It Is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 10, 8 September 1900, Page 17

It Is Town Talk

— That the Papawai outing was as slow as the proverbial funeral. — That going to law is like going in to bat — it's all right if you score. — That folks are wondering whether the Queen sent out a Jubilee sword for Col. Bobin. — That the Evening Post will not be so aristocratic when it loses its two Eailes. —That the Wellington Scottish Eifles are apparently not going to be togged out in kilts. —That M.H.E.'s don't vary the styles of their neckties so often now George Hutchison has gone. — That the Byrning question in legal and West Coast circles is — How many more cases are to be filed ? — That if the City Council would submit a proposal to widen Frasei's-lane only ratepayers would plump for it. — Tha-t many good people of Wellington keenly regr<-t having committed their troubles in writing to Mrs Henderson. — That it is remarkable how many builders have sought to get a seat on the City Council during the past two years. — That Allan Orr emphasised his municipal address on Monday night with the thumpings of a 101b piece of road metal. — That for the last year or two the City Council has had a remarkable attraction for the building and contracting fraternity. — That Wellington is as apathetic as ever over matters of public interest — as over the Main Trunk Bailway, for instance. —That it isn't often Tom Wilford is speechless, but he was when the verdict was given against him in the Charwomen case. — That the Government is after the Jenkins Estate, Kilbiinie, for workmen's homes pu 1 poses. Look out Melrose Borough Council ! — That in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Byrne's witness Michel was as nervous as a cat under the eye of Justice Edwards. — That Maud Beatty's return to the stage has been a nine-days' wonder to the gossips. All kinds of guesses have been hazarded. — That Mrs Henderson must have carried on a most interesting correspondence, judging by the letteis found on her premises by the police. — That there is great satisfaction in the city at the assurance that Ma) or Aitken may yet be prevailed upon to take a second teim of office. — That Sergeant Dwyer, of Wanganui, is de-ith on dogs since one went thiough his fowl run recently and slew £15 woith of leghorns. — That in the course of a severe aiticle on the Otago Bugby Union, a Southern writer styles the Committee of Management as the Tsung-h-Yamen — That Maughan Barnett is putting the finishing touches to his musical setting of the Odp wiitten foi the opening of the Canterbury Exhibition. — That the steam whistle obbligato that echoes thiough the Ait Gallery Iroin passing trains is distinctly not an improvement to concerts held there. — That Tom Wilford found more than a match in Donkeyman Denham when cross-examining the latter in the Jones — Scoones case on Wednesday. — That yet again " What happened to Jones " was wholly satisfactoiy to Jones. This Jones was a mariner, but Scoones was the man who was put to sea. — That the Premier and Mr Ward must have been very tired to have stayed at home last Saturday whilst the Governor was having a day out at Papawai. — That the two medical Scotts have been much confounded in the city during the past week, and have got into several scots over the mistakes over their initials. — That the improvement proposals of the Melrose Borough Council are worthy of a body which holds a district likely to become absorbed in Greater Wellington. — That Federation with Australia hasn t got Buckley's chance in New Zealand. All our political leaders ara opposed to us giving up our Home Bule and our future great destiny as a separate nation.

— That the contest between Tolhurst and Davenport for Thorndon Ward will be one of the classes and the masses. Who will accomplish the Davenport trick ? — That wharf labourer Scoones holds the stranger theory that once a man is summoned before the S.M., his character is gone for ever. Bough on many folks ! — That the youngsters who have been dependent on the plague-rat selling as a means of income will be claiming compensation from the Council for the loss of this resource. — That one of the Wanganui papers is publishing, as " our serial story," that strikingly new yarn of Charles Eeade's " It is Never Too Late to Mend." Chapters from the Bible to follow. It would be quite new to Wanganui. — That numbers of Wellington people are quaking in their shoes over the seizure of letteis made by the police this week in a certain Vivian-street establishment. The names of the writers would make folks stare. — That the man from the country is regretting those good old times when he could come to the city, and have a high old time without getting into the hands of {he police. — That wharf labourer Scoones is an original soit of bettor, for down in the Eotoiti's stokehole he laid some money in hand, some more in the bank, and a divellinghouse, against 10s. — That W. A. Evans will get the Church vote in Cook Ward, Allan Orr the labour vote, Tom Carmichael the Liberal League vote, Hawthorne the support of his friends, and Higginbottom the votes of the Ratepayers' Association and some others. — That when Lawyer Wilford said the taking of an honorarium made a professional of a Secretary, Lawyer Gully neatly chipped in " You ought to know ! " One against.the M.H.B. — That some ratepayers opposed the Wingfield-street-Fraser's-lane widening loan because they thought it was a church scheme to pave the way towards St. Paul's Cathedral. — That a donkeyman, a greaser, and two firemen, who gave evidence in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, were "the most respectable-looking men of their class " that Judge Edwards had ever seen. — That several well-known people have given themselves away very badly by going to the police under the mistaken impression that letters of theirs had been found in the house of the woman arrested on the charge oi performing an illegal operation.

We are informed, in correction of a paragraph in a recent issue, that the plaintiff in the action of Wilkie v. Wilkie, tried at Wanganui, was David, not Adam Wilkie : The defendants were John (not James) and Adam. It was David whose insobriety was in question at Wanganui. The Empress Needle Company only remains one more week in Wellington. The attractions for the annual demonstration of the Eight Hours Federated Union are advertised. The demonstration this year will be held on the 10th October. Mr R. H. Davenport, a well known and highly respected citizen, offers himself as a candidate tor Thorndon Ward in the coming municipal election. Judging by the enthusiasm shown at his meeting in the Sydneystreet Schoolroom on Tuesday evening Mr Davenport is well suppoited. The comedy season of the Dramatic Students commences in the Opera House on the evening of the 12th, and continues until the 15th. " Modern Wives " forms the bill for the first two evenings, with the one-act comedy " Old Cronies " as a curtain-raiser, while "School" will be performed on the Fuday and Saturday. Mr Allan Orr is going strong for the Cook Ward. Mr George Fisher once said that if Allan's energy was bottled up for a week, there would be sufficient motive power to drive a train to the Hutt. He has been a grafter fiom boyhood, and for twenty years has taken an active part in questions affecting the masses, friendly societies, school committees, etc.