NOT IN THE PAPERS.

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

NOT IN THE PAPERS.

— Already whisperings are going round that Councillor Montague will be our next Mayor. — Mr Joseph Bennett is likely to be appointed Under-SecretSry for the Goldfields Department. — A portion of Mr J. C. Firth's Matamata estate is for sale in England. — Mr Hurst is making rapid preparations for going to the Christchurch Exhibition. — I notice that pious Ewington is again devoting a good deal of his time to church matters. — Mr Ehenfried, of the Thames, I hear, is going in for v grand hotel at Te Aroha Goldflelds. Mr Walker, of the Long Drive, is likely to be the boss. — And. yet there are more native judges appointed. The late under-Secretary, who retired on hia pension, is gazetted ; also Mr Judge Hale. — Mr Tonks, of the Bank of New Zealand, has been removed, and promoted from Cambridge to Gisborne. — Mr John Abbott will be invited to assume the Mayoral chair of the Farnell Borough at the next election. He will then be able to provide the whole money required for drainage and waterworks. — According to a private letter from Wellington, the late Premier nad a majority of one. If Mr Hall resigns his seat it may fall to the lot of the Speaker to decide many important questions until the different vacant seat* upon which the judges have given judgment nro known after the second political fights*

Tli ere appears to be an absence of special wires from the Wellington correspondent of the New Zealand Herald. I suppose Kous has at last, by his action, been routed himself. # „,.■*, —It is stated that the action of the Chief Justice over the West Coast native business will be severely handled by Parliament. Very warm despatches have been received from the Home Office over Parihaka. —Owing to the dissatisfaction -which Mr Horsfall feels ait a recent decision in connection with the last races I am sorry to hear that he has decided never to enter his Quail again for any Auckland race 3. —Mr George Orchard, over four years a clerk m the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Stamps here, and one of those deserving oificials who siiftered by retrenchment, has re-entered the department. — Gradually the Telegraph Department is taking back nearly all the old officials who got the sack over the strike business a couple of years ago. The only wonder is that old Lemon did not do the handsome a long time earlier. — It is about time our present Goyernmenfc appointed a second Eesident Magistrate for Auckland. They might take one of the Native Judges off circuit and allot him the position without any detriment to the public interests. — How is Parliament to be opened— by commission, or by the Governor ? The question is of some, importance, owing to the fact of the Government wanting to get kudos inserted in the opening speech for their splendid management of native affairs. — Mr George Yessey Stewart, of Mount Stewart, has successfully started a fish-curing business, au Katikati. The new indxistry promises to be a permanancy, owing to the abundance of so many kinds of fish in the neighbourhood of Katikati. Mr Stewart has got a capital curer. — The holiday rightly got and enjoyed by the Harbour Board Engineer (Mr MacdonaldJ has wonderfully improved him. He is better for the trip in every respect. Officials should get occasional holidays. The change does them good. — Mr Hally, of Cambridge, Waikato, threatens to commence a new hotel for the Oxford district, but hesitates in anticipation of adverse polling in the Te Aroha district. I hope Mr Hally has got over his attack of bile, consequent upon Mr Montague's business. — If the present Ministry remain in office they will have to modify the amount of the new loan. The Upper House may be inclined to allow three million, but no more. The Government, however, have taken some? precautions to get the five millions. As already five new Lords have been made, more honourables may be gazetted before the House meets this month. — I believe Messrs J. G. Brown, Sheehan and George have consented to act as Opposition Whips* Captain Morris and Mr Wakefield, should the latter gentleman succeed in getting a seat, will be the Government Whips. Mr F. A. Whitafeer, M.H.E. for.Waipa, will assist in the meantime pending a meeting of supposed Government supporters. There will be some fun over the appointment of sessional committees. — How nicely Ministers have managed to get » tender accepted fbr the Waikato railway from Hamilton to Cambridge just before Parliament meets and without even a proper appropriation for the undertaking*. Waipa and Waikato electorates I suppose must be carefully looked after. As I predicted the present Government arc going in for public expenditure in favoured places after the financial year closed. — One of the collectors for the agricultural returns tells me a very good tale about John Chinaman. The enumerator wanted some necessary information; " but for the life of me," he said, " I could not get him to understand a word of what I spoke." His questioner appeared very anxious, and the collector was anxious to get what details he needed. .Suddenly a brilliant idea struck him. Going over to John, he quietly informed him that what he wanted was not for taxing purposes. Our Eastern brother suddenly recovered his speech, spoke English fluently, and at once supplied all informa« tion asked. The occupier of the holding, like our own countrymen, doe 3 not appear to relish the prospect ol any additional public burdens.