It Is Town Talk

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 172, 17 October 1903, Page 22

It Is Town Talk

— That a Little mid-island paper calls Sir Edmund Barton a sccwd "poison (puisne) judge. — That an articie on rhubarb is inadvertently held over. The comp. made "pi" of it. —That) there will be a JmlJ* members when the Public Works Estimates come down,. There is nothing to divide this year. —That tihe rapidly-increasing size of Kilbirme entitles it to a, water supply. Most of the tanks went dry last week during the "drought." — That drought-stricken Ajahburton is come in for wholesale cleanliness It 7s establishing a soap factory. Strong point for the Prohibitionists. —That the fate of the poetaoal sheepstealer, who was sent to gaol for twelve months by Mr. Justice Cooper, should be a warning to alleged poets. —That George Musgrove pays Edward Laun £40 per week as a comedian. This is "the other" Laun. The real one, at the same rate, would be worth £1000 a week. That pressmen partaking in the giddy revels at the Hutt on Sunday aire requested to assiduously practice rope quoits on Saturday afternoon. The ''Post" has a ''dark horse." —That the bump of "hope" is specially large m the cranium of Councillor Charlie Izard. He expects the electric car service to be completed in twentyfour years. Impatient man. — 'That Taranaki has some bad roads. A business man, who had to shoiw accounts in the District Court, tore the leaf out of his ledger as he could not carry the book over the heavy roads. — That Wellington roads have been too much for most of the motor oars that a month or two ago buzzed noisily about Many of them are hibernating, and the owners have fallen back on horseflesh . —That a bucket brigade of eveomigdressed young men put out a fire in an up-country town last week. "Uncle," at the sign of the triple globes, who has a vested interest, in those clothes, is therefore in despair. — That the injustice of the no-license law m KiJbirme was very apparent to the ' Post" and ' Times" w alkers on Saturday last The despairing and drought-stricken, gaze they cast on the closed doors were heartrending. — That it is a good idea to leave Wellington churches onen all day, as suggested recently. What about an incieased police force? Perhaps, however, tihe treasurer would take the offertory boxes home with him. — That the new grocer, who intended to say in his advertisement that "everything is well under weigh," has been temporarily demented by the glaring notice, traceable to the oomp. that "everything is well under weight " —That it was a seveie disappointto hundreds of spectators to find that Bob Bannister, of the "Tunes," did not enter for the newspaper "w alk " on Saturday la&t. The athletic Kelly also was not in the luaning. Wherefore, oh bard s — That the Sceneiy Preservation Society, now it has the permission of the Council to put a track over Mount Victoria, might ask them to allow it to grub out the funereal and scrubby fiis in Keat Terrace. Even weatherboards aac piettier. — -That escaping gas pitfalls, mud, and men with long-handled shovels, opening up our most-used footpaths, piove that the Council does not study thf piesent convenience of the public It takes a long time to start the Council but w hen it gets going — Phew ' — That, while the City Council is endeavouring to enforce the cleanliness of dames, it should see to it that cows do not stand m two feet of mud previous to being milked One has but to take a stroll thiough the suburbs to appreciate the necessity for drastic refoim — That Councillor Charlie Izard says that if the Council has a rule it should stick to it It has a lule about the smoke nuisance It also has the smokiest destructor chimney in New Zealand, and pemits 1 traction engines and steam-rollers in narrow streets in mid-day. — That, Providence evidently wants to save Felix Tanner's life Notwithstanding that Felix by hanging and perilous navigation, seems anxious to lose it His sailing tub has, been towed back to New Plymouth, after being in difficulties but Felix is not disheartened. He intends to try again, if the authorities will allow him.

—That a big hotel joint slock company notation is on the tapis in Wellington — That the Arbitration Court is \\ea,img a tared look already. But the fun in tins district is only re-commencing. That one or two notable picluies in the Ait Exhibition wore painted with the pussy cat's tail after the gas wa& turned out. — -That a near-by paper piously hopes that the "whole licensing question will be defiled by law this session." It possibly means "defined." That there is more apparent inebriation in Newt own than there was before the hotels were closed. Of course, they get the liquor m the city. —That the McLean Brothers, who have got the big contract for the Railway Whairf extension, are becoming known as the men who "made" Wellington. — That there is an accident insurance ring. Also, that the Government is in it. No doubt, if the Government owned a flour-mill , it would soon be in the milling trust. — That the motor-car agents from the other parts of the colony aie making a descent on Wellington. They ought to start operations by getting tihe Huttroad put in order. ■ — That some of the English regiments will ruin themselves by their liberal contributions to our Veterans' Home. Second Cheshire gave' £3, and Second East Yorkshire £2. — That Wellington is w inking the other eye at Dick Seddon in the role of jt& friend, vide his insistence on the £ for £ subsidy for the Wadestown Domain. But, where was George Fisher 0 — That the man who was adveitised in the "Post" as wanting to buy a dog has had 237 applications, and they are still coming in. The advertisement was inserted by some of his friends as a practical joke. — That the people who are agitating for Bible-reading in schools ought to add Bible-reading on the golf-links to their programme. Upw ards of three hundred players at a certain resort on a recent Sunday. — That, if Chamberlain is as rumoured, in constant communication with his friend and adviser, E. M. Smith, the fact in some degree accounts for the brilliance of his ideas, and the headway his propaganda is making. — That Robm Hay, who is now with Dixs in Wellington, was recently a. commercial traveller in Auckland, and has; occasionally appeared in amateur comic opera in tht't city. His wife is with the chorus of Musgiove's Opeia Company. — That illegal operations by quacks and women specialists aie going out of fashion. A ' new idea" is being sold freely by the local chemists. One local doctor had seven serious cases m one day last week as a consequence of the new idea. — That Mi. T E Donne, having made an offer to place his Maou house and curios at Rotorua pro bono pubhoo, it is "up to" some of Wellington's wealthy citizens to follow suit, and give Wellington a museum that w ill not be a iep:oach. — That ainothctr newspaper walking content is on the tapis. The competitors, v, o aie assured, aie "Bob" Bannister and J. L. Kelly, who stood out of the last contest, from motives of consideration for the "Post" staft On st^le, J L Kelly is the fa\ounte