It Is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 October 1900, Page 18

It Is Town Talk

— That individual communion cups are now in use at St. Paul's, Wanganui. — That " When the Duke comes " is already passing into a colloquialism in "Wellington. — That the Melrose Borough Council has been the best abused municipal body of these latter days. — That railway people have been extra vigilant since the train wrecking crank appeared on the scene. That Petone boating enthusiasts ought to be able to form a strong rowing club in the township by the sea. — That blue paper is being extensively circulated in Dunedin just now — legal pills for unpaid mining calls. — That people who advertise for " some kind person to adopt a baby boy " seem to have increased in number lately. — That it is not a bad record for Wellington to score a- shipping trade business for the year equal to that of Bristol. — That Wanganui volunteers haven't now a rifle range to their name, and they're kicking up a pretty fuss about it. — That Palmerstonians are at last thinking of going in for an Opera House on the limited liability company principle. — That a Wellington girl, who sent her " is-to-be " a draper's bill for lingerie instead of a love letter, has been blushing ever since. — That the Blenheim S.M. is severe on " prohibs." found in hotels — a fine or a month, and no time allowed for payment of the fine. — That many farmers up the line will be hard hit if the coming summer is, a dry one, as rains prevented them from cropping until very late. — That " Zadkiel," who occasionally hits the bull's-eye, prophesied before the war that New Zealanders would distinguish themselves this year. — That an M.H.E. who stepped off a tram the wrong' way last week fell and skinned-hls proboscis. 'Spectators thought things, but he drinks very little indeed. —That Dr Truby King wasn't far wrong when he stated at Dunedin that the overloading of youthful brains with useless subjects was often the cause of insanity. —That when Sergt. McDonald left Nelson police he was presented with " A Key to Heaven." Very suggestive of the lock and key to which he had so long been accustomed. — That a remarkable feature of the Wellington bowling greens this season is the number of young men who are now " following the jack." 'Tis not an old man's game now. — Tfrat the' open-air consumption cure practised at the Nordrach Sanatorium, near Dunedin, is proving highly efficacious. The sanatorium was established fourteen months ago. — That a Wellington person admitted in one of his "joyful moments lately that he had to " sweat " his employees, else he couldn't keep up his luxurious home for his family's benefit. — That, judging by the number of seamen who desert and refuse duty on ships coming to New Zealand, a rotten state of things must exist on board. And sailors can stand a lot, too. — That if train wrecking was made a capital offence, according to a Southern correspondent, the risk of being unexpectedly sent to eternity would be considerably minimised. — That with a view to augmenting population, a facetious country settler suggests further experimental legislation in the direction of giving a small pension to every man that married. — That newly-elected Cr. Brown the other night quoted Henry George at such length at a meeting of the Melrose Borough Council that his fellow-members one by one stole out silently into the night. — That a Palmers) onian suggests the shifting of the seat of Government to that '. town as a precaution against foreign : attack. As well propose the shifting of i Palnaerston to Wellington as a precaution ' against dry rot. i