NEW PLYMOUTH.

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 78, 11 March 1882, Page 408

NEW PLYMOUTH.

|. j ' " man at the corner " notice a cheese I Jftra '^swimming pond the other morning? 1 ' : - -isings. There is a rising in the |: >*■ ?.***. account of the great drought, I I : i«j %iah "ihle rise in meat; there is | ; |fce ctf Ufa * • s tion of tlie Obsbbvbb.

During a discussion on the " larrikin " nuisance recently, one of our local J.P.s mercifully remarked: "We must not be too severe' on them. I suppose I was as big a fool as any of them when I was young." " Yes," retorted the other J.P., " and you are not an old man now."

The iron-sand works have been offered for the sum of one thousand pounds, and a very powerful committee formed to raise the necessary sum for the purchase of the same, and an additional sum of one thousand pounds, with which to start the smelting of the iron. Little Tubal Cain has received the cold shoulder in the affair.

The shades of night were falling fast, As into Brougham-street they passed, With list a tradesman to entice, Out for a holiday — so nice. " Now, come," said Richard, " come and sign,' " And let us close your shop and mine ;" But still he answered, with a sigh, " I will not close my shop, not I, I'll write to the papers immediately."

The scandal spoken of last week is being kept tolerably quiet ; why, it is not at all understood. The person implicated is a member of the A.C. Force, a near relative of all the crowned heads of Europe, and, I think, Asia and Africa. Several members of the Force have lately missed sums of money in an unaccountable manner, and my high lineaged gentleman was accused of " caking " the same on very strong evidence. He confessed to the thefts, adding that he was only " taking care "of the money for them. He was forthwith discharged from the Force.

The cricketers cannot understand the apathy of the fair sex in their noble game. I am sure they (the ladies) might travel further and not find such a really well-favoured lot of youths as generally do battle for Taranaki. Varying in height from 6ft. 2in. to 4ft., a stranger would imagine no one outside those dimensions would be at all likely to attract spectators. The cricketers themselves are very much disheartened at the absence of the ladies, and many sighs — not a few of which, it is to be hoped, were not noticed by the recording angel — were heard a few days ago at the cost of the perfumes, pretty belts, etc., invested in by the marriageable (self -fancied, of course), portion of the team.

A rather smart thing was done the other day by a dealer in musical instruments. A noted Boniface, wishing to become the possessor of a piano, entered into negotiations with the man of savage beast soothers, who recommended a choice instrument at thirty-five guineas. The publican agreed to purchase, and offered to pay £2,5 by cheque, and the balance of £10 in three months. The other agreed to this, conditionally, on receiving a cheque for the full amount, and giving a cheque in return for £10. This was done, and the speed with which the man of music travelled to the bank was a caution to snakes. The big cheque was duly cashed, but not so the other. Boniface is the happy possessor of a bit of marked paper.