Personal

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 89, 27 May 1882, Page 166

Personal

— Miss Russell will shortly visit Sydney. — M. L. Browne is writing in Sydney Society. —Miss L. has left the Wellington. Is it for , better or worse ? —Mrs P., of Karangahape, gave a nice little tea the other evening. — Tom, of Newton, is becoming a second Paginini. — Ask Mac. what happened when Mrs Mao. heard of Shaw's party. —Mr H. Christian has revived his dancing class at Panmure. — Was Shanaghan asked to resign in view of the coming election? — Alf Whitaker has returned from his three •weeks' visit to Mr W. L. Rees, of Gisborne. — It was immense fun to see two young ladies flirting with the waiter at Waiwera the other day. — Little P.'s prospects with Miss 0. are im,proving since he returned from the South. — Jack Mason has just returned from Matamatakarekeke with a dislocated jaw. — A rising young auctioneer is anxious to join the Quintette Club as first fiddler. — Archibald Forbes may lecture on " Kings I have seen," but he has yet to behold our chemist. — Who is the young lady teacher who tells such whoppers about the Beresford-street parishioners ? —The cadets of Gisborne have been in sackcloth and ashes since Miss H.s departure for Auckland. — Why does not Miss 0., of Napier-ftreet, solace herself with the company of a man, instead of a hobbledehoy f — Poor Harry ! Why does Miss B. H. keep him standing like a Peri at the gate ? Is the old lady not favourable ? — Miss Woolnough leaves for the Empire City next month, to participate in the sessional festivities. — It is not true that Mr Martin Lusk has been offered an engagement by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club aa flute player. — Who are the young ladies at the Ponsonby dancing class that powder themselves so often during the night ? — Who is the J. P. in the North who signs his own license to sell ammunition under the Arms Act? — The irrepressible Mac. was great in "Lizzie where art thou " at the Karangahape tea guzzle. — Little Yaughan has been doing good big biz. with opera tickets. He is the most versatile artist we know of. — Miss Collins, one of the acknowledged belles of New Plymouth, returns home next week. Get out your pocket-handkerchiefs, boys ! — Miss Rose T., of Devonport looked quite too -lovely the other day in a brown velvet dress trimmed with satin. —Louis Rose James (Q.C.E.) says he hopes next time that great Maori medicine-man travels he will not forget to pay for his refreshment. — The young folks of North Shore desire to express their sympathy for the little organist of Trinity Church on the departure of dear G. ' — We regret to hear that Mr W. R. Walker, merchant, son of the Mayor of Parnell, is very seriously ill with, fever. — Mr R. Laishley is not going to Europe for the present. He has too many good things on , hand in Auckland. It is the Rev. Laishley who contemplates a trip. — Dick Lee, who was a compositer at the Herald fifteen or sixteen years ago, is editing the Adelaide Punch. Dick was always a man of high temperance principles. —Mr W. Nugent, who joined the/A.C. for the Parihaka campaign, is now road-making at Rotorua. We expect to see him a corporal at least before long. — A man was bewailing his loss by a fire, when a friend struck in with "But why on earth didn't you remove the things on the day before the fire ?" — Smoking cigarettes seems quite the fashion for young ladies now-a-days, at least one would imagine so, when we saw six young ladies at Ponsonby puffing away last Sunday evening. — Archibald Forbes says that if he were a general he wo,uld shoot every war correspondent who came within 50 miles of his army, but not being a general, his ideas don't turn towards suicide. — We hear, that some of our Auckltnd belles purpose' visiting Wellington during the season, and among them may be mentioned Miss Jackson, Miss- Isaacs, Miss Halstead, Miss Fairburn, and the charming Miss Lewis. — Our Whangarei correspondent informs us that Mr J., of the s.s. Argyle, is about to furl his sails, and come to anchor in the harbour of Hymen. Miss O. is the point to which, he is navigating. — Some of the young gentlemen of North Shore beg to strongly contradict the report that there - has been any regret at the departure of Miss L., and Mr Mays assures us there has not been any • greater demand for pocket-handkerchiefs than usual. ' — Mr John Notman, an enterprising journalist, who lately dissolved partnership with Mr Ballance in the Wanganui Herald, is on a visit to Auckland. Mr Notman is looking out for a suitable afield for his talents. , '-. - . „.'.■ ,I^-Mr Alfred Tennyson's new national song is of -'the Rampantest--most-Jing9soine-Ashmead-T ' Bartletteßt-down-witb-everyb6dy--'elße"One"36lly EnglishrcahTwhackr'em-all order, " Hands all } Round" is simply a beer and blood drinking song. urged, to steal and^ to swig, ,ahd to slaughter without intermission, for the greatness ofEngland. . , )

— It,is, not generally .known that Mr W. Young, of R^mu'er4 ex^Collector.of Customs^ is uncle of Charts i If, H6ward Vinceiit, Esq., Director ofCriminal investigations, London, and also that Mr Young is the only brother of Lady Vincent, of Cannes, France. —The union between Mr T. E. Billington, of Freeman's Bay, and Miss E. Barnett, of Shortlandstreet, took place last week at the residence of the bride. The Misses Billington were bridesmaids on the occasion, and looked charming in coloured sateen dresses. , — E. K. Tyler has been matched to ride a steeplechase with Doctor Sanders. Mr Tyler will ride his grey Bucephalus, and the doctor his well-known flyer, Rosinante. Bucephalus has been placed in the hands ; of Monty Severn to train. — The excessively zealous young cherubim who intrudes himself unasked into private houses, and distributes tracts for the salvation of benighted heathens, is civilly recommended to study the advice of Alexander the Great to Apelles, the cobbler, " Ne sutor ultra crepidam" — Mr Fred Woodhouse, formerly of this city and once confidential clerk to poor old Weston, is now a full fledged solicitor, and a partner in the firm of Macdermott, Kettle and Co., Dunedin. We understand Mr Woodhouse is engaged to Miss Bathgate. —Does Mrs O. S. Ellis rehearse her speeches to her husband before their delivery in public ? If, so we pity him. At a recent meeting she began on the topic of the distressed Jews, and wandered away into Bradlaughism and a variety of other subjects which, as the auctioneers say, were " too numerous to particularise." — An Aucklander who recently passed through America speaks in the highest terms of the courtesy he experienced from Mr T. D. McKay, the San Francisco agent of the Chicago, Burlington, Quincy railroad. He recommends travellers who desire to save trouble, annoyance, and loss from the " touts " to entrust themselves to Mr McKay's guidance. — Frequent libations of sarsaparilla are apparently conducive to startling results. The old gentleman who dispenses his compound decoctions at 96, Grpy-street, is about to go in for astrology, and will calculate nativities by the " astounding science" for the benefit of those who wish to know when their grandmothers will die and leave ; them an inheritance ; or when it will be lucky to bet on a donkey race. Mrs M. has indeed a target ; she is also the fortunate possessor of two arrows and a bow. j Mrs M., however, is quite aware that with these materials an archery party on her grounds would simply be a farce, and so she has wisely abstained from giving one. (Our correspondent must be an archer himself, judging from the style in which he has drawn the " long bow " in his description of an archery, party which never took place. — Ed. Obseeyeb.)