PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 137, 28 April 1883, Page 92

PERSONAL

Mr W. L. Rees is at present in town, and looking as bluff and jovial as of yore. Flora, your constant visits to the opposite shop are being commented upon by your neighbours. Now that Whitiield is dead will there be any account of that money ? We pause for a reply. Miss Clendon, of Whangarei, looked charming at the Kamo dance last Friday evening, and was acknowledged to be the belle. The little Israelite was not. aware thafc an Observer man was so close when he kissed thafc girl at the foot of Constitution Hill. Mr Habens, Inspector-Geii^ral of Schools, was a passenger by the mail stefctaer for Home. He : ' is in indifferent health. t^fi \ The ex-Timaru coal merchant, Mr Burnett, was a prominent figure in the Mormon parfcv '^ - that left by the City of New York for Salt Lake.' • Mr Scott, of the Roseland Hotel. GHsborne,. gave a farewell party and dance ab his hotel on Wednesday week last. Maggie looked very rude with Tom's hard hafc on last Monday evening, but Willie had the good ' sense to refuse his. A lady who has accumulated upwards of . £40,000, thinks of leaving her money to the Old Women's Refuge. Oh, Flora, Flora, will you never learn wisdom ? Half -past twelve at night is too late to be kissing that young fellow in light clothes. Why did Hume not accept that telegraphed offer of £80 for the winner ? Was he more concerned about the stakes ? Wbat made A. C, of Aratapu, go through the window when he went home on that Sunday evening ? f "v. , What was Mr W., the little architect, of Beres-ford-street doing in a certain bootmaker's shop in Queen-street the other., day exan/iining babies' shoe 3 ? -. , r' Miss J. G. looked charming at that party in pale blue and cream, which suited her fair complexion. Had Tom been there he would have been in love once more. Jfc Is " That Widiewer " angry because J^cannofc prevail upon any " Eve " to offer him another apple, or has he apple on the brain ? — Poor Kitty's ghost ! The person who wrote an offensive anonymous letter to Mr D., of Ngaruawahia, is known, and had better take care that he does not land himself in a hole. It is said that Mr Greenaway, seized with the spirit of liberality set by the late Mr Costley,^ has serious thoughts of making charitable bequeMjfl out of his large savings. ' .. Why does that charming young man a^flfl^^| letts always carry his umbrella up when tflj^^^H neither rain nor sun ? Is he afraid the wi^^^^^H hurt his pooty face ? Oh Golly ! ' "I^^H Captain Pollard, xmlike tla'e* Boanerges ot^^^H Salvation Army, Captain Ijbcl\ Wright, appea^^H like the hero of the Eatansivill election, to ha^^^ " left his voice under the pilK^v." . v The three worthy skippers from Coromandel . have been tossing up to see who pays the 2s 6d per week for the " newcomer " near the Coromandel wharf. Great interest is taken in the result. A member of No. 3, A.R.V., wetfit into the Temperance Hall the other nigh*, Jem returning from drill, and, owing to the similarity of uniform, got mistaken for a soldier of the Salvation Army. Mr Neil Heath desires the gentleman who contributed a paragraph, in last week's issue, respecting the departure of Miss Khiwaejck, to call upon him and make himself acquainted with the facts. Pistols and coffee for two. Bob Skeen should be more careful in announcing the subject of his essay. "On The Turf " fvi.de Star) is vague— very, the words having at least two distinct and accepted meanings. Which does the wily Robert know most, or least, about, we would like to know ? It did not look well for Tom D. using such language to those three young ladies the other evening in Ponsonby. He put his foot into it when he lost the respect of that nice looking young lady who was carrying her cloak the most stylish and best looking of the three. William Redmond, younger brother to J. E. Redmond, M.P., arrived in Brisbane by the Governor Blackall. His health has been very indifferent recently. It is to William that the Press in the other colonies attribute the moro violent utterances that have been reported. Who were the four young collegians of the Auckland University, who, with a mutual sixpence in their pockets, entered a tobacconist's shop in Victoria-street, on an off-night, and endeavoured to give the presiding goddess a lesson in orthography, of which the following is a sample — " promeskus," for promiscuously? The very tall genl.lomavi who wears the eyeglass, and resides at Norman's Hill, within thafc borough which is shoitly to be deluged with £6000 worth of water, had better let the maid-of-all-works alone in future whilst; she cleans thte windows. Just try, Jeames, and recollect fcne governess, and remember you 'have a wife and bairns inside. Harry Gould's appearance after his ride on Saturday was very different to thafc pre- , sented before it. His iron steed bolted with. him and ran him into a thorn- hedge, besides tnrning about 6 somHsaulfcs in tho mud. ■ Harry' looked like a hedgehog when he got home what with dirt and prickles. He says, however, thafc he , is improving. i That individual of universal knowledge at Oneliunga wharf, hotter known as the' sub- " ■ manager of New Zetland KniUvays, might have '. been seen shooting up the wharf, "with his right, i hand describing sundry revolutions in the air like \ the beater of a steam potatoe-digger, whilst the' I digitals of the left, grasped (h v m3y his nasal organ,' • I indicative of perfumes odoriferous^ .the, inline- • s diate vicinity. Upou inquiry it -was found fchafr ■ i he had just finished discharging a.'fcruck-load^pfK | I impe.fectly aired shark, which, was ere route for i' by the, Argylo. ■ lie, was/ afWward.c ' ■heard, praying iri a. ; yery. . forcible ■ and 'glpquefift-,'' ,f or fche .future •• w elf ar e.Vof 1 : tlie owner of

\ _ Tlie schoolmaster is abroad, and the march of civilization is travelling westward, as will be exemplified in the climax of a dispute between two knights of the clearer, when one was heard to tell the other that he was a " heterogeneous conglomeration o£ absurdity." N.B. — We have broken and spoilt three pens and half-a-quire of note paper over these jaw-breakers. No wonder it killed his opponent. H. S. J. must have been a worshipper at the shrine of one or more of our city Hebes, and " not in it " at that. He spoke so feelingly on the subject on Monday night that no other solution offers. We advise a visit to the dark and snappy Julia at the Vie, or to the fair and lovely Grace at the Exchange ; and if they don't prove victorious in making him exchange hia opinions, ■why we give him up as a bad lot. An old bald-headed sinner, in the neighbourhood of Pitt-street, was observed by a broadaccented son of Erin in the act of discharging innumerable glasses of whiskey which he had imbibed, not wisely, but too well, on the Sunday evening ; while by his side a large collie dog was engaged in a similar interesting occupation. Pat was heard to exclaim, after gaziug in stupefied astonishment at their mutual occupation, " Begorra, Mr S., I think both you and the dog was dhrunk last noight."