THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 5 October 1912, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—Whether the " one man, one drill" requirement of miners will spread to the Territorials ?

—What the Eemuera Road Board will have to squabble about when the Lucerne roads are made ?

—Who the "Mr Devereux F. Eas" is who, according to the " Star/ predicts a stormy October ?

—The free, unexpurgated, and confplete verbal opinion of Dr Maguire on the Auckland Hospital Board ?

—-If J. E. Elliott was really angry at being described as the Chairman of the Hobson County Council ?

—If it is true that a lady school teacher who quarrelled with a fellow lady teacher threatened to Skinner ?

—What has Auckland done ? Isn't the Government going to exhibit at our exhibition ? Mr Elliott is anxious to know.

—If William Tynan who broke thirteen windows on Roto Roa is superstitious about the ill-luck of that number ?

—What odds that Christopher James will not be an Auckland candidate at next Parliamentary elections ? The symptons are developing.

—" What is niore rare than a day in Spring ? " And the small boy who was at the Pine Island picnic exclaimed " A Chinaman with whiskers ! "

—If Erni Bond will require Sam Dickson to measure him for new headgear now that the Lucerne estates have agreed to build their own roads ?

—Why the no licensees are. billing " the boy orator" so big, and are mentioning the rotund Rev. J. Dawson among the " also starteds ? "

—If the exceedingly well - known engineer (who " dined" on Tuesday night) really agrees with the new " compulsory pilotage ?.' Ask the policeman.

—If Tom Wilford, M.P., was regretfully thinking of book debts when he said " there was not a lawyer in the country who did not daily give advice or service free " ?

—What Mokau Jones would do if a beneficient Government removed his grievance ? Probably hs would turn up with a new petition, as it's hard to drop the habits of a lifetime.

—If the alleged poetry cabled to Ulster by the N.S.W. Orangemen was not enough to make anyone arise, and if it is to be wondered at that disturbances subsequently occurred ?

—Whether Alf. Lumsden, the touring manager of " Tiny Town," who stands 6ft. 2in. high, ever has an argument with Hayati Haasid, the mayor of "Tiny Town," who is 2ft. 6in. ?

—If the anxiety displayed by M'.sP. Glover and' Payne for the release of the strikers, is an indication that a dissolution and an election is imminent ? It seems a bit early to hustle for votes.

Whether the " twopenny halfpenny destructor that wouldn't burn a label off a jam tin" (vide George Baildon) doesn't make up for its deficiencies by being a confirmed " smoker ? "

—If the V.M.C.A. is not bidding to become a greater begging organisation than the Salvation Army without any single reason the " Army " can produce ? "They that are whole need not a physician."

—What the unfortunate applicant for help said to the parson, who sent him empty away with the beautiful and appropriate, but wholly unsatisfying remark "The way of tie I«aggressor is hard ? "

If the Parliamentarians who are demanding the remission of death duties on the Macarthy and Campbell estates are not rather unpatriotic in trying to deprive the State of the money which it badly needs ?