WAIKA TO WHISPERINGS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 66, 17 December 1881, Page 214

WAIKA TO WHISPERINGS

— T. Wells' carrier contemplates designs on the heir to Mount Pleasant. A sly dog, Charley. — I licar the committee of the coining concert contemplate asking Dick to treat the audience to a Highland fling on the ancient principle. — The war correspondent of a Cambridge publication went to the front at Maungatautauri on Friday last, and, whether through having had a brush with the natives or some extraordinary abnormal development, came home almost minus his unmentionables. — Currie and Jones, I hear, have decided on halving the baking' business of ' Duke-street. Carrie bus had his four-roomed domicile finished and furnished, and the vegetable and flower garilen put in working trim. The event may therefore be looked forward to at no distant date. ■ — The prediction of J. B. Why to when addressing his constituents at Cambridge is already coming to pas 3. Ned and the once prominent worthy good chief and worshipful master of teetotal humbuuisin at Cambridge were known — well, not altogether to kiss each other, but to rub noses in a figurative sense over the result of the Wsiipa electiou. —For a piece of impudent dishonesty of the boldest kind commend us to the action of the Weekly Wli'daker and Vulcan Lnnc Tripe IKrnp, which, after receiving £5 from Major Jackson for the insertion of his election address, deliberately suppressed it for several weeks in succession. "The Majah " went to discuss this peculiarity with the ostensible proprietor while in Auckland, and was told the omission was nil accident ! "Of course," he says, " I believed that, more especially when I remembered that Fred Whitaker was my opponent. Ahem!!!" — [We don't believe Mr F. Whitnker had anything- to do with this petty piece of chicanery — in fact when he hears of it he will probably cry, " Save me from my friends." — Ed. Observer.] — I now find from actual observation- — though believe me not from personal experience— that a strong connubial desire and loving attachment to the fair sex is insuppressible. That enamoured draper's assistant of Duke-street, to whom I referred last week, learning from a junior member of the family that the old coux>le ■were from home, went sniffing around the verandah -post of the cabinet warehouse, in hopes of an interview with Julia. Seeing the enraged brother (who had on previous occasions demonstrated his strong lilial attachment) peeping out from behind an upstairs window, his face expressive of no good intention, he beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately so for two youngsters who were just passiug at the time, as the indignant brother, thinking it was his friend, tipped a great bucket of very cold, though confessedly not very clean, water on the two little waifs as they passed. Harry, who observed the dodge and escaped the consequences, chuckled stentoriously, and left his disappointed enemy to mend his accident as best he could. — -Men's merits rise in proportion to their modesty, but their demerits become apparent through their impudence and stern effrontery. A little front is indispensable to all men, but when an individunl becomes all front and nothing else, wise men naturally introduce repressive measures to protect themselves from being the subject of unwarrantable imposition. A gentleman (!) whose name as a cantatrice has become popular throughout Cambridge, was desirous of learning the clarionet. With, this object in view he negotiated with a local fleshmongerr of high pugilistic ability for the purchase of an instrument, which he was successful in obtaining possession of on condition that he was to pay some few shillings monthly by way of liquidating the debt until the same was paid up in its entirety. Six months were allowed to pass, but the price of the clarionet still remained in the coffer of the purchaser. The other day the noble warbler, armed with the instrument, entered the shop of its real owner and politely returned the article with an obsequious grace, at the same time informing his friend that (after six months' trial) he had rued his bargain, and was about to retire, when — When that 'ere cruel butcher-man, who from his seat had rose, Let drive at that 'ere music-man, and bled his mouth and nose. Special medicines for children, infants' food, feeding bottles, nursing shields, enemas, waterproof sheeting, bandages, belts, and all kinds of appliances may be obtained at the English Pharmacy, 184, Queenstreet. Gardner, M.P.S., Eugland, Family Chemist.