It Is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 57, 3 August 1901, Page 22

It Is Town Talk

— That when prohibitionists fall out the public occasional'y hear the truth. — lhat the Wober Road Board have appointed a lady as that body's secretary. — That a policeman's lot in the colony, from a financial view-point, is much moie happy than aforetime — That a country paper headed an article "Beer Hopes Shattered," the oilier day It meant "Boer." — That a Grey mouth paper has had to apn'ogi'-c for publishing the death of a young lady who is very much alive. - That a local domestic bewailed the f ict that a funeral was fixed for a certain day, because it was her afternoon off - That a great many large landowners appear to he partieulaily anxious to sell their propel ties to the Government. --That a delegate to one of the conferences at Palmerston last week netted £75 as the result of a litt c game of cards. — That 'cellist Jean Gcrardj who performed here last week was, when a lad, once kissed by the late Queen Victoria. — -That a Southern paper heads the death of Pugilist Cribb at Sydney — "Done to death for the amusement of cowards." — That we do not hear anything about a tablet being erected in honour of Wellingf onians who served (and fell) in South Africa. — That an English lady has just seem ed, through Sir J. Jeune, restitution of conjugal rights from her husband, a colonial parson. — -That the Levin people look upon the proposal to establish a big central lunatic asylum in their midst as a rather doubtful favour. — That a young schoolboy asked a local stationer the other day for one of those indelicate pencils, please." Ine'ehb c, he meant. — That if a coalfield is found up Mauncevil c way, by the proposed prospect1 is company next summer, this district will be greatly benefited. — That, in the matter of banquetting and giving "socials" to politicians, New Zealand is far ahead of any other part of the King's dominions. — That the newspaper runners in Christchurch are now licensed, and wear special caps with badges. Formation of a union hourly expected. — That Wellington would have been treated to a mysterious disappearance case last week had not anxious relatives accidentally learnt the cause. — That particulars about that row between three citizens outside Parliamentary Buildings the other night would make interesting reading. — That there was an eating match at a beef and oyster soiree in the city lately. Well, it is an ill wind that does not blow patients into doctors' surgeries. —That some Society people are taking their well-dressed children out barefooted. The idea is not likely to prove fashionable during the cold weather — That a suburban lady, upon whose fence somebody painted a quack medicine advertisement, said that "Those 'eie scenery societies they 'as 'er sympathy." _— That a man lof used to icnew his .0)0 policy with an insurance agent because he was afraid his wife, with whom he is on very so-so teims, would poison him. — That a New Woman has been discovered in Master ton. She has adveitised that she will no longer be responsible for any debts her husband may contract ' - That the .ulvi-itismg joke business ife in full swing on Sydney-side, and results in some cases have been unpleasant. We do not want that kind of thing here. - That theic was a Quakers' wedding •it C'hristchuich recently — a peculiar function no fuss and flummery, and the spirit moved the pajr to say "yes" at intei vals — That, at a Clmstchurch wedding last week, the wine flowed so freely tha? po'ice aid had to be sought not to help with the wine of coui^e, but to remove to the lock-up the cabby who was to have driven the happy couple away m his cab.

That a refreshment room will likely hguie at Masterton station shortly. Why not lun a dining car from. Woodville to Cross' Creek? That truant officers are handicapped by not being able to examine attendance registers of private schools. This should be remedied. --That it will be a long time before that ' Greater Wellington" proposal is an accomplished fact. The public appear to be rather apathetic on thei subject. That a Te Aro woman, who is expecting; a legacy, was asked the other day what she intended doing with it. She i ephed that she w as going to "learn the piannci." That if all dredging companies' accounts were audited by a Government official it would be moie satisfactory for shareholders., and not a few "wild cats" would be wiped out. That a midnight football matcli on Lambton Quay last week was funny, but the gentleman who recited Scotch to the po'iceman on the kerbstone nearly got into trouble. That some old Eotorua natives lea ly believe that the departed Duke, as a matter of etiquette, will return some of the priceless heirlooms they planked at his royal feet. — That some member of the House ought to give his attention to the dangerous pea-rifle nuisance These weapons should be licensed, or their use within boroughs prohibited. —That a veisifier of sprightly ianc\ , who sent a. Thorndon girl a lover's poem, received, m reply, a copy of "My Grandfather's Clock," with a note asking what he thought of it. — That if the discussion in the Hou&e on local police force management was undesirable, it at least served to convey to the public a lot of information on a subject they knew htt'e about. — That a fair Wellingtonian, who '•ecretlv wrote a novel, and sent it Home, has just received the MS. back. No publisher would look at it, and she is heartbroken in consequence. -That Member Ell says he will continue to introduce that Tote Abolition Bill as long as he is in Parliament. He apparently does not mind a sackful of "forlorn hopes'" of that character. — That a Napier-Gisborne railway would be a prand tiling, but in New Zealand, a lad can grow grey betw een the time a petition is presented asking for a thing and the granting of it. — That, a propos of a Sydneyite being committeed for trial for challenging another to a duel, it is stated that the last prosecution of the kind was in 1844. whpn a Sydne^ alderman challenged Robert Lowe (the late Lord Sherbrooke), who had him bound over. — That, under the heading of "A Star Spangled Empire," a New York paper seriously counsels Great Britain to apply — as a remedy for its ills — for admission to the United States, and advocates a re-union of Engh&h-speaking peoples with head-quarters, at Washington.