It is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 59, 17 August 1901, Page 22

It is Town Talk

— That it is probable that labour legislation will shortly "take a spell." — That, owing to the demise of a Wellington citizen a Napier lady has benefited by £20,000. — That the taxation talk is making it apparent that valuation in New Zealand is a fearful and wonderful thing. — That a gentleman, in a hurry. cnteied a confectioners, and asked for "a bath of milk and a glass bun." — That two visitors to the Hospital, talking to a patient seriously ill, wished him "Many happy returns of the day." — That there i.s a growing opinion that legalised arbitrators are likely to soon lose their billets — and their guineas. — That Northern bookmakers are giving odds that the Government will run its own coal yard within three months. Any takers' 5 — That our politicians cannot bo said to be a small-minded lot, for they get moie opportunities than most people to change their minds ' — That, if "unimproved va'ues" passes the small man will certainly go out of the property trade, and leave a fan field for the magnate. — That the charge by Hussars at Ohphant's River recently i« the first timr in history that cavalry have used the footsoldiers' weapon. — That the Musgrove Opera Company have collided with a bonanza The bookings on the first day the box -pa n was exposed to view totalled £1600. — That the Premier's influence is felt in Belgium. Old-age pensions have been instituted — £2 4s is the annual dole to persons over 65. — That the Northern Conciliation Board has earned many guineas during the last six months. Eight cases for conciliation. Two settled. — That Prince George of York spoke the truth feelingly and absolutely when he said he parted from Australasia with pain. He had toothache! — That it is not generally known that Royal presents received by the Duke and Duchess on their tour are to be publicly exhibited in London. — That the Compensation for Accidents Act is making insurance people so busy that Government clerks of that ilk are likely to get their holidays curtailed. — That if the Health Department undertakes the necessary reforms now in hand, fruit ripened in pestilential places and Chinese vended will become unfashionable. — That a bright scholar, who denned beheading correctly "as having your head cut off," baulked badly when he asserted that defeated meant "having your feet cut off." — That the legal legislative luminaiy has been accused of gloating over the fact that the Compensation for Accidents Act will benefit him in fees. Absurd, of course - -That Kngland does not want puie beer. A Bill to provide the populace with a nod-poisonous variety of the beverage was ignominiously thrown out in the Commons. —Thai paitiet, cited before the Wellington Conciliation Board say thenluck has "turned," because bad luck is usually the first thing that comes to the man who waits! —That the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General in London, is reassuring the people of that city, and the world generally, in legard to New Zealand's alleged coming bankruptcy — That South Afnca is lecommended as a profitable market for New Zealand fowls. If these fowls are intended for the civilian consumption, better to wait till all New Zealand Tommies ha\e icturnod home — That a Chicago paper, in an ofthand manner, ajuiounees that the number killed locall' in the Fourth of July cclebiatioiib was only nineteen, as against thntv the pievious year, while those injured was 1611, as compared with 1325. Consumptions' often caused by cold, Neglected in its e.uly stage, And once it gets a good him hold, It hasn't much i expect foi ,i^e Now when a man's so neai the giave, When hope is dead and death seems sure, Oh ' what can ease him, what can save ? W. E. Woods' Gklat Plwjsujiint Cuke.