PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 154, 25 August 1883, Page 4

PERSONAL

What was the matter with that grocer at the Carpenters' bull ? . la Miss McK., of Ponsonby, still doing the grand on the never system ? 8.M., take caro that -widow is not four too many for you. Look before you leap. B. looked rather loving with Miss B. on Sunday evening. Ask H., is the cake ordered ? O Freddy, how aesthetic' you look in those cord unmentionables and yellow gaiters ! What attracts the tall, fair young man to Vic-toria-street West ? Is it the Lily of the Valley ? That representative man did an awful amount of spooning with the cardinal dress at the Parnell Hall. If that gentlemanly till-thief does not suspend operations, he will hear from us again or Walker! Talk enuff. The Dunedin Star aays that Allen, who lately drowned himself in Auckland, was formerly a runner on that paper. History repeats itself. Daniel has again entered into the Bed Lion's den, and the lion only came off second best — as usual. ' Miss K. refuses to listen to young H.s Bpooneyiams. She says he reminds her of a crushed belltopper on a pair of tongs. What made those two young ladies in Grafton Boad sing such dismal songs P Were their respective swains absent that evening ? If J.F. is seen flirting again with that goodlooking married lady, her husband will enter in for a decree nisi. She pines too much. That excessively spoony young couple in Bvownstreet, Ponsonby, would do well to interview the parson at an early date. It is really too-too. % On dit, that H. and GL intend to try conclusions with the gloves for the right to the hand of that young lady. What doe 3 she say about it ? Bob Biggs did the biggest cry ever seen on board the steamer before she cast off with the football team. This accounts for the recent hieh tirte! b W. S. Gilbert, the composer, having built a aiew house, has ornamented the roof -with a ship labelled "pinafore" which, acts as a weatherTane. '-.-.• '.'-.■ - . . . ■

Wo hear that a big brass-founder has fallen away from the Salvation Array, and accepted a commission as lieutenant in the Skeleton Army. Mews has been received by the mail of the death of Captain the Hon. John Carnegie, R.N., who took part in the war against Heke at the Bay of Islands. Jimmy Maeky is credited with a smart piece of business at Muriwai. He is said to have engaged the natives in a horero while a party of surveyors went and measured the boundary. A volunteer at Launceston, who won the first prize cup for shooting in that colony, claims to be a relative of the late Captain Webb, who perished in attempting to swim the Niagara Rapids. The Yeoman reiterates the statement that Mr Whitaker will be succeeded at the end of the present session of Parliament by Major Atkinson as Premier and Colonial Treasurer. Of course, the Grand Bashaw is virtuously innocent of that scathing leader on the tortures inflicted on the teachers in learning to use the dumb-bells and clubs. He .couldn't do such a thing. Who was the Parnell young lady that was overheard declaring that she was passionately in love with a young bookseller of Queen-street? What a pity that it is not returned. Perhaps it is a mere nothing after all. " Bob," of Te Awamutu, indignantly denies the soft impeachment that he reported his own lecture, and threatens to make a box of frozen meat of the man who insinuated that he did so. Keep your hair on, Robert. The following is an extract from a letter written at Honolulu to a gentleman in Auckland, by a passenger in the S.S. Australia: — "Archibald Forbes is exactly what you have heard of him, a regular cad, who puts on an immense amount of side." A person named "C. Hawker Wilson" writes to the Bay of Plenty Times iudignantly contradicting the rumour that he had been temporarily incapacitated from business through nis jaw " coming in contact with the boot of an enraged husband." "Who is the modest new-chum who is advertising for a partner with a view to matrimony ? Sho is to have at loast £150. Could ho not rather find elsewhere a safe anchorage and holding for his matrimonial barque ? and what about that horrid horsoy-man ? Who was the " old rooster" that gained access to the Good Samaritan Lodge under the pretence of seeking Templars? He looked exceedingly hungry and crestfallen when informed that " Mushrooms 1" was not the password. It might do in Waikato, but not in Auckland. It was altogether too thin ! Spurgeon, our own Tommy's papa, describing the character of a fellow preacher the other day, remarked : — " Ah, he would make a good martrr and would burn well. He is so rcij .dry-:" If " dryness " be a qualification for- -martyrdom by fire, what a number of modern divines are well fitted for that high diaJbuKTcion ! Old Aucklandriaentities will remember a dapper little mag^-with an abnormal development of sbirtrCjjHar and a profusion of jewellery, who | u&edto be Lodge's factotum under the Beckham This was H. C. Baddeley, who has for many years been vegetating in " Sleepy Hollow," but has now been promoted to the officeof " beak " at Ashburton. Who is the joung lady in the Opera House choir that does nothing else every Sunday night but look continually up at the dress-circle, and give an occasional nod or smile as she recognises some friend or other among the congregation ? The hymn-book is of little use to her, unless it is to hide her blushes. She always manages, too, to sit nearest the parson. Can anyone toll the nationality of the übiquitous, red-haired youth, who is so often seen peeping into the jewellers' windows in Queen-street ? It is said that ho has a weaknoss for things red, and that ho is in quest of a ruby scarf-pin to harmonizo with his red gloves, his red hair, and his red walking-stick, which he is so fond of nourishing to the immediate danger of our moro decently conducted citizens. Still another par. about that sportive cuss, Capting Barry. When he was cavorting around the. King country on dried shark and maize gruel, he became enamoured of a tatooed wahine, elegantly attired in a cambric pockethandkerchief and a stovepipe hat. The nuptials were postponed in order to allow the captain to raise the wind for her trousseau by exhibiting his whale. He now announces his intention of taking her down to Dunedin to fill the chair at his lectures ? What a gay old dog he is !

j A noble lord was called on by a friend who told him that a certain lady had been confined 'of a fine boy. " Well," said his lordship, " what is that to me?" { Why," said his friend, after some muttering, " they say the child is yours." "■ Well, sir," said his lordship, " what is that to you ?" THE " CrttCHAWED " QIOL. She can work a fancy screen, Just the nicest ever seen, In a style that all her " eulchawed " set enchants; But, my friend, 'twixt you and me, It would chill a man to see How she stitched a patch, upon the old man's pants. "London and Pakis Magazine.— Feb., 1881. — " Royal Amethyst " Velveteen. This elegant material, to which we are very pleased to call the attention of our readers, possesses the lustre, softness, aud tone of the best Lyons velvet, and may be used for auy purpose to which silfc velvet can be applied. It certainly shows the perfectien which can be attained in the manufacture of velveteen, which bus now become so ■fashionable a material that no lady's wardrobe is couaj^ete without one costume, if not more, of this elegant texture. The colour of the " Koyal Amethyst" Velveteen is very deep and rich, with the beautiful soft shadows in the drapirgs which were once only to be foun<Vin the richest silfc velvet. The pile is quite fast, and v fcbe colour permanent, which are great additional advantages. The "Royal Amethyat" can be used with equally good effect, for an entire costume, or for mixing wifch the many fashionable fabrics now so much in vogue. Ladies should be very careful, in purchasing this charming velveteen, that they get tke right article, every piece and,, box of which (when, genuine) is stamped with the word " Am othy at," apd two crowns, W Rixttraj, Sole Agent for Auckland.