It is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 89, 15 March 1902, Page 22

It is Town Talk

— That the remark that Poppa?a in the 'Sign of the Cioss " is played b\ a 'Bonseir" is not slang It is a charming fact — That it is a good thins to know a good shot if he wants an- assistance to spend that pnze inone\ won at Tientham. — That, o\ei in Austulia The Hol> Gitv" means Adelaide, just as Tlie Empire City" in New Zealand mean'; Wellington. — That a man who nevei spoke a word has been fined down South for using 'threatening language." He was a deaf-mute. — That a local re\ ellei , who bought a ticket for Wednesday's phaimacy picnic at Taita, asked the^ sellei it the price "included medicine " — That a good many cables ha\ c gewie Home from Wellington recently for window or balcoin seats from w hich to view the circus — no', the Coronation — piocession. —That nothing m this -sale of tears pays so well as bo-ei The wall ot the late Mr James Coghlan a Ballarat brewer, has iust been pioved at £169,400. — That a now retired local resident is particularly pioud of what he calls his "blue room " From ceiling to floor the walls are papered with magistrate'scourt summonses —That New Zealand }ls H R have done something: practical foi the Empire Out of seven members' sons who went to Africa three ha\e been killed and two wounded — That a recent domestic tiouble m which a wealthy young married woman up North and an ex-bus driver aie the principal parties will come befoie the Divorce Court shortly — That Coronation sightseers fioni Wellington, who have been rathei slow in making up then minds aie now finding out they cannot book passages toi love oi moiiev in P and O 01 Onent liners — That the member of the liades and Laboui Council mu^t be quality ma, for seats in the House Some of the remarks at a leoent meeting would ceitannh do credit to the inn<t wtnohc M H'.R — That the Old Countr\ liave to get the pcioplc of the Pacific to help them in other battles than those of Afnca Just now the House of Commons is fighting influenza with Austiahau eucah ptus — That theie was gieat demand foi the hand and heart ot a fascinating young barmaid in a ciU hotel who got married the other day Just fancy it, three proposal^ within forty-eight hours of the altar ' — That Barnett and Giant, bookmakers, of Dunedin make an income greatel than the salary of the Governor A few years back Giant wa& a successful mile runner and was m am thine but affluent circumstances. — That the Wellington Peace and Humanity Society w ill be hurt to ie.ad that a Wanganui pro-Boer received a ' hammering" foi agreeing with German calumniators The\ will be pleased to lieai the brute who stuck up foi his country was fined ~>s — That Southern J P justice is of a better brand than the Northern kind A man who piodded a bullock with a pitchfork in Cauterbui\ got a month's ' hard " while the Northern horse-burnei was fined 40s Is thene need foi a colonial scale of justace'' — That Westraha claims the colonial record for short-lived Premiers — five in the last five mouth* \ l/; Forrest Thros<-el Leake Moigans and Leake again B^ the same token New Zea.land holds tlie tecoid fo 1 % the longestlived Piemier What about King Diek — nine \eais Premier and gome; st longer than e^ ci 2 -Tliat a local bike dealei has written to Willy Schw eigerliausem the German lournahst touiins, the world oftemig ilnm a present of a bike of his especial biand in return for a word from tint gentleman that he has ndden none other but that kind But can't get a Geiman to stray from the path of rectitude like that — That an impulsne joung woman in quest of some lady friends fresh ly iimed bv stoamei entered the diningroom of a stylish Wellington hotel one day this week, saw her friends at table and rushed over and kissed each one of them The other guests aie still wondering how kisses and roast beef go together.

—That still the harmless flout combine is waxing fatter and loss kind Another 5s per ton on flout Hou Long ah Dick how Long.-' — That Re\ Dutton chaplain of the "Ninth " has sha\ ed oft his beard. He f oared that it uould otheiwise he mistaken tor a white flag " --That Poipe Leo XIII it, the Grand Old Man ot the Twentieth Centun Kntered his innet\ -third -\eai on Sunda\ week with a light heait — That main a woman niarues in the hope ot having a lover, and discover too late that she mereh has a boardei who is most difficult to please — That the new and goigeous oftei b\ tlie Secietar\ for Wai of a cleai shilling a da\" foi Toinim" sliould stn up British patriotism to bin sting point That shutting up Tattei sail's means a lo^ ot £(>() 000 a \eai to the Federal lcvenue But it means an mciease of tour oi h\ c times as much to Ike\ Mo and Co. Let us be joyful — Tha,t some city councillois aie alleged to be interested in the prevention of cruelt\ to animals Are -58 persons (a common load), and a heavj tram a leasonable pull for thiee hoisesP — That the Bothasberg affair lecals the fact that the glorious Seventh was ' this undisciplined mob" who obiected to a,n Imperial martinet tying up some of their comrades to gun w heels — That according to a late Home paper, a friendly rivaln exists, between the English Monarch and his son the Prince of Wales, for the honour of being fiist to have King Dick for a guest — That Point Halswell prisoner Wilson for whom the recent prison inquiry was held, may co'iigiatulate himself on having caused much expenditure of mone\ and time foi no gam to anybody — That, if the poor landlords have to supply those lubbish bins as per by-law. as a sanitary precaution they should be allowed bonuses oi something to keep them from forming a union with a case toi conciliation — That the Palme* -ton Noith Boiough Council has decided to puisue the testa \ c rodent to his lan His favouiite Lvi is the Corpoiation lubbish heap The Coipoiation theiefoie means to s'a\ its own pensioneis — That an electnc s\ ndicate m Taianaki, without asking pei mission ot X M Smith has the temeiit% to attempt to light Haw ei a and othei Taianaki towns with powei fiom the falls at the trot of Mount Egmont - -That Captain Cantle\ of the Jessie Os-hoine. was warmly complimented last week by some of the undeiwntets upon the caieful wav in which his caigo of flax and wool was stowed It was all done undei his own eve — That the King Countiv is quite lemarkable for the number ot cases of sundries" that go theie Someboch m Auckland was recently fined for sending what he called sundries" thither The iecei\er calls it beei — That one Austiahan State Piemiei has just announced, I iefuse to go to London as an extinguished visitoi '" He won't be happ-\ \ou «oe unless he's made a distinguished" one like Oui Dick and Australia's Tob\ . — That if the Wellington Peace and Humaiutv Society (Limited) had their peaceful vvav about 300,000 Britisher would be now floundeung m the sea off Table Mountain with Oom Paul flogging the stiaggleis in with a "sjambok — That a Wellington district papei lematrked of Stipendian Magistiate Haselden's recent accident " that he received no injuries except that he had six or seven teeth knocked out " Piobabh the SM is satisfied it is miui\ enough —That it 16 not absolutely necessai\ to go to sea to be inn in b\ the New Zealand police as a man-o-wai dpf-oit-ei A Christ chinch man was lecently kept in gaol for eight days because he morel v io«enibled a deseutei who is .still at largo — That the. local syndicate which this week puiohased that poition of the Mii-aanai estate which lies to the left of tho cutting — some Vii acres of flat and hill-slopes — got it foi £2(> 230 and on oas\ tennis What a splendid chance the Wellington Cit\ Council has missed —That on the Ruapehu en loute foi Home is a Napiei musician aged 79 | who pla\ed the clanonette at the accession and coionation of Queen Victoria and at the bnth of tho present King He means to play also at the King's Coio nation That dt the Wellington C\ cling Club's looms (>s per day is now the aveiage takings" for billiards Before the deadly swish of the celluloid ball was lieard the average was £1 PmgPong" oiight to receive Puidvaid's immediate attentaoa — That the passengeis on the iailwa\ train between The Gorge and Palmeiston North on a recent afternoon weie much amused at the reflection tin own on the window of the ad loinmg carnage of a picnic party who had taken possession of an empty carriage '