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Observer, Volume 4, Issue 82, 8 April 1882, Page 58

—-O'Brien, the long-distance runner, is by profession a schoolmaster. ... .!.,,.. * -7-C?oloneL Dawson, Green way 's . son-in-laWi is building, ja . £2000 house at Ellerslie. _.-.-,• '~TKe Australian running men refused £40 for the' gates, on Saturday. . .. . — Miss-Deylin has returned from the South, and looks all the better for her trip. — :Why did that young lady at the select danc-ing-class, Newton, slam the door violently in the faces of those young men? • '*'*"' . — The Colonial Treasurer doesn't contribute muck to -tlie JJeyeTme. He, is a stannet. tee-totaller, and an anti-smoker. ' : —St; Clair. Tisdall has 'the spiritual charge of" Walcefield, near Thnaru; He hasn't been writing any hexameters recently. — Why don't the City Council do something to stop the disgusting overflow from that urinal at the foot of Grrey-sfcreet? — Carrie Godfrey is a .native of the land of wooden nutmegs. She goes thither by the next mail steamer. — The spectacle of Croesus with his coat off cutting fern at Hunua, was a sight for gods and men. However, he saved a man's wages. —Ask Edwin J. Carr what was the matter with , his chimney on the morning after his marriage ? He is a sweet, good-tempered soul, and will ba glad to gratify your ouriosity on the subject. —Mr P. H. Robertson, formerly of Auckland, and lately on the Whanganui Chronicle, has joined the literary staff of the Christchurch Telegraph. ■^Who were the married couple who were refused lodgings at the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, the other day. Pompey says they would nevah dar ' to go there again. —The New .Zealand Insurance Company , imagined a vain thing when they setxip that vane. It always points to the N.E. We are not i' the vein for making jokes on the thing. — Constable Douglas, who has just been transferred from Auckland to Wellington is Major Atkinson's brother-in-law. And only a common constable too J How's that, umpire ? — Thompson, the band contest man made himself a great, favourite with the small boy element at the Domain on Saturday, by inaugurating . a series of scrambles for apples and ginger-ntits. — In the Press v. Stage Cricket Match Jem Mace was rendered hors de combat by a hit from a cricket ball just below the belt. The renowned pugilist says Thompson " don't get him playing in no more cricket matches;" — Mr Hemus asserts there is nothing like leather, so is tramping all over the country to test his own workmanship. Gurrett Bros, intend to advertise for the present whereabouts of the wandering Jew in order to start him in opposition. ' — We are officially authorised to contradict the rumour that the object of Major Atkinson's visit to the Kaipara sawmills was to study log-rolling in view of the next session of Parlinient. He finished his education in this branch of political science long ago. —Robert Atkinson, who haunted the lobbies of the House of Representatives for several years in succession with a petition, has issued a leaflet, headed "An ex-Civil Servant's grievance," "Startling disclosure," "Fac simile of evidence." . Whether he' will take anything by his motion remains to be seen. — A certain snapper-up of unconsidered trifles in the shape of sauerkraut, German polonies, and book debts, has been venting his spleen against some of his quondam friends by spreading, stories damaging to their credit. One of the sufferers threaten to dust him down with a horsewhip. — Major Atkinson has not squared Mitchelson after all. The Premier having been dragged about at the chariot wheels of the mighty Hobbs. the representative of the giundiggers and sawyers was to be similarly honoured. Heu! Ministers have hurried bag and baggage to Wellington, and Mitchelson is disapointed. How now ? — Mr Winny Gudgeon, a great favourite amongst the Ponsonby people a year or two back, and more recently Thames agent, for the Union Bank, has resigned his position. He intended embarking in business on his own account, but, ■ finding that hope had told too flattering a tale, he gave up the project and accepted the agency at Quartzopolis.of our morning contemporary. — Before Judge Macdonald's elevation to the woolsack, he was a lawyer, at the Thames, and was perhaps the most popiilar man on the goldfield. He was at one time Mayor, captain of a volunteer company, superintendent of a fire brigade ; he was also an ardent cricketer, could " sprint " a 100 yards in nine seconds, and was equally great at marriages, funerals and flower shows. What a lot of things you have to give up to become a judge. —Alderton has come to grief at last. The straw that broke the camel's back was his receiv-' ing a summons from Tom. Philson for a P.N., which he (Alderton) gave on behalf of a partner five years ago. It's pretty " rough "on Alderton, as, on leaving Whangarei, he was presented with a purse of sovereigns, with which he furnished his hxrase. This, which is his only asset, the JWorthevn Advocate being secured under bill of sale, he has had to give up to his creditors. — Among the })etitions before' the Volunteer Land Claims Cominision is one from Mr Brodie, of the .Thames. Mr Brodie served in the Royal Engineers throughout the Waikato, campaign, and on leaving the service was entitled to 80 acres of land. He neglected to prefer a claim, and though he has frequently visited Wellington to shepherd the claims of his- district, he has, with a degree of modeßty which no one would have given him credit for, abstained' from pressing his pei'sonal interests. > No iwpnder" Bunny laughed when Brodie stated this ith^o.ther; day.. ; : , ; , ; , —The" Grand BasHaw" has riot now got it all his owijuiway- in"; school; '-matters.* ' His . ground is '- : graduglty^ 'getting uriderminedi'. and hence, his ' , :^!,^f|3|^Mfeßr?tp the Sjar. last-week re .Burfcon'3 f ;aoT^^|^ip;Bv^;'rDid\ the /Basha^r, :> acknowledge silisilj^l^ for not jtiis scholars ' ;if prleven-six^ntos^ ,• Three-sjaccessf ul chicks but :::;p| r v fifty-eigh s fc||^;;s.e^nn £lßß^ and three out of ■A|j«l^«^^a^^l^^ee^!»^many' yeare, ]''/•' ,'- : "'■"[''