PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 81, 1 April 1882, Page 38

PERSONAL

— Judge Wilson returned from Tauranga on Friday- „ 1 — Father Gavaral is on his way to Sydney in ' the Rotorua. — Professor Fraser is lecturing to poor houses at Napier. — Angelo Forest has taken his departure for Lyttleton. — Jem Mace has been declared insolvent in - Melbourne, at the instance of his butcher. — It is rumoured that Mr Sheehan will be appointed head of the Opposition. — Mr Sedden, M.H.R., has arrived in Auckland. He is going to the Kawau. — Mr F. A. Whitaker has suddenly returned . from Wanganui. Whats up ? — Chief Justice and Mrs Pendergast left for Wellington by the Te Anau on Friday. — Mrs Hampson is evangelising at Christchurch and is drawing large crowds nightly. — Who was the mean thief who stole the feather out of a lady's hat at a.recent ball ? — Capting Barry talks of coming up North on -a " lecturin' tower." Save your eggs. — Does not that eesthetic youth look "too utterly utter " in his new Sydney slop clothes ? — Captain McKenzie, of Matahui, Katikati, was - a passenger for the old country by the Rotorua. — Mr Finn, ex M.H.R. for Whakatipu has setttled in Gisborne, and is practising as a solicitor. — Millie and Violet looked very nice last Sunday in new cream dresses, and hats to match with ruby feathei'3 in them. — Walter Dignan has formally announced his intention to become an author. The next thing is to succeed. — There is no truth in the report that Mr - Severn, of the Bank of New Zealand, has chal- • lenged Jem Mace. — Messrs. Sheehan and F. A. Whitaker are likely to dissolve partnership in May. No more . Pateteres in hand. — Mr J. C. M. Gibson, of the Herald, has been appointed bookkeeper to the Thames Newspaper and Printing Company, Limited. A marriage took place on the 22nd March between Oliver Charles Haines, of Paparoa, and Mary Jane Goodall, of the same place. — Why do so many of the passengers by Ton- . gariro require new hats ? Fenton says trade is looking up since the boat began to run. — Who is the young lady in a certain suburban choir who laces up her boots in church, in order to display her magnificent red stockings ? Miss Stone was to christen the schooner " Clarinda,": but did not break the bottle in time and a gentleman present had to do the " business." — Mr E. J. Duncan, of Wellington has been appointed to the staff of the Royal Commission on Volunteer matters now sitting in Auckland. — Mr Prime's testimonial to Professor Ghiscott is a prime example of his qualifications for the position of a member of the Board of Education. — We are glad to see that Miss V. S.,of Parnell, has quite recovered from her fall, and we hope the young lady is none the worse for the accident. — Poor M. Gr. has fallen under the displeasure of a certain Hobson-street tea-merchant, who accuses him of writing a certain paragraph to this paper. The tea-man is out for once. — It was .not nice for that young couple to fall asleep on Volkner's doorstep, Grey-street, when the people were wending their way homewards from a recent ball. — Charles Watt, one of the prominent " lockout " agitators, has resumed work at the U.S. and D. Co.'s factory. . His action is condemned by his late fellow workman in no mild language. — Spurgeon, sen., raised £2450 in four days by a bazaar for his Girls' Orphanage. Young Spur- - geon wants £8000 for his new church.. Why doesn't he follow in the footsteps of his dad ? — The soprano of a certain musical society would be so glad if one of the tenors would remember that the voice should come through the mouth, and not the nasal organ. Willy Swanson was the first to greet Major Atkinson on his arrival at Onehunga on Tuesday. Swanson got the straight tip as to the time when . Atkinson would reach' the Manukau. — Mr J. C. Firth does not deny the Boft impeachment .that he is author, of " weighed in the balance." The title is said to have occurred to him when he was engaged weighing out seme of his "Best flours." — The young chemist has been seized with a sudden piety. He goes to church every Wednesday evening, and afterwards, in company with a devout young lady, passes hours in contemplating the picturesque beauties of Mechanics' Bay. — No wonder Bunny was unable to predict when the Volunteer Land Claims Commission will close its labours. Dick Feltus intends to occupy the Commission for a month or two, and requires at least a whole Commission to himself. — Captain and Mrs Ashby left for Englard by City of Sydney. The main' object of the captain's visit to New Zealand was to satisfy himself of its condition and prospects, so to enable him to give reliable advice to his numerous clients 'at home. — Poor Harris ! When he was stumping the country he gloried in his share in passing the Corrupt Practices' Act, but considered it hardly strong enough, and thought that there should be imprisonment without the option of a fine. -How does he like it so far as he has got ? — A correspondent thinks he has found the champion mean man of the East Coast in the person of a man who, having won £30 at billiards, declared next morning that he had been robbed, and stuck up a sixpenny drink, though before the bank opened he inadvertently pulled out a roll of notes from his pocket. , — McKenzie, of the Northern Luminary, came ..: tip fa: town to avoid an interview with twogentley men armed, with . horsewhips. " Since his stay in -Auckland, . however, Mac. has taken private lessons from Jem Mace, and he goes back to */• Eaws&aWa -perfectly confident in Ms ability to : giver^gbodj account of any troublesome mter- ■'' yi^wers".^.*^'-; y T . >• ."■>■.. .. -—Miss, Rhodes, who has just come into a life : ihtei'est of £300,000, is the only daughter of the

late" Barney Rhodes,"who commenced as a bullock driver. The young lady is a handsome half caste. Hundreds of swells have at various times , made a desperate bid for her and the dollars, but in vain. She says she will not have any fellow who does not marry her for love ; and any young man who comes humming around is put through his facings. Johnny Sheehan once entered for the stakes, but landed an outsider. — McKenzie, who supplies the literary light for the Iniminart/, has been distinguishing himself. Ho was sauntering along Queen-street the other day in search of a stray ad., when a perambulator rolled backwards into the street, and would have been run over by a horse and vehicle had not Mac. promptly dashed to the rescue. The mother was engaged sampling a new Gainsborough hat with a big feather, and when the gallant Mac, restored her darling little innocent, and explained how he had rescued the baby from the jaws of death at the peril of his life, and at the risk of extinguishing the light that has so long illumined the benighted bucolicdom of Kawakawa, the lady shewed her false teeth and smole a smile that set Mac's aorta thumping violently against his ribs. This is the fifteenth baby that Mac. has saved from destruction, to say nothing of his other services in connection with infantile productions, and he ought at least to get the Humane Society's medal.