PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 226, 10 January 1885, Page 10

PERSONAL

The boys have all returned from town — not with the sugar. The Hon. W. R. Sims was a passenger for Sydney by the Wairarapa. * Is it true that Effie wept bitterly when parting with her true one ? It is said that young " Koks " is the greatest masher in Beresford-street church. "What a furore Harry Gr.'s tail caused at the Fancy Dress Ball among the ladies ! Has the Jersey Lily survived the thunderstorm, and what has become of her during the holidays ? "When is the match coming off between that young person of Vincent-street and the coloured man ? Mr Vereker Bindon, Inspector of Schools in the Wanganui district, has been on a visit to this city. » How nice that ex-policeman looked carrying home the new summer bonnet for the fair Miss 8., of Avondale. Mr G. Callis, Secretary to the N"ew Zealand Industrial Exhibition, arrived in Auckland last week from the Waitara. Burford, of the Salvation Army, knows "better than his Creator where hair should grow, and so he shaves his cheeks ! §What a long face H. put on at the Parnell ancy Dress Ball when the gentleman dressed as Satan took his Violet to supper. Who was the young lady Walter was with coming up the wharf on New Year's Eve ? What a nice pair they would make. How nice A. Gr. looked in her new dress on 1 * Sunday. She was quite too utterly utter. What has become of the little woman and lier pet lamb, of Mount Eden ? Has she gone for a sea air trip ? "St. James" seems to be courting those dark young ladies, of Cook-street, very diligently. Is it only flirting ? Does little Tony enjoy his walk from Arch HilJ to Parnell to meet Susie ? She says she doesn't want him. Crushed again ! That Ponsonby Road butcher, who is so fond of doing the gallant, should let married -■women and mothers of families alone. How was it the young ladies of that Parnell "boating party lost their boots on their way to Lake Takapuna? Didn't the goloshes come in handy? How nicely those receivers of stolen j>roperty in Clarence-street were tripped-up and exposed. The police should keep an eye on the neighbourhood. That boating party on their way up the creek to Lake Takapuna on Friday last in the open-boat Wave must have had a lively time of it in the mud. What a figure that young masher cut spooning behind the cupboard with the young lady after the picnic, while his brother was talking politics with pa. Wanted to knpw the name of the charming young lady who held the money in a sweep on the Steeplechase, drew Clarence, and stuck to the spondulex. Mr Conway's "Called Back" is being translated into Dutch, as a feuillcton in a Rotterdam daily paper, under the title " Na duister Licht." Archie seemed supremely happy last Saturday evening. Let us hope ho will "break down" all opposition, and win the little maiden's heart, desxDite the sapping influences of rivals. Who were the three individuals in Newton, who, having only seventeen pence among them, and wanting three sixpenny drinks, took &■, penny from a little boy to make up the difference ? What memb^llp: the Library Committee was it '"'"that? ''"borrowed a dictionary and t it with the remark that he had read it, but he .nmst say he didn't understand it ? P., the comp., seems to be in luck's way. judging by the smiling that passes between Mm and Minnie (beg pardon'! mean Miss — — -). Take care, Dick; " stewed heart " will be you share. Who was the City Father that wrote in his list of books for the Free Library "Wilson's Tails of the^ Boarders? " What presumption in a man like that setting himself up as a Judge of literature.