It is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 87, 1 March 1902, Page 22

It is Town Talk

—That theie aie six seivaut iegi^ti\ officer m Masteiton to cope with the two skills who w ant a job That the m.stmastei at Cheviot ha Ireceived .uiotlu i ■shock The Government have donated him £20. —That Ruchaid Kipling, the poetical advisei ot the Kmpiie is but 3<> So young in veai^-. so old m ~uilt ' -That taoopeis have come to leali-^ that the shake of a Ministers hand ear ries with it a seigeant's stripes —That King Edw arc! is becoming increasingly democratic. He is on a visit to Loid Bui ton. the beei peer —That Felix West, of the Ninth is tempting fate He was saved fiorn the wreck of the Wanarapa and is looking for moie storm. —That the piivate coal owncis aie looking veiy black indeed now that the ' enormous capital" of £40 000 is to be spent in State coal miners That at a leeent gala held at New Bughton (Chnstohurch), one of the ' trophies" offered foi an amateur athletic race was. a pair of trousers' —That the Milling Trust is evidently a <>ood thing foi the Auckland Northern Roller Mills. Tliev aie working night and day to supply Southern orders. — That Wellington derelicts are fearful of going out of doors, foi feai of bumping up a-gainst one of the nuraeious evangelist': who abound at piesent — That a country paper confidently asserts that one of the chief leasons foi Mr. Seddon's Home-going is to make changes in the ''constitution of the Empne." — That what is left of Gianville of the ' Devons," who was at Ladvsmith and who wa.s bullet punctuied nine times is lecturing on the weai\ wai m Auckland — That a country paper fears that a lady, who was st'iuck bv her husband with an axe, will recovei. and the NewZealand Jack Ketch be cheated of a ''subject " — That the rumour that George Hutchison had drafted peace proposals is hardly hkelv to be true Under peace Dutch rebels would have no need for his advocacy — That the gem of the week in daily paper advertisements is ' Wanted, an artist, to paint a wall " Will someone kindly send along a navvy to run a bianch bank s — That Australian German. Consul Yon Bun's remark that Anglo-German relations were cordial is ' significant Surely the Pi ess Association will cable this Home. — That King Dick w ill soon hay c a complete alphabet after his name ''King Edw ard's Foremost Subject" is the latest honour. K.E.F.S. looks quite imposing — That a well-known Wellington society woman, who has tetumed from up North, has kept (so she says) a ' dialogue" of hei travels. It's Eugh^h should, be interesting. — That the drunken man who recent lv fell from the second stoiv of a Southern hotel was urn in by the police and complained in the morning that he felt a bit stiff." — That Dr. Grattan Guinness made a notable convert this week in the person of a well-known local politician. The Doctor is confident of the continuity of purpose" of his conveit. — -That a keen observer has recent K discovered that indifferent spirits aie put into ' real McKay" bottles, and sold to unsuspecting W T ellmgtonian<He should go into the detective industry — That a farming friend in the Wairarapa has discoveied those seven pig> he recently lost The\ had eaten into one of his prize potatoes, and got lost He was not on oath when he mentioned the fact. -That it is a woman's tongue that cannot keep a secret but it was the w ageing of a man's tongue that exposed family secrets and gave a woman five veais' penal servitude at the recent ciimmal sessions That candidates at next election promise to be as thick as slugs after a shower of rain Three hundred a veai and a free railw ay pass not to speak of ' pickings," are hard to resist in this utilitarian age — That the various committees in the country, formed to cope with the ragwort and other weedy nuisances, should ask the Government if it is blameless of pests on its own lands before casting stones at others

—That again the possibly bubonic ut is an ai rifle of commeicc and the small bin buckles on lus catapult and is glad. -That a man named Sausidge was lecentK fined in a Southern Couit foi \a,gran(\ He is a nnstcn ' of (muse - That Amei leans ha\e. staited an. ' Anti-Sleop Society" The\ achocate foui hours' sleep and twent\ lioui^' woik Millions aie going 1<: - The hist intimation of the enormous uuinbei of lunatics m the States --That the son of a wealthy Aucklande>i, who was made a seigeant in the 'Ninth" piobablv because be had novel been a volunteer before has ahead\ been piomotecl lieutenant He should be a colonel bv the time he letuins — Tliat a wily business man m a .small toTMi not far distant recent h cornei ed the whole \isible supply of keiosene tins, and sold out at big profits The man who was married however is looking for the magnate's life — That an English recruit, who was under the height for Baden Powell's police, was admitted under a special exemption clause Why not have asked Mr Seddon to ' make him grow ha]f-an-moh " King Dick has done it before. -That usuiv is not dead in the land Last number of the ' Mercantile and Bankrupts Gazette" gnes particulars of the filing of five di edging companies boi rowing money In one instance £2000 was advanced at 21 pei cent mteiest —That Harold Clifton, the Karon winner of ''Tit Bits" prize for New Zealand experiences, really ought to contribute to the "Wide World Magazine '' the onJv really truthful magazine existent, and the organ of the famous De Rougemont. — That burglars bioke into a New South Wales police station lecentlv The constable's wife charged with the bioom a.nd scattered them. Something stringent should be done to piotect the police from attack Turning the tables would be a good wav

Clinical Experiences," a copy of n hich has been sent to us is a highly mteiesting volume, written, by Drs. Fieomau and Wallace 1 (of the ElectroMedical and Surgical Institute, S\dne\) It deals with nervous complaint^ and how to cure them. Nervous complaints, and the thousand and one ills that arise from them, are plainly simply, and exhaustively described, and thetreatment of their cure is also set forth in a way that even a dunce can undeistand. The authors have made a lite study of the subject they treat of, and give surprising results of mam cases ot nervousness that have been brought to their notice. The book us published bv the Electro-Medical and Surgical Institute, Melbourne. Drs. Freeman, ajid Wallace were formerly surgeons m the Army, and lately were both in practice in the Homoepathic Hospital Melbourne. Both are also professors of electricity.