THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 43, 10 July 1909, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

— Manager Marcus's opinion of the v - Auckland City Council ? —What Councillor W. A. Thompson thinks of Chief Reporter Fred ' Baxter's powers of repartee ? — Why Albert Glover wasn't given a temporary place among His Excellency's staff for the visit to the Cook, group ? — Who was the " special representative " of the Press Association that wrote so ornately about the Governor's trip to the Islands ? — How Commissioner Eman Smith is going to exist at Karatonga without ' trout and game on which to exercise his sporting talents ? — Whether Photographer W. M. R:iyne has yet recovered from the effects of those pills? Also, why Frank Fenton is sniggering ? — If the construction of Peter Virtue's latest letter to the Harbour , Board is an indication that his private secretary is taking a holiday ? — If it is true that A. P. Friend and J. Shepherd intend to join hands and form a society that will teach theatrical managers the way they should go ? — If it isn't up to the " Herald " proprietary to back up their suggestion * for an Auckland zoo by making the first contribution to its live stock ? — Whether Father Patterson's presence on the Eagle on her adventurous trip doesn't lend some colour to the popular Buperstition about clerical Jonahs ? — If the Kaiparan Austrians, in their vehement professions of extreme loyalty to their adopted country and hostility to its enemies, don't "pro- ' test too much ?" — If it is a fact that Peter Mackay's ; Auckland Highlanders have decided, ' out of consideration for their knees, not to come out on parade until the wintry winds have ceased blowing? — If the success of Harry Greeuslade, M.P., in conjuring a £3500 public buildings grant out of the Government in these hard times doesn't entitle him to rank as a rival to Chung Ling Soo ? — What Inspector Cullen thinks of the latest form of Sherlock Holmesism —detection of the guilty man by his heart- beats — and whether he has yet ordered Chief Detective Marsack to ' equip his sleuths with stethoscopes? ' — Why C. J. Parr and the rest of the Education Board didn't go down with a brass band to welcome George George on his return from Welling* ton ? Surely, G. G.s marvellous achievements deserved some such re* cognition. —Whether C. H. Poole, M.P., intends taking on again the billet of Master of Ceremonies for the Northern • Boxing Association tournaments ? His effort to talk down the house last Saturday afternoon was hopeless. In fact, he was knocked out. — What the Hon. J. A. Millar means by his prediction that subscribers to " Hansard " will get full value for their money when Parliament meets again ? Can it be that he looks for treasures in the speeches of our own Albert Edward, all of which are yet to come? — Whether Michael Walsh has purchased a specially strong chain to keep "Spot " within bounds on the Glorious Twelfth? If he hasn't, some Orange individual like Lindsay Cooke might get hold of him, and decorate his. noble tail with yellow ribbon. Which, begorrah ! would never do at all, at all. ' : ;.: ; vU ■::'; .\';..V-;'^;K'