It is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 90, 22 March 1902, Page 22

It is Town Talk

—That many a game that is iiot«oith the candle is pla\ed undci olectnc lights -Tliat. though the ret mug Mayor oi Mdro* is a Fiost lie ha,, t «toned to watch the council with a, Keeue" e\e —That all the deai old customs seem Patrick's Da\ ' —That a local politician while tiouatelv to that historic hat That the Times" does not mean to irt&S D ck lose sight of the fact thai oof its directors have subscribed £oO each towards the National Purse. -That thev call Westralia the land of breach of promise over on the othei side " It is the favourite haunt of the j ouug man who changes Ins mind ' -That when Marconi's teleS goTg to a,,,=h »«r « I'"" 1 "™ M lmeman. —That the arst duty of a soldier is obedience. What will happen to the Sh Continent if it doejn obey King Dick's command to eaten w Wet? —That, though the Opposition partv. ■« Georo-e Fisher says, may be <*& exEnotlV'the moa." it has. up to novs always discovered lots of old 'bones to pick. -That Mdlle Antoma Dolores—Tiebelh—who will sing here shortly, is the fortunate possessor of jewellery worth £40 000 including a £20 000 diamond necklace —That the burning question w ith the Wilson Barrett Company just "ow-and esDeciallv the feminine portion thereof— rXethlr they will have to be vacated before leaving Australia fd South Africa. —That still the deadly nicotine works its sad havoc A Southern smoker, who would psisist. after .11 the entaeatu* -of anti-tobacconists, in cremating the -pernicious" weed, has paid the penalU He died aged 100. -That the gold-wiapped cigars , ot Mr. Geo Smith (Wilson Baiiett C omnan- weie in great reoue-st at the de ?«ture of the 8 Waxhora on Saturday afternoon George was content with a cigarette while Ins friends smoked Ins cigars „ -That a serious -t'other side iourual, commenting on the King's threat to serve out titles wholesale during the coronation festivities, suggests that His Alaiestv should get an auctioneei s Ee and sell honours to the highest bidders. —That after the little Ohristchuich yp*>hvr wluch stood houses on their roofs and had the temerity to overturn even the Salvation Army + Barrack J\ elImgton may be deemed to have lost : its ie P utation as the windiest town m Zealand —That a New Zealander had a narrow escape recently, when captured by bS Having a beard, they took him for me of their oun men who had 'gone h*rk on them " They wanted to kiH him but as he couldn't speak Dutch, he was 'released He is shaved now. —That thiee of the lieutenants ot the Southern battalion of the Ninth got married to the laches of their choice within a fw days of the tioopship learns Port Chalmei-s. They weie evidently determined to make sure of the girls they were leaving behind them ° —That some ot the political ladies are moving in the direction of women lUiors. aiui »oraeii Js P Thev die nuite sure tliat their sex would adorn the Bench and clothe work a great deai better than many of the old women who aie alread\ on the Commission ot the Peace. -That vide Post." 'Frank FiLhs, of cnous reknown in. Australia as, a leading lady of Mr. George Rignold s cornpan v for some years, has. aftei a bnet sta\ in Pans, gone to London to tiy hoi luck on the English stage We hope Frank's good luck wall follow him \i hen she trios' the legitimate " That a well-known Lambton Quay ■moi chant was trying to impress on one of the Wellington Smiths the othei day that the great Smith fanuh is not as old as it pretends to be, and that its power is comparatively modern He clinched his aigumont b\ quoting Samuel l \eise 19 Theie was no Smith found thioughout all the land of Israel "

—That a clever child 111 a local school defined a bank as, aplaeo whore mothei takes out what tabher puts in" That the Wellington, hrcbells ate almost as regulai as the town clock ami the billet ot pu>te.ssiona,l f\\o-M«o»c lum is no smeeuie That a, local dentist is, spoken r>l ,i.s makmg an uicoiue ot £'1000 a \eai Theie seems to be something in gumdigging aftei all - -x^hat it ha,s been laid down m the Auc|[l and Police C'ouit that oichaul lohbin«is no crime so long as the fruit i<not intended foi sale That since the Gennan bioken reed" calumn\ applications tiom GeimA in m New Zealand foi naturalisation papeis have mciea-sed gieatK That theie aie difFeient wa\s ot making a na\ \m\ i<-ible Gieat Bnt,uu is panitnui hei '•hips khaki bpani tried fighting and it woiked That, up to date, it will not be necessan to chartei a ship foi the big ciush of Wellington lady teacheis anxious to teach m the African concontiation camps. —That Rifle Champion Hyde ha-s a cousan m the Land Valuation Department who is just now wrestling with the problem of how to squeeze a champion valuation out of Waihi — That the ultrargoodies who piotest against Sunday bands should turn then attention to Sunday trams (with a sixtv-pa-ssenger load), or take up the oa.se of the street corner hoodlums — That a few people are grizzling ovei the departure of a young gentleman by a recent Svdnev steamer. But the most grieved is the young w oma,n who had leposed hei affections in ham — That a sergeant of the Ninth being doubtful whether he had distributed rifles to all the men, paralysed the foiee last week by calling out, "All you that are without arms hold up your hands '" That the latest fancy of a certain society widow, who wishes to emphasise the fact that slip ha,s not foi gotten the late lamented, wa& to seive up sandwiches tied tastefully with black ribbon That the masJiers who blossom forth m golf kniokers and se\ eral pairs of stockings, for the sake of artistic effect will be pleased to hear that a local finn is doing a line of patent oalves at 2os per pan . — That, in Mew of the fact that m future prohibited persons will be sent to a lunatic asylum for a year if the* 'break out,'' kindhearted people who supph the lunatic lovers of liquid should ponder That sixty-one yeais in gaol is the proud record of a recently-released Victorian • gaol-bird " This is onh his colonial record He had been a constant guest at Government expense previously at Home That the rumoui that a riding school will be attached to the "House" for the use of membeis, to prevent the "falling off" that take<s place when legislators are doing the back country is not tiue. but it ought to be —That it doesn't seem exactly light that a brewei who supplies beer to a oamp canteen should sit on the bench and send a man who was drunk in that camp to gaol for a month This is a paradox that could only happen in New Zealand . —That the keen business acumen ot Colonel Collins, to whom much of the success of thrf? Trentham rifle meeting is due and his large service to defence matters generally should be his best qualification for command of the BisleA shooting team. -That a young woman, who was employed in a suburban post-office at Sydney has come in for a foi tune of four million pounds, left her by some dim and distant relative. Four millions' Won t the young man next door kick himself foi missing that plum? --That the Miramar Fern' Company are negotiating with an Auckland builder for a new steamer to cam /OO passengeis Ferrv competition promises to be bmkei than ever next sea,son. for the Wellington Feirv oompan\ are also getting up steam