THEY SAY

Observer, Volume XXX, Issue 39, 11 June 1910, Page 7

THEY SAY

■■■■■ ■- ' — '—•- ■-...,.—,- ■ —That city councillors seem to have taken a sudden aversion to the brand "J.J." J. W. Taylor, Mi A., attended the Governor's levee. Mast have been a free lunch. •—That P. J. Nerheny's Costley Home strictures form, taken altogether, a mare's nest of enormous dimensions. —That dear Clive Lowe is sad. He is losing his little Birch, and will have nothing with which to tickle up the public. I" r —That a certain well-known local contractor, who is a -widower, has a matrimonial twinkle in his optic. Giddy young thing! —That Sam Hanna can sympathise with Kaiser William on the subject of that boil. Sam is suffering from a job lot of the critters himself. —That some of the nonentities who shoved themselves into the Governor's levee would have been better employed in chopping wood or washing dishes. —That Lord Flunket, when he surveyed the dismantled condition of Government House, was heard to murmur '* The old home ain't what it used to be." —That A. J. Entrican smole a sickly smile when J. J. Craig's compensation claim came before the City Council. Quite like the stirring times on the Harbour Board. —That the back-down of the Government in the Knyvett case has given the southern papers something to think about; and Frank Pullen is audibly smiling. —That the Northcote Worms Athenaeum has decided that the present House of Lords must be abolished. Lloyd-George may now breathe more freely. —That the member* of the fair sex are quite > convinced 1 that Mayor Bagnall, in that official bat, looks too sweet for anything; and city councillors are getting jealous. —That, judging by the number of farmers who have recently been advertising in the dailies for wives, the agricultural industry isn't in such a very depressed state, after all. —That at least one of the exhibitors in the Society of Arts Exhibition should have been hung in quite another way, and the Hanging Committee should see to it before he escapes. —That Jack Kneen wants a superintendent of harbours for the Whole of New Zealand. Either W. H. Hamer or J. M. Brigham—to say nothing of W. J. Napitr—ought to be ttble to fall the bill nicely. —That, after the way he stage managed that Druids' torchlight procession at Onehunga, Peter Mackie ought to be good for a job With J. C. Williamson as stage manager of one of his big companies. —That the recent indisposition of - the Hon. Wm. Hall-Jones doesn't colour the idea that he will keep his London job going very long. Our Legislative Council would make a far more fitting avenue of service for him now. - '.'/ v ' : ' - "-' v ' —That a lady correspondent has written to the ''Star" to say that George McKnight, one of the Labour candidates for City East, is-a man of natural ability, because he has written verse and ; stories for an Australian i journal. This is; feminine logic, with; 1 ~'a vengeance.:';-;Yfe,Y>:YYY^^

—That when a man's birthday rodnd* he often, takes a day off.-- Bafctfifi women take a year oft. ' r < v 'S^m —That Red McGregor's win in Great Northern Steeplechase wa*'re-:-'|| sponsible for language that was more. v vil blue than red. ■ v ~' ^m —That Dr Sharman had ah night sitting last Sunday night, waiting for the Mahenb. Quite like the : 'il old 'Frisco mail days. > /,^| —That John Fuller, instead of ">s% allowing that duck to quack inanely, Jl ought to teach it to sing '»Geraldine" in a silvery tenor voice. ', *3$ —That the latest business departure ; x sjf is lady bank managers. Are James Coaxes, D. W, Dathie, and W. 8., $j Woodward getting nervous ? ,/ %4 That Judge Chapman's remarks on *% auditors have occasioned indignation .<•% among the fraternity, and applause vst among the laymen. And it's the latter , ' s <« tbat oount. ><$ —That it is cruel on the part of the Press Ass. to suddenly leave us in '"M darkness as regards the Kaiser's boil.' >Jf W. J. Napier is looking quite haggard X*i and anxious. ' • «$ —That an airship service is urgently * 4 required across Customs-street. Pedes- v 's trian traffiicis impossible, and boats Yl get stuck in the mud banks, so airships ; 4 are the only things left. ;3j —That the Hon. George Fowlds's f| Grey Lynn meeting watr not by any x l| means so beatific as the " Star" made M it out to be. There was more than -.'} one rift within the lute. >A, —That Mount Eden was totally enveloped in a tremendous and im- '\^? penetrable fog last Sunday. But some •>'s of the young couples who were moun- "k taineering didn't mind a bit. >J'| Albert Edward Glover, dur- »/« ing that alleged Labour meeting at '$ the Choral Hall, was.heard to mutter ~'.' for me." Albert & found'«neutrality" a broken reed to lean upon.- Ph —That a resident of Waihi has '■$ invented v a new type of airship. It -;$ would come in very handy for the im- hj portation of alcoholic refreshments. "'-1 The Waiheatben police haven't got an /:? airship yet. if) ■ - ' ' A —That John Fuller didn't exactly >$ growl over the late arrival of the 'f] Maheno. No, he smole. You see, all ,jfcg§ the suburbanites who had come down Va to go to His Majesty's had to go to the < 1 Opera House instead. v * -« ■■-•...■■ , r f —That a match between a hockey " team of sweet young things and one of 4 mere men is to eventuate shortly. <% The nasty, horrible men have got some *jf mice in training for the day, and \M things should be exoiting, t -'M ■ " ■ •■ ' v -y$ —That Grandma "Herald" seems '"4 to have lost her ability for working vp t ~;M a sensation out of nothing. In her,-.?"ji juvenile and lively days she would 'Yl have filled tip columns with interviews 43 with passengers on the Maheno. Jl —That, .judging by the strenuous , J| "boot" tactics employed by certain-<>% local footballers, those individuals ' M must be getting in training for the -Y| visit of the American team. That new 3| morgue will certainly be wanted. s —That "Buz," of the Gas Office, reckons that if he is elected to the >SM Parnell Borough Council he will be *.*s| able to supply that body with all the -vifc gas it needs—and valuable gas at that,, too—guaranted not to set anything on \-'m fire. ' M —That J. H. Gunson ought to have 'JiM prevailed upon H. C. Tewsley to come X*B§ up and discuss the mail question over/;;ff| the wine and walnuts at the' Chamber of Commerce dinner. An amicable *Vjl| settlement would have been »vjil certainty. - v ' ' »~§|| —That, if the various fire could only have", persuaded David Goldie and the other members of the>f§|| Fire Board to tackle the job of drividg>y§|| that City Brigademotorin theprocea«A;i|f|j sion last Sunday,'the affair would. been a great deal more exciting nndji|§§ speotaoular than it was. •. ; ,i: %J§||h