PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 18

PERSONAL

Why hsii Annie giveh up those camelias ? What <flid MaiC"-wa i nt those cork fenders for ? fy, JJafthuti'^hat about Darkie H.? Is jealousy 1 '.'■' ' ' '•• •■' ■ • ' : t'«liord Dufferin adds r to his name the letters — , *P ijl iP;O.iK.C.B,, GkO.M.GL, E.E.S., D.C.L., and L.L.D. .The .notorious Lottie Wilmott has been delivering lectures in Aahburton and other towns v 4flk:Canterbury. There is no truth in the rumour that Detective Hughes levanted with the monthly nurse to ■Gisborne. She was not in it. That young couple "who part so lovingly near -the Newton East School should select a more aecluded place for their blandishments. It was too bad of you, Annie, to keep Fred waiting ia Grace-street the other night for nearly an hour. Colds are very prevalent now, you know. We were sorry to see that rising young gent., the oracle of the North Shore, get into such a nasty scrape with the bushman at the R.M. Coui v t ■on Thursday. Who was that little curly-headed gingerbeer«arfc'driver that made such an exhibition of him,»elf on Monday night last, when tipsy, at the 3jorne*Btreet Hail ? Tt was a very silly performance of that baker toy's on Monday night — laying full length on the floor of the hall. The ladies thought he wag "taken suddenly (RJill. the. Queen-street jeweller, who on Sunday ilaafe-wasso assiduously raking his garden, searching ..fttfc |e^els ? Surely he could, not be raking toge--1 ither weeds on the Sabbath Day. i.. Who> was the old .compositor that, when a week's holiday by his employer, was Really too honest ( to accept the same ? Ma ;jcit»nscience ! Waste b siller, ye ken ! „, ! Tt. might interest that young bookseller of i^Queen-streetto know that Miss B. M., of Chapelatr.e,et, was overheard to say that she had a dream, . "iii which he was the centre figure. •>.. Who is that delicate-looking youth, with the ' ** here's my head, and my feet are coming" expression, that invariably appears in Volunteer uniform at the various dances held in town ? >,; Who were the three " mean men " that waltzed ; tjttfetly away on Monday night from the Lorne\ktrciet Hall as soon as they found the moneycollectors going their rounds ? Never no more, dear Q-eorge ! A. M. affirms that since she commenced taking delightful walks at night around the Park ahe has become quite an adept in the Fijian language. She has got as far as " Savanaka the bullamacow !" : ft •- What induces that young man .to hold up the front door of the basketmaker's in Q.ueeri-street nearly every night ? Have those wicked eyes dis- . covered ' their affinity ? Old King Cole is not always a merry old soul ! The Shortland-street aesthetic butcher say 3he •does not consider himself an "offal" swell, but « That he can give the photographer or any other Auckland boy a long start in putting on "jam." *' You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Tt is whispered in Wellington that Mr G-eorge Thorne, "jnn., overcome by a spirit of liberality, -intends to devote a portion of his enormous comfrom the Government Life Insurance "Department to making presents to certain trades- , people in.Auckland, who have for years lived in _ .expectation of his bounty. Those young men belonging to the Upper Pittatreet Breach of the Peace Lodge, who exercise ".their vocal powers every Friday night by howling ; parodies on Salvation and other hymns, to the ': annoyance of • the whole neighbourhood, and to V .sick persons in particular, show a great lack of /•brain's. . They should recollect that they were not ' ail born Sims Reeves's. .'■■'• Wakefield, in the Timaru Herald, is rather •severe on the Sergeant-at-Arms, a nephew of ..VSTiiiJ'Maur|ee > ; O'Eorko. Our contemporary thinks " a stoufc' young fellow of five and twenty or so ought to be earning his living at hard work instead of' lounging in dress clothes in an easy chair in the House, or carrying a mace before his , distinguished relative." But then Wakefield makes no allowance for the enormous area of ■spotless shirt-front the sergeant exhibits to the •jiHouse, a standing emblem of purity, and are- * aninder to the members of the virtues of clean jfnen, '. , Garrard is on the "war-path" again, and ■declares that <• his tarnished honour can only be to its pristine lustre with the complete and humiliation of the tyrant Cotter. ' 'Mrs 'Garrard, like her uncompromising lord, declines totfeturnrto .their; baronial halls in Eng'f land until (he foul disgrace entailed by iinprison.jnlent has been removed by judicial hands from s tlie family name. William. George might have bean seen the other day, clad in oil-cloths and ,'BOU*-w£3ftr, bearing away from, the Supreme Court a pile of official papers and envelopes necesMTJ, for the re-opening of his ca3e. He intends ', to be. "in -time" on the next occasion. ' ; : y'Jptqgn*? writes as follows :— " Who or what is that Jlf^pj^one so often meets with in the y^k^^^e^ft^treet, 'at' theatres, concerts, balls; dancel^Svif^f everywhere except at church. : It is gene^&^[dress^d in a matchless black suit, ;with bell-bo|toin .pants, a cigar ia its mouth, and a massive w^tch'chain (not watch) sufficiently , strong to ah<^r\a lunatic safely with. The front "/$&& of its bat points heavenward, displaying a ; f.aultlessly.-straiglair garden-walk ),;3Sght r a6^rifch:e' centre of its inane^ooking era-; |^D«uiiii\Bajdi;garden-walk' being very aesthetically fetieyedjby bringing the ends of its poor hairt^fw do^n its fprehead, and bruabejjiLhaok agoiny so as *-^*p ; 'anggesfc': to tone's mind tSl^opriateneskp^ •j^^ar&j^ On both Isidps *of its puny ? : .I . 'Wbtiicl' W^ %sfc%s^. :<^\tfßßss spmeM us, jjim it Ujp arid soil it?' % "'-'^' '."'"'." r °%;i