THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 44, 17 July 1909, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

— How many grades of oysters the State depot intends to issue ? —What J. H. Bradney thinks of Peter Virtue's latest inky effusion ? — Whether the local stockbrokers find the "Herald's" halos a good fit? — How the sharebrokers find time to take their meals in these days of briskness ? — Whether the Band of Buaybodies' scheme for a new daily paper has died a natural death ? — Whether the list of subscriptions to tbe dispossessed hotelkeepers' fund is to be made public? — If Magistrate Kettle and Fred Earl have yet agreed as to the definition of a steam-engine expert ? — How many of the touring team of poi dancers will be starred in Yankeeland as tamed chieftains and chieftainesses ? — If Youlin Birch couldn't get material for a good comic opera in the lately reported suburban petty robberies ? —What Albert Edward, M.P., said wben he received the Hon. J. A. Millar's telegraphic lesson in railway arithmetic? — Whether the Presbytery have made any protest to the Governor about starting his journey to Wellington on a Sunday ? — When Alec Alison is going to start a ferry service in Karangahape Road ? There's a good payable proposition in the idea. — Which magistrate Mayor Briggs had in his mind's eye when he ventured to talk publicly about the variable condition of magisterial livers? — Whether Henry Wilding, really, has any expectation of forcing the hand of tbe Ferry Company in the matter of steamer accommodation? — Dr Valintine's opinion of the methods adopted by the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association with regard to the ostracised doctors ? — if tbe address at one of the city churches last Sunday on " The Three Notes of the Church " had any reference to the amount expected from the collection ? — If the Thames deep level companies could have got more than the proffered £5000 grant even had the late member for the district remained in the Ministry ? — Why Mayor Grey didn't extend a civic welcome to Panjandrum Baeyertz? Surely the great I Am is of more importance than a Yankee W.C.T.U. female. — Whether it is a fact that Rees George and A. H. Grainger have sworn a solemn vow to take their whiskers off ; and what the ladies will say if they do so ? — If it is true that John Henry Hannan has contributed ten guineas towards the Labour Day celebration funds, and when tbe inquest is to be held on the collector ? — Why the Hon. George Fowlds doesn't commission George Knight to write a series of articles on phrenology for the " School Journal " ? It badly needs some humorous reading. — If it is a fact that Major Knyvett is in the habit of loading his big guns with charges of Dr Walker's snuff; and, if so, whether tbis doesn't in* fringe the conditions laid down by tho Geneva Convention ?