SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE OBSERVER'S " HONOR."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2655, 23 July 1887, Page 2

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE OBSERVER'S " HONOR."

We take this, the earliest opportunity of tendering the Carterton ' Observers 'our heartfelt condolences upon the great bereavement they have lately sustained, Tlio' Observers' have been, we regret to say, bereft of their Honor. Whether' their Honor is merely lost, stolen strayed, or dead does not appear quite plain. The' Observers:' who are of course in the first delirium of grief, simply announce the disappearance of their Honor under date July 19, and under heading " Giving the Lie to a Foul Slander. Their method of announcing the calamity that has befallen them is naturally a little incoherent, but we can pardon the incoherence of sorrow.. As far as we can gather, the ' Observers'' seem to imagine that there has been foul play in connection with their vanished Honor. They even go the length of insinuating that the " WairarapaDaily "has stolen their Honor. This accusation is so mixed up with tears about a certain Black Male and shrieks concerning, a certain Judge Jeffrey, that we can, at present, hardly fathom the extent of their affliction. But even in their tribulation the ' Observers' should be cautiouß. We-put it to them, may not their Hoiw have strayed away and got lost ? When did the' Observers' see then.' Honor last? Did they see it with their naked eye, or with a very powerful microscope ? Is it not just possible that their Honor makes up into such a small parcel that a large sized housefly might have inadvertently oaten it without discovering its mistake. Of course the' Observers' honor would have poisoned the insect, and we would suggest that the ' Observers ' make a post mortem examination of all the dead flies in their usual

resorts before they use such harsh words to the 'Wairarapa Daily. 1 Then again, perhaps the ' Observers' did not treat their Honor well, and. it may have committed suicide —in a whisky cask, Or they may have overlaid it and smothered it with bad language and inuendo: A hundred things might have happened. Perbaps-r-we hint this .in, fear and'trembling—perhaps the ' Observers' never had any Honor to lose !! Here is a little story about Honor;— Two ancient dames met the other day; said ono-

'' Good morning.'Mrs B, how are ye?' "I'm very bad, Mrs A, thank ye." ; " Why, what'B the matter ?'' • ' "Boils, Mrs A, boils, mum "■■'.'..■ ," Boils I Ou your Honor, Mrs B1" " No, mum, on.the tip of my tongue?" Maybe that that is where the' Obser-vers'carried-their HoNOR-and they have swallowed it.-*-Standard.