PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. A. AV. Rutherford, M.P. for Hurunui has arrived in the capital. • > 1 ;

•Mr.;-'W. F. Massey, Leader of the Opposition, will deliver a political address ai Groyfcown this 1 evening.

"Mr.: J. T. Partridge, of Westport,; is ; ai present' in Wellington on- his' way to -Erieland with tho object of inducing Britisl: capitalists to provide tho money for developing certain coal areas in the vicinity of TVcstport. , -'. ,

_ Mr„ H. J. Pallett, factory manager for Messrs. R. Hannah and Co., is severing his connection with that firm .to take up an appointment, in connection with Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen's hoot factory! at Dunodin. 1 ■ / On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. John Riddle, of South Dunodin, celebrated the sixty-third anniversary 9f their marriage. Mr. Riddle, who is still in excellent health, as a-young mail was in tho Navy, and served in theCrimea. He was also employed on a troopship at the time of the Indian Mutiny.

Instances of pluck on tho,stage are,not rare, but there aro few to' equal tiio courago of little Vera Huggett, of "Tho Prince Chap Company, 'liioso who were present at tho performance on- Saturday evening would liavo noticed that tho child played her part with her arm in a sling, and tho circumstance was passed off by an allusion ill tho dialoguo to a sprained wrist. As a matter of fact, the child's arm was accidentally broken on the Monowai, yet she was able to appear iu Christchurch the saiuo evening.

A Press Association cablegram from Melbourne reports tho death" of Mr. Dan Barry, actor. Though almost unknown in Now Zealand, Mr. Barry's was a figure that loomed largo among tho theatrical notabilities of back-blocks Australia. Ho was what wo 'in New Zealand would call a bush' actor, seldom venturing with his troupo of - "battlers" into tho larger centres, being always sure of a " house" in tho more remote towns, where less "tone" was wanted, Dan was not above playing in a woolshed or an auction mart, where there was no theatre or hall, and a lack of chairs did not worry him if tho placo was occupied by bales of wool or sacks of potatoes. He played melodrama, Australian drama (written by himself) and "East Lynne." When all else failed. "East Lynne" would tear tho settlers from their homos—it is tho irresistible stago classic of tho Australian back-blocks. Dan Barry has toured Australia from AVarnambool to* the Gulf of Carpentaria—per train, per coach, per hoof—and is said to liavo made money. Many Australian actors have learned the rudiments of their art in the Dan Barry school, and air can toll stories, good stories, too, of the deceased mummer. .

It is understood that Mr. Alfred Hill, tho woll-known musician, conductor, and composer, is to leave, for London, shortly in connection with an edeavour that is to bo made to have his' opera, "A Moorish Maid" produced there. During its recent rovival at Duucdin, tho opera was witnessed by Mr. Cunningham Bridgrnan, a London journalist and critic,* who expressed himself delighted with tho work, us one of great musical worth, venturing the opinion that it would find favour with tlio audiences of tho world's metropolis. Mr. Hill showed himself to be a highly talented composer when ho wrote his Maori cantata, "Hincmoa," in which he has immortalised in music

tho best known of all Maori legends—that concerning tho lovo of Hinemoa and Tutanekai. Again ho showed his gift for melody in' tho opera "Tapu," played in New Zealand by tho Pollard Opora Company, and in Australia by the Royal Comic Opera Company. It was Mr. Hill who composed the graphically scored Ode sung at tho opening of tho New Zealand Exhibition, and the success achieved by Mr. Kemicrloy Rumford in singing his "Vniata Poi" (poi song) at the Albert Hall, London, was cabled out a fow days. ago. His ability as a conductor canjiot be doubted by anyone who heard tho performances of tho, Exhibition Orchestra.

Mr. R. Carter, Collector, of Customs,, underwent an operation last weak, and is now making satisfactory progress towards re« covcry.

pwlm - ' ila ,f7 s Merivale Church (Christchurch) on iiiursday afternoon ' Miss Zoo Uroy Millnn daughter of the lata A n ""kill, was married to Air. i'. a. JJorn, barrister and solicitor, of San I'rancisco. '

,i h '' F ." Radford, of West Australia, but Ade ' aid %. South Australia, r „ Cl ™ toi accept an invitation to take i efne°iJ le t Baptist Urch and < nohth Mr P nv .°. here some timo this . Hio ■inn Af j'i, a i { orc i 13 a mar ried man, and the son of the late Mr. J. Radford, a wellknown Adelaido Baptist preacher. £;« irsrs ll ' "7'° ,nd fis. ci-asj, s issri Cltoi, by this, my list will g i vo a /l my r tate } real and personal, to my wife, LuT May Kingston, whom I appoint sole executrix hereof.-C Kingston." By a codicil inlm Mr. Kingston bequeathed the cstito to his son Kevin, if Jlrs Kingston died before, her husband. Kevin Kingston died of typhoid c d " 1,