NOT IN THE PAPERS.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 85, 29 April 1882, Page 101

NOT IN THE PAPERS.

— I ■wonder who contributed the slating articles on Sir George Grey and the Governor, by telegraph. — Really the time lias come for passing a measure to, send every Minister back to his constituents for re-election after taking office. — Mr Pardy has now sufficiently recovered to be able to attend to departmental and other duties. I wish. Pardy -well. — Tom Whewell, of Parnell, is getting a colonial reputation for being the best breaker in of horses in any part of New Zealand. — So, I hear, the Morrinsville-Rotorua Railway route has at last been decided. What does James Stewart, Esq., C.E., say, who gets the five hundred bonus? • — About the middle of next month a grand fashionable wedding 1 takes place in one of our suburbs. Won't there be a flutter when it is known the ceremony takes place. ' — Sergeant (3-amble, I hear, expects to be shortly made a sub-inspector. He is cock sure of it if Brohani is made head " boss." How discontented some public servants are I — It is rumoured that one of the Onehunga belles is going to surprise her lady friends, and having said " Yos " to a very nice proposal, will quietly go and do it. I wish the fair pair unalloyed happiness. — A pretty young man in a city drapery warehouse, and a lovely young lady residing in aristocratic Parnell, are about forsaking what is termed single blessedness. , i ■ — It is pretty generally understood that the Hon. John Hall will immediately resign his seat for Selwyn, and eschew politics for the remainder of his earthly career. — I suppose long ere this Rous Marten, the Wellington correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, i will have achieved the reputation of being one of the most remarkable men in the Colony. , — Mr J. D. Ormond, of Napier, I hear, has 1 wired to ex-Sergeant Kidd to come to Napier at once, and be his private secretary. After this, Kidd will bless the Commissioner. — The "Weights and Measures Inspector should pay a visit to one of our breweries, and ascertain whether the pints and quarts sent out in bottles contain | the right quantum. If he finds an error, he can at- j tribute it to " The Beer Duty." — Mr James JHlworth is getting poor. Our correspondent must be dreaming. He must be referring to the fact that owing to various matters lately, the liberal Dilworth is somewhat pouri. It cannot, however, be over the present complex political situation. — Like some other public bodies, the real representative men of Auckland seem anxious to fight shy of Borough Council honours. Here is a grand "i opportunity for Mr Moss to "elucidate" on local f - government. — Mr Randerson's name, a correspondent informs me, is not on the official List of sharebrokers, and asks for the reasons. My questioner should apply to Mr Joseph Newman, and not to this journal, for the . desired information. — There is a whisper going abroad that a certain newspaper proprietor has an itching for M.L.C. after his ■ ' name. If it is so, ho would soon have as many letters after his signature as the great local architect, Hammond. ■ — Who is the Auckland gentleman whose calling belies his name ? Do yon give it up ? Whiteman, the chimnoy sweep, and Squirrel, another Auckland sweep, ... will wager to climb a chimney quicker than any other mau, —I wonder what Seymour Thorne George, ■ „ M.H.R., went South for ? It was stated in last week's . . Observer that he went to Christchurch to see the v \. Exhibition. I take it otherwise, as it may turn out to >'l-. ; be a most important mission. Cannot Eous Marten tell ? ■':•,. — I have no doubt but the present Cabinet will . . "use Aviro pulling in inducing Macandrew to join their ■ '. .'.', Ministry. I should not wonder if a quiet move was also ;, ,>oixfor Sheehantaking a position with the Government ,c i N just formed. Macandrew is too old a bird to be caught &-• with' ? chaff, and Sheehau would loso political I:,' 'prestige if -he succumbs to the voico of the charmer. Whitaker should do like Gillies, when Superin- ;.?, vtendent— get some member to fesign in his favour. %0^l::>^-' : ---- :^' ■;•■■■*. "■' ' ' . mm-&. ■'.'■--• .:■■;• •> -'■■-- ' ■

— Another hurried move in native lands. Grovernment Surveyors are ordered to accelerate their footsteps to Rotorua, wish a view of completing the survey of some native blocks urgently required for public purposes. I wonder if the particular block is for the residence of Doctor Lewis, a friend of His Honor, the great mogul of these courts, or for any of the land sharks ? , — A pretty young milliner is very wroth at one of our leading legal practitioners not paying her the marked attention now which he exhibited some short time ago, and fears he is doing the amiable to another girl a little higher up Queen-street. If the former lady finds out any other one walking with him there will bo trouble. Let me hope no public exposure will be the consequences. It would not be nice. —Before the Hon. F. Whitaker left theManukau for Wellington, John Lundon suggested that he should go as an attache to the incoming Premier if he wished to remain in office; but the veteran shrugged his shoulders, put up his eye-glass, and said, " Oh, no, Lundon, not at present j no one knows what will happen." John surely believes that Mr Whitaker did not feel happy at going, otherwise he would have put his hands under his coat tails, whichis a certain sign that when he does so he is in what might be termed a capital mood.