PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 86, 6 May 1882, Page 116

PERSONAL

— Alf Whitaker has gone to Gisborne on biz. — Alf . Vernon has gone to Greymouth. — Why has the r>e\v chum ceased to meet his inamorata at Freeman's Bay ? — Why does not Saunders attend the Ponsonby liops ? . —Barry, the elocutionist, is working up liis class for grand public entertainments — Charles Bright now speaks without notes, and is doing well in America. — Brierley says he and Worthington will have to settle their little differences in another way. — Mr J. M. Dargaville has been visiting Gisljorne. —Mr Hopkins will be missed at Waipu this ■year. — Poor Sinclair could not attend the last football match because his eyes were in full mourning. Taite also appeared with similar marks of woe. — What does Brown, the Mangare milkman, do with those rats that he takes home in his cart from town? — Is it true that J. Fergusson is to be Worthy Chief of the new Good Templars' Lodge at JEllerslie ? — Sam F., publicly announces his determination to " get switched " to one of the rosy-cheeked maidens of Ellerslie. — The Vincent- street young lady who has been in the habit of waving her handkerchief has discontinued the practice. — Whangaroa Charley is a great lady-killer but the half-caste declines his overtures. He will have to bachclorise a sliorfc time longer. —The famous opera bouffeprima donna, Puttie Xaverne, will probably return to the colonies shortly with a specially selected troupe. Dr Seth Sam who died at Forbes, Australia, the other day, was, in the early days, one of the Thames Representatives in the Provincial Council. —We hear that the charming widow of Parnell lia3 made it up with the American gentleman near Kamo. —Mr C. • Wright, the lucky builder who won iBIOOO in an Australian sweep, left for Melbourne the other day in order to bring home the money. He took his family with him. —Mr H. W. Ferguson, the stalwart accountant of the branch of the Union Bank at the Thames, lias come to Auckland. The tears of Shortland's damsels are not yet dry. __A young lady at Wainui threatens to expose the name of the person who removed a young lady's jacket from the school-house, if the article fee not returned. Mr Harry H. Hayr, for a long time purser in the employ of the Union Company, is now freight clerk aboard the R.M.S. Zealandia, and a Tory popular officer. —Captain Scott, late of the merchant service, las purchased a station within 19 miles of this city. He went home per Zealandia in February And returns with his family immediately. —Mrs B. Johnston, of Upper Symonds-street, ' gave a very nice party last Wednesday week. ■/.uEhere were about a dozen couples present, and ' dancing was kept up till two in the morning. •'. ' : ~A. young, telegraphist, recently transferred £rpm a northern station, is said to hare left his S ;l#art in keeping with a pretty little half-caste girl

— A young lady writes to say that she is in no hurry to marry just yet, because there would be no fun in spooning if all the fellows meant business. — Mr William Alexander McArfchur, nephew of ex-Lord Mayor McArthur paid a visit recently to Auckland. He has just been admitted into the firm of ¥m, McArthur and Co. He returned to England via San Francisco by the Australia. — The Browns swear they will make a success of their new Tauranga paper or perish in the attempt. They have bought a cow, a quantity of fishing-tackle, and ploughed up a. piece of ground for potatoes and cabbages. — An anomynous Tauranga correspondent sends us an epistle that is meant to be very sarcastic re Captain Stevenson, late of the 66th Eegt. of the Line . In fact our correspondent is only prevented by business engagements from swimming after the captain, and going for his scalp. Ho calls Stevenson "the pseudo captain," swears that the hero's name does not appear in any army list of any date, thinks the moral atmosphere of Tauranga will be purified by his departure, and that the last season the captain received in civility has caused him to level his charges from a safe distance. This is severe. — A lady wants to know why the man who goes round with the plate in St. Matthew's Church does not take an end seat, instead of one in the centre ? Because, in his struggles to get past the ladies, his " corn-crushers " cause much pain. — The Misses Bleazard of Mount Eden have returned from a visit to the Thames. These young ladies, who contribute to the London Graphic, have taken some nice views of the picturesque scenery about (xrahamstown. ■ — Mr JVC. Spinley, of Lome-street, and Miss Annie King, of Orakei Eoad, Eemucra, were married on the 27th at the United Methodist Free Church, corner of Pitt and Vincent-street. The happy couple went to the Thames to spend their honeymoon. — Willie E. says he wanls to get married. He has £150 in Ihe Savings Bank, receives a salary of £175 a year, is economical — very economical, and his arms are open for any nice girl who will rush into them. What a chance for Beresfordstrcet damsels ! — The really very excellent portrait in oil of Tawhiao, the' Maori King, by Mr Samuel E. Keesing, has been removed to Mr Upton's, where the better light enables it to be seen to greater advantage than in the Choral Hall.