PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 229, 31 January 1885, Page 14

PERSONAL

Old John Cook, the typo., has donned the Lit o' blue. The Hon. C. 11. Nelson was a passenger ~by the Te Anau. The Rev. Mr French was a passenger, per Waihora, for Sydney. Mr Vesey Stewart has published a year Book of New Zealand. Dr Hughes delivered a very successful lecture on"" The Bastile " at the Thames. The llev. Mr Robertson returned from Sydney on Tuesday. Rev. Thomas Spurgeon sailed for Auckland on Dec. 17th, via Melbourne. Sir Julius Yogel is to be invited to address a public meeting in Auckland. It is evidently a case of sour grapes with 8., of Parnell, a la Bunthorne. His Worship the Mayor of Auckland lias gone on a holiday tour in the South. The ladies on the dairy farm are looking very unhappy since the fat jockey left. Dr Lewis, formerly stationed at the ilotorua Sanatorium, has removed to Auckland. Carrie, of Ellerslie, says she will not name the day till Tommy gives up racehorses. Mr Win. Gorrie has been re-elected a member of the City Schools Committee. That young lady in Swanson-strcet should nob kiss her young man in public on Mrs ll's steps. Who is that masher publican that conducts customers from Union Bank corner to his house y Wasn't that old maid in the suburbs delighted Avhen little Joe kissed her under the misletoe ! Who is that dark young lady, of Willoughbystreet, that Frank "is so anxious to get an introduction to V How very affectionate Carrie looked with George on Sunday night in Ponsonby. Is Lily out of it 'r What would the engineer say if he saw Lily spooning on the wharf at Stokes' Point the other night with Patsy '? Major Pitt and family, and Major Te TVhero were passengers to Auckland by the "Waihora on Monday last. It would be better for M. C. and T. to find some other place than the Surrey Hills to hold their service on Sunday nights. After her display in the Domain last Sunday, Miss S. might take lessons in behaviour from even the denizens of Upper Queen-street. Which of the sisters is going- to have that " sweet little shop " at Mount Eden!' Lizzie does not half like the idea of losing Walter. What did Mick M. and Bill M. see when they followed the young ladies to the stream at the Onehunga races on Saturday ? Were they shedding tears ? The employees of Messrs Lon organ and Purcell presented Mr Peter Purcell with a handsome clock on the occasion of his marriage to Miss Lonergan. Nellie says she does not care how soon the ceremony conies off in St. Paul's Church so long as she has lamb every day and a servant to answer the " ting-ting-ting." That was rather a nasty jar Teddy W.-, the jockey, got from the " doves" while walking up the straight on the Onehunga racecourse •with those young ladies. What will Nell say, indeed. We hear that the heroine of the recent horsewhipping case at a certain hotel at the juntion of several streets, has flitted to Sydney since the lively episode chronicled in our last issue. Where is the lieutenant 't Signs of the times — Jeffs, thelconcolast, at the head of the poll, Onehunga School Committee Election. He asked for evidence and he got it. But what were the clergy, Holiness Camp Meeting, and Blue Ribbonites doing to allow this ? Now the other one has left that Nelsonstreet woman she should look to her own husband, and leave other women's husbands alone. [N.B. — We believe this comes from one of the interested parties on whose preserves the female poacher has been trespassing in pursuit of game.] The Hon. John Ballancc, Native Minister and Minister of Lands, arrived in Auckland by the Hinemoa on Wednesday. He was accompanied by Mrs Ballance and Mr Butler, Private Secretary, Jkr Ballance will visit "YVaikato, Ilotorua, and Tauranga, leaving town on Monday. Paddy Doran had a condemned difficulty in Elliott-street with one of the leaders of the Freethought hoodlums who made a row at the grave of poor Holmes. Paddy came out topside?. Doran is a Roman Catholic and yet he says that Mr Tebbs is a white man, and if he had been at the funeral he would have given the disgraceful crowd " donko." Those young " spoons" who indulge in the deaf and dumb language in Queen-street do enjoy themselves. Is that the latest method of mashing- between wholesale merchants masters and retail linen drapers' hat-builders? Be it known, " there's a chiel amang ye takin' jiotes."

Mr Tincent Pyke, M.H.R., a journalist and an author of colonial reputation, will conic to Auckland on a holiday tour about the first week in March. Mr Pyke will be welcomed in literary and journalistic circles. Mr Louis Rose James, who had been suffering for some time past from dropsy, died at Mercer on Monday. Old pressmen Avill bear the memory of Mr James in kindly remembrance, for in the old days, when he was proprietor of an hotel on the present site of the Royal Mail Hotel, he was very popular among all classes of journalists and typos. No dead-broke pressman who wanted a restorer or a lunch was ever sent empty away from his house. Mr James leaves a family, but we believe his life was insured for a considerable amount.