THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, 24 July 1909, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—Why the " all stone "party on the ') Town Hall question didn't open fire | earlier? *:- \'i — The name of the local medico .who >}. owns up to making clouds of fifty '•* cigarettes a day? \ —If £3500 worth of gates for the - Queen-street and Railway Wharves ? doesn't sound a trifle luxurious? — Whether the Auckland Rugby Union will really stand to its guns and take the chances ot martyrdom ? — If Selwyn Mays thinks be has run to earth all the no-license district { methods of stimulating the nerves? — Why the City Council don't cable to Expert P. A. Vaile to help them to a solution of the Town Hall problem ?' — What particular form of " tonic " is finding the readiest sale at Waihi and Paeroa since the Te Kuiti disclosures ? — If Law doesn't count for a good deal more than the prophets in the administration of the Costley Home now-a-days? — Whether the Hon. George didn't find the footing slippery when he walked downstairs after the Grey Lynn banquet ? — If the bottom has not pretty well fallen out of the sensational revelations which produced the setting up of the Police Commission 1 — Whether there are enough threepeony pieces in the city to stand the drain of Saturday's street collections and leave something for the Sunday offertories ? — If Arthur Rosser and Co. have * any answer to the butchers' plea that it is the increased cost of labour that is keeping up the price of meat against the consumer ? — Whether it would be possible to find a more horrible example of the decadence of the "Herald" than the publication of the Amy Book narrative ? How are the mighty fallen ! — If Harry Greenslade isn't getting tired of the minuteness with which his movements are being chronicled in the " Personal " columns, and would not like an opportunity of travelling incog. 1 — If the officials of the Auckland Rugby Union have not been trembling in their boots since D. W. McLean .' threw in his lot with the League ; and whether they think they can survive without him ? : — Whether Inclement Wragge's demonstration of what could be done with New Zealand's Meteorology Department can be taken as indicating that he would not be averse to undertaking its management? — If our greatest and- most successful speculator, is not to be found in the local mining world? In addition to raking in profit from mining specs, he scooped up a cool £3000 from a southern bookmaker the other day. —If it is true thai G. W. S. Patterson went to Wellington because the > Defence Office require his mature advice in case Lord Kitchener should come? And in that ease, what W. J. Napier thinks of the matter ? —If Robert Fletcher, Wellington Harbour Board's shining light, wat afraid of catching the Earner fever when he fled so precipitately at firat Bight of the ferro- concrete understructure of our railway wharf last Sunday? Those bulging pudding: 'patchings are a gruesome sight at any i