THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 2 March 1912, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—What is Sam Dickson going to do about it now.'?. < —'How long before the Labour four ceases to sit solidly in pairs on opposite sides ? —-What is the attraction at Cowe's Bay on Sunday mornings for Amateur kodakites ? —Whether Maurice is looking for any more uncertain political sure things to lay odds on ? —Whether the No-Confidence division doesn't indicate a fine adjustent of the balance of power ? —Who are • the public-spirited gentlemen who have their eyes on the five-acre Harbour Board plot ? —Whether the Labour four were waiting for a move in order to follow the 'leader into the Government ranks ? —Why A. J. Entrican's idea of a fair and good wage should be so different from that of the unbiassed Union leaders ? —The name of that festive boniface who made time Royal at the Junction pub. "between days" at , the South Auckland Meeting ? —If the newspapers don't know that to say he or she "suicided " is not English, and 'if it wouldn't be more correct to say " lysolled " ? —What little Laurenson, M.P., wanted so badly when, apropos of the Dickson blab, he told Sir Joe he was "too imich of a gentleman" ? —Who were the good men handicapped in Parliament that the Hon. George referred to when buttering Charlie Poole at the valedictory ? —Whether J awn Payne's dervish whirl is being danced in an endeavour to keep time to the piping of the two sections of Grey Lynnetts ? —Why the Harbour Board doesn't institute a system of overseeing to discourage pillaging ? Merchants will soon be scared of getting goods consigned here. —If the companies are not asking a lot from the Harbour Board in the matter of alterations, and if they would expect private landlords to do as much ? —Why the papers are so unanimously and surprisedly commenting on the good behaviour of the encamped territorials—were they expecting an armed uprising ? —Whether Arthur Brett has not sworn eternal enmity against Squall Engineer Logan for I putting him out of the running in the heroic rescue of the hobbled lady ? —If the Hon.'; George wasn't a trifle too sardonic.'tn his humour when he stated that " with all his capacity Mr Poole' could nqt advertise and that was essential for a politician ?" What was ? —If the increased cargo and passenger rates consequent upon the man before the uiast demanding more pay have';\| ; been quickly passed ton ? It is-a case of the dog <• still trying to catch'its 'own tail, and the working-man l ' is still endeavouring to tititruri ':■ \ his own shadow, -2i- ; ' \- ■ ■'. "'