OBSERVER’S OBSERVATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 302, 9 October 1880, Page 2

OBSERVER’S OBSERVATIONS.

Going down the town early one morning I accidentally dropped across an old identity. Did he ask me to shout? He did ; but I wasn’t on. Oh no, I never imbibe so early in the morning, and I ventured to say so. Another old identity happening to be passing by was asked his opinion re uobblerising so early in the day. Says he, “ Well, if the thing is any good at all, it cannot be taken too early, nor in too large a quantity.” This, too, from a pillar of the church.

Post Office officials are often sorely troubled by puzzling and indistinct addresses on letters, and it certainly ought to be said to their credit that no pains are ever spared in a search for (he person to whom a letter is directed. The following, which is taken from a paper recently arrived from home, is a sample of what they have sometimes to encounter, was the address which passed through the local office : Mrs——— was Mrs——• husband a collier was killed Masbro 2 miles from rotherliam or near Sheffield in the umbrella trade.

Did you go to h ar Captain Jackson Barry 1 1 did, and some queer things I heard, which, if true, fully justify him in publishing the book which forms the principal groundwork of his lecture. Fancy riding three days and three nights on the back of a whale, the said whale’s back being covered with “ barnacles.” I imagine poor “Jonas’s” position inside would be much more safe and comfortable. However, we have the “Captain’s” word that “he did so,” and what more do we require.

I noticed in one of your contemporaries that the “ Wairarapa dairy ” has come out in an enlarged size, and they aie glad to observe it. So am I. I have my eye on a certain small dairy farm, which I should be glad to see come out in an “ enlarged size.”