PERSONAL.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 131, 17 March 1883, Page 420

PERSONAL.

"What did Miss and Miss iA. see underneath the Newton flrebell ? Does dear Arthur enjoy those rambles on the breakwater with Annie ? Miss M. A. Menetti has returned from Sydney and. looks quite charming after her trip. What do those four young men visit the park of a Sunday afternoon for ? "What is the attraction for May in the Domain cricket ground every Saturday afternoon ? Charles Bright proposed to leave 'Frisco for Australia on 10th February. Ex-Marshall Bazaine, whose death has so often been reported, is alive and well at Madrid. Q-aribaldi and Massena, Napoleon's great Marshal, were not only born in the same house but actually in the sametoom. Tom will be tired of looking after those two furnished rooms if the wedding does not take place soon. What is the name of the commercial traveller ■who went to Tauranga the other day with his wife's satchel for a sample bag ? What was the reason Annie did not attend Mrs , Or. P.'s farewell party on Thursday night last ? Was it really the " toothache ?" Who was the lover who fled from Gisborne when he heard that she was on the war-path and coining down. The Heathen Chinee isjtfsimply wasting his time in fooling about the Mir Market stall-keeper. Her thoughts do not run dib^nings Celestial. What caused Back to leave Kitty so suddenly on Saturday night ? Was he frightened of Tat or the bank clerk ? Who were the two young ladies that were Out boating on Saturday last at the Tamaki, and monopolised the bandmaster and his assistant all the afternoon. Who is that nice young lady in Shortlandstl'eet that clerk at the Post-office is so fond of coming to the window to admire. Who was that young lady in velvet on the ' Mangere bridge the other Sunday evening with that dashing young sailor boy, of the fast and furious s.s. Manukau ? The little polisher, .of Collingwood-street, had a breakdown on Monday evening. A re-union of old Van-Diemau-Landers, to commemorate. Auld Lang Syne. Rumour says that the long-talked-of wedding between Mr P. Robertson, the late Symonds-street grocer, and the pretty Miss Mat, of the New North. Eoad, will shortly take place. There is a time to undertime, but that member of the Bald-headed Association should remember that it is not on Sunday -.Waning in the Albert PaTk. D. M., the Three Kings stockman, looks down in the dumps since that timber came on the ■ ground. J, W. is 'the coming man at the Epsom Iwidow's. I Rumour saith that the charming young widow lo£ Abercrombie-street who wears the pink dress ■is about to splice with an equally interesting ■young bushman of Whangarei. W There is keen rivalry among the young men of HNewmarket for the smiles of Lily. The cadet is ■very .reticent on the subject, says a correspondent, ■doubtless one of the hated rivals. I Why does that intense-looking perfumer persist, in. opening the vestry door on Sunday even■ings, causing great inconvenience to the ladies in ■-he choir ? Someone should make short work of I Who is the young lady that lives nob a hundred ftailea from the_ Choral Hall, and was discovered Bit the Tamaki last Saturday, supporting Fred's ■ipad on her shoulder ? Fred says it cured his ■oothache. H^There was a fashionable wedding the other day a popular soap and candlemaker, aged HHn^d a fair matron of 52. Ever since they disputing about their respective ages, HH|^£gaid they told mutual fibs on the subject These little social deceptions HfHH^H" 1 as to be very venial.