GISBORNE

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 82, 8 April 1882, Page 57

GISBORNE

Doesn't Mrs P. look nice in her cream, dress with, black lace and cream roses ? ■ Miss H., late of Auckland, and Mr S. will make a nice pair. : Miss Hannah G-ardener, of Auckland, is here, but has not yet created much of a sensation. ! Mr M. has started on his own hook. Here is a catch for somebody. ; Why don't some of the young ladies take pity bn those lonely bachelors, C. and J ? ! Mr T. B. is getting the cage ready ? Where is the bird ? i The moral Whitmore is down for a share in a big Maori block. ; Cl-annon and Bees' may sometimes be seen within a mile of each other. A good many of the young men are sighing because Miss W\, of. Auckland, is engaged. She always dresses with such taste. The County Council are raising a £7000 loan. They will thus be able to vote their own travelling expenses to the Christchurch Exhibition. Coleman is turning over the bones of Read's estate and Bob Cooper is shaking the clapper at him. It is said that Rees has had a slice out of it. The Melbourne shareholders of the Petroleum Company were old birds, and the local wirepullers failed in an attempt to put salt on their tails. The Victorians refused to " part." Caj>tain Kerr, the new ink-slinger of the Standard, has drawn down on his devoted head vials of wrath from the City Fathers by advocating the necessity for water supply.