farrell into the Church of England just now, if only for the chance of wielding verbal shillelaghs ~ in the coming anti- ritualistic shindy. —That the latest test adopted by the police force to discover " drunks" is the simple sentence : " A Leith policeman possesses us." Try and say it quickly, and you will see the full force of the argument. —That Auckland society is not ex4. pecting to get more than a chastened form of enjoyment out of the winter - sojourn of vice-royalty in our midst. Government House doesn't run to very high jinks nowadays. — That if the Takapuna people were not models of patience and forbearance, there would have been an indignation meeting before now, to pour vials of wrath upon their County member and the road-lowering contractor. — That this is a fair sample of the startling piffle served up by the " Herald " : — " A man named Robinson was accidentally knocked down by a tramcar in Viotoria-street last evening, and on being picked up\>vas found to have sustained no, injuries." Venewble Grandma is a funny and

. —That tbe^-Willo^g^y-Hi^^tJ^^lV- 1 bytefy at the tkai&<?*?will infuttirt'bf ?%%m P^^n^^lhife^ Whifctaker* ij^dgi^^B^'th^'^file^W,^^ their rts^eptiye stiits,- lead ayoh#Keifg?|o^ career.-'- ' '''./"^ ,] \(^f' ''■?■?s logM —That Robert ;Nojioia ? B|';|lo :-MOOM Brigade oreiqrining a volmafceer cprptjj^^ of their own; ? -'The iregiineiitiftV "tao^i^^^. is. to be-: "There's Ham"' :: ' iy --y : 'M^m — That' the newspapers. - haVe •■dlfeW;|^ covered a new verb, '• to mntton^-j'v#^ bird." Probably "to aohnapper'Vand;^^ "to pheasant" will comenext. » — That a piquant school. Boa^aajk|i|^ from one of the goldfield towiw.i^fcS«t^|^j cause of a knitting of the brow|| ? 'tp"thi«i|^| members of the Education BoarcL -^^ssi —That the " Herald" proprietary^?^ are anxious- to see a Zoo started ' : 'Ui&:o;s Auckland. Wouldn't their own " Titvgf #l be a suitable beginning for .its aviary\?^|Hp — That Youlin Birch is wearing ajiifiS^ usually large-sized smile of satisfactipn^Kylj this week, and is planning an ode'en'-iVjfSs? titled "How I Koae in- My Prp;-^|§; fession." ' ' : ':^OM —That Manappr Marcus auiilw6vfl| benignly upon \JT> procession of pij^vf J|i tailed theatre-goers that marchej^pw! nightly into the circle of His Majeaty'a ; 5| this week. ■ i *■£:$£

— That Bishop Neligan hasn't "this * time the excuse that the Laymen's i League are not fulLy reported. Their mauifeaco is straigat-out hitting, and' ■> , aims direct at Bishopscourt. — That Mr Speaker Guinness has 1 cultivated a freezing glare with which * to transfix any Koto ruffian tormentors who venture to quiz him about his "jolly good row " prediction. —That Charles Grey, since his experience at the last City Council'meeting, has come to the conclusion that a Mayor's lot, like that of Gil* berts policeman, is not a happy one, — That the district dominies -are chuckling in their sleeves over the 1 " opportunity of holding their syllabus conference at a time when George s George's mesmeric influence is out of range. (

— That reading between the lines ■*&s% his Martin presentation speech, it : iaV;^ easy to see that Edwards, «K, ia ; rid%!T; admirer of the cast-iron rule whichrvvF; ends the career of a civil servant,; <■" however useful, at 65. V;.:': — That the Devonport people will;v;; welcome Paul Hansen to their midst^ ■ with open arms. Paul's advent 1;o a.' district generally brings a tram syatein , v ; ; in its train — witness both Epsom's and c ■ Takapuna's experience. ; ; 3 — That classic Cambridge has rn'Ot; 's? yet finished speculating as to what • might have happened last Sunday had^' ; Bistiop Lenihan been able to keep hie ; : appointment, and met face to f ace hi« episcopal brother Neligan. ; ' : —That Peter Virtue hail? !;.:/Mr^ Justice Edwards as a Daniel coaie N to..';;.' ; : ; judgment, and his paeans of praise to I • the jury that found hiß statementß; ", non-malicious are flowery <Bnoug¥"tor: :^ : be worth a musical setting. ". ■ c> — That what the unruly section of-/ the audience at the Choral Hall last /Friday night really wanted was ■*;':; rendition of "Stop Your tiekliiaj^^ Jock," by Peter Mackay. It Trftuld^f have livened things up a bit. /.' ■I'"^^^, —That "Tit" Pougltts's name did |r not appear in the list of Birthday; honours. Yet those Imperii|lißti^ speeches of his surely deßerverecOgni^;; tion. Is it possible that; the Homa; people don't take Sholto serioußly ? :^vj —That ' May of - (?e&r^e;^ayew^|Kl ; |, . his faithful councillors h^ftv^puroKMed ■ sea-boots and life-belts, in anticipktiqn; ; 1 of that expedition into darkest Grey, i Lynn.- They'd better take the naun^c cipal whisky bo ttle along with ''too. ' " ■■' :: . .;■ , . rr /■ ; :^v:;?fep t • :■' ■■ ■ ■ ■ -V-'. 7 ,: .■''■' ' ?^L- : , •■■' •.••''V-'. .■■'.i !-' r :Sf;f' • , — That the inhabitants of Taar^gp^ i ..consider that they are not gettinjiJtlte;) S. entertainment out of- R. W. ; 'rE(y<»;-^ r, S.M., to which they thought, by prt- ; ; ' vious recorda^^they I Taihoa ! they'll probably jret it; befor*|