PROMPTLY SUPRESSED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3181, 8 September 1881, Page 4

PROMPTLY SUPRESSED.

More than a year ago those who travel by tho Woodward avenue car line entered into a solemn agreement not to mention the weather to each other when they met on the car. No matter how hot or cold it was no one was to speak of it, and each one was to infer that ail the others had brains enough to expect 10 deg. below in January and 85 deg. above in August. As a result, of this agreement a nuisance was abolished and thousands of .citizens put in a way to enjoy themselves as well as one can in a street car. !wo weeks ago the organisation was revived, and scores of new names added to the list, and up to yesterday noon the word ' weather' had not been hinted at on any car on that line. At that hour a stranger ontered a car at Adelaide-street, and had scarcely taken a seat when he said to a man across the uisle : ' Nice little shower we've had ?' He was given a freezing look in reply, but he continued : ' Curious that we don't have more thunder storms this spring.' One of the organisation here presented him with an engraving of n coffin, but after a brief glance he continued : — ' Wonder if we are going to hare a very dry summer ?' One more effort was made to save him, but he recklessly observed : — ' I'm buying a place up here and shall use this line four times a day. Did any of you gentlemen notice how the thermometer Stood ? ' The car was stopped, and he was taken off and impaled on Uie top of some iron pickets ; no one even troubled himself to take down his dying words to his wife. The coroner has refused to hold any inquest, and the chief of the police says he shall take no official notification of the incident. That's the sort of men they are up Woodward avenue, and that's tho sort of end weather talkers may expect to reach. This saying it's hot or cold or balmy or breezy or close or bracing has got to be put a stop to, if the cross-bar on every lamp-post becomes a gallows. It means nothing, annoys everybody, (nd is deserving of violent death. Let the work of execution go on.