PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 196

PERSONAL

How did Nellie enjoy the wake t>n that recent Sunday evening ? • J Would not a darker shade of beauty suit Matilda than that light grey suit ? What is the attraction for Kate and Jessie in the cricket ground on Saturdays ? Gt-arrard threatens to run an evening paper. : The " proof " reader will have a lively time of it. Naughty Jack to disappoint JELN.W., after his bringing the buggy, too. The frisky tobacconist does a roaring trade. That swan is a " downy " one. Mr Percy Seccombe has been on a visit to his friend, Mr Fraser, of Mongonui. ' What takes that Brighton lady-killer so often in the direction of St Mary's Church? The fair young widow, of Wakefield-street, has found a lover to replace the fickle Jamie. The Wade Joker says he had every right to visit the ark, as he was invited to do so. How is it S. does not visit that tea shop as often as she was wont ? Has there been a difference ? Will the Waikato damsel secure Jack and Ms cottage at the Wade while the orchard still blooms ? Why will not the Licensing Clerk of the Mongonui Bench make the acquaintance of the Registrar ? Sergeant Keiley, of the Auckland police, has been off duty for two or three weeks, owing to an attack of pleurisy. j Is it true that the will of a certain Custom House officer, in the North, is to be brought to light again ? Who is that chairman of a Northern County Council who proposed to open a recent meeting with singing ? Has that beaming young man at Panmure the instincts of a Heathen Chinee that he will not take a quiet hint to leave ? For a good hand at " cracking," just send round that musical young man at the timber yard. His engineering stories are hair-lifters. How is it that so many Civil Service servants love to wander now of an evening down Fortstreet ? " Where there's smoke there's fire." That young lady in maroon dress, also a bright red umbrella and basket of lilies, looked too xxtterly too-too. That Panmure man would do well to select a less public place than a ball-room for putting his arms round, a lady's neck. Who is that local preacher not a thousand miles from Raglan who wears his sister's cuffs and collars when he holds forth ? What a pity that the costume of the fair Hebe j of the Exchange was omitted from the description I of dresses at the Otahuhu " At Home." Will Hobbs secure the appointment of J.P. for that Mongonui farmer before the" eminent bucolic returns to the bosom of his family ? Who is the gentleman who boasts that he has j never had occasion to raise his hat to anyone in j Auckland inasmuch' as he only raises it to ladie3 ? j What takes that dapper red-haired man to the North Shore so often ? Is it to take an astronomical observation of Venus from the foot of the mountain ? Who is that young man that is so very attentive to that young lady from Mount Albert district, and what will the girl at Manchester say when she finds it out. Are young men so scarce that they allowed three young and beauteous ladies to go to the North Shore for strawberries by themselves. Where was Tom ? Better late than never. The authorities have at last " detected " the claims of Constables Jones and Strathearn to promotion. These " plain clothes men " have now blossomed plainly into detectives. A Southern telegram says " Mr Stout is going to contest the Peninsula." These be brave words, and one may say, in the couplet — " Three times he smote on stomach stout, Prom which at length fierce words broke out." One of the resolutions put by the chairman at G-arrard's public meeting was that that worthy was " entitled- to compensation for his wrongs from the New Zealand or any other Government." Where was that married man the other Friday night, when his fashionable wife was promenading about till past eleven o'clock with one of Brown's disciples, who took a " good-night kiss " before parting ? A marriage is on the tapis for this month between a certain genial butcher of Mercer and Miss P. of Rangiriri, which is likely to wound the hearts of some of the Mercer girls. Go it John, it is not every day you can pick up such a wife. Mr Edward White, the manager of the Wellington Land and Building Society, who has taken " a change of air," is a man over 60 years of age, has played many parts, and is full of resources. He was for many years in Dunedin, and was generally dead on a " soft " thing. A Te Aroha correspondent informs us of an engagement between Miss J. H. and a local builder, also between Miss J. T. and Mr C. D. We publisli this in fear and trembling. Of course we shall receive a score or so of warm epistles next week telling us that the announcements are untrue. Is anyone ever engaged nowadays ? Detective Brennan, who is going to Dunedin performed some of his smartest work at the Thames Goldfields in crushing out specimenstealing by proem-ing convictions under the Quartz Crushing Act. For months Sam worked on " shifts " in the mines till he had found out the secrets of the Brotherhood, and all the time wearing that smile, so childlike and bland, for which he is noted. Mothers seem, to be played out now-a-days. It is rumoured that the , whole of the staff of the Howe-street Girls' Industrial School is oomposed of single women. The result is what might naturally be expected. When the youngsters take

the papsilals, fantods, and " tootsewootseys "— as youngsters will do— the " matrons " are said to be emphatically on their beam-ends. The police are now getting rather dainty as to who they haul into the net, and they are now going for very big fish. Nothing would content them the other night but they must " run in " a lawyer and a schoolmaster with a B.A. degree. When the turnkey demanded his name from the limb of the law, it is rumoured that " he objected to the cross-examination of his learned friend opposite until he had ' stated ' his case." Mr Bloxsome, telegraphist, has returned from New Plymouth, and is back in the Auckland Telegraph Department again. He had a refreshing time of it at Taranaki, " sparks " being at a premium with the Taranaki girls in that surfbound township.