THEY SAY

Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 3 February 1912, Page 7

THEY SAY

—That Auckland has two cbampions—Champion flour and Champion swimmer. —That the Ponsonby Bowling Club have started a series of gaslight tournaments. —That the supporters of Gloy at Takapuna last Monday are going to " stick to it." —That Sydney has gone one better than Auckland in the shark industry— and gruesome relics. —That the Newmarket Borough Council has recently had the Woolf very much at the door. —That the Ponsonby Bowling Club will have a surplus of skips for their gaslight tournaments. —That much naughty nautical language was used over the paucity of wind at the Anniversary Regatta. —That Taranaki has a big future before it in oil. Oil and cow-spanking combined are better than many goldmines. —That it is more ham and jelly than honey and butter-milk with the settlers at Port Chailee since the annual picnic. —That six trading craft skippers all deserve a prize for what they didn't say and other things about the wind on Regatta Day. —That butter has gone up to Is 3d a lb., "in sympathy with prices in London and Vancouver." At this rate it will soon be out-of-sight for many people. —That two officials of the Anniversary Regatta have developed eye-strain, and are now collaborating in a new song to be called "A Night on the Ocean Wave." —That Maurice O'Connor has news that the first acts of the Irish Parliament will be the abolition of the tax on potheen and a prohibitory export tax on shillelaghs. —That J. H. Bradney has been waiting long and patiently for the return of the Harbour Board's ex-chair-man, and that now the whirligig of fate will bring in his surprises. —That Christchurch is not to be allowed to steal a march on the "last, loneliest and loveliest" but first city of the Dominion in the way of an exhibition corner, even if there isn't any money in it. —That the starvation cure has been rather at a discount since the news of the deaths in Mrs Uazzard's " nofood " hospital came through from America. . There is such a thing as overdoing even starvation. —That the Canterbury cricketers are spoiling for a fight with Auckland, and that since the downfall of the chosen eleven to the bats of the other thirteen the shield has been locked up and the guard removed. —That it is about time that the "Twinkler" gave the pig-tail tribe a rest and ceased from penning puerile leaders on the revolution troubles in the Far East. The writer of the screeds, to -which we have re ferred, may have grounds for his assertions in a tea-cup, or perhaps he intends opening a China store.