MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 20

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr Frank Holmes has made applications io the Warden's Court at Wyndham, Southland, for special claims for prospecting beach ground. Mr Holmes, who has recently returned from South Africa, represents a rich mining firm there, who are prepared to spend .£IOO,OOO in testing tho beach ground about Waikawa and Waipapa by tho McArthurForest or cyan id o of potassium process. Constablo Hutton has boon appointed Truant Officer for tho Johnaonvillo district.

A photograph in a Napier shop showing some Volunteers adorned with bogus medals did not please one officer, who, a local paper states, went into tho shop, secured tho picture, broke it across his knee, and then shied the fragments into tho street. Several hundred spectators witnessed the incident. A letter from Now Orleans, received by a Feildtng resident, states : —" Rrown, who was at one time Mayor of Wellington, and in the grocery business, is doing very well here." Mr Fletcher, late of the Wakatipu, is to act as chief steward of tho Penguin, and Mr Connor on tho Mawhora. Mr Jacobs, now on tho Mawhora, will be transferred to the Waihi.

Captain Grant having obtained a few ■weeks' holiday, Mr Brewer will remain in command of tho Takapuna until his return. The German Emperor is said to have had his loft arm photographed by tho Jiontgon process. This arm, as everyone knows, is quite useless, and the photograph, which lias revealed tho nature of tho malformation, has beon submitted to eminent surgeons, who say that thoy believe a simple operation may give tho Emperor partial, if not complete, uso of his left hand and arm.

Mr Baker, well known in cricket and scholastic circles in Canterbury, has been appointed to take charge of the boarding establishment in connection with tho Dunodin Boys' High School. It has transpired that it was Mr E. W. Roper, tho well-known merchant of Christchurch, who donated the .£IOO worth of Maori curio.s to the Canterbury Museum

Mr O. Gillon, sou of the late Mr K. T. Gillon, has been transferred as purser from the Omapore to the Taieri, now running between Sydney and Launcoston. At a social gathering at Timaru in celebra tion of tho 21st anniversary of the Uev \V. Gillies as minister, Mr Gillies was presented ■with an illuminated address, and Mrs Gillies with a purso of sovereigns. Councillors Hairis and Dcvino have been appointed delegates from the City Council to the mooting of tho Municipal Association. At the City Council meeting, the Mayor moved resolutions of sympathy in connection with tho death of fcir Honry Parkosand .Mr fcj. T. Gillon. Tho resolutions were agreed to.

The higher professional diploma of Licentiate in Music has beon conferred on Mr Eobert Parker by Trinity College, London. This honour is but rarely bestowed /imori's causa, and is held by several musicians of eminence in England, including Dr Hubert Parry, Dr Bridge, Sir Herbert Oakeloy, Mr F. H. Cowen ami others of high standing. Mr Parker has laboured in the cause of music and its higher culture in the Colony for a quartor of a century, and this public recognition will bo gratifying to him and tho many with whom he has beon associated during that period. Messrs E. H. Booro and A. D. Crawford, tho only candidates nominated, have beon declared elected to tho two vacant scats on the Seatoun Road Board. Tho Gazette notifies that Mr William McKoe has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, Births and Deaths for tho Foilding district. Mr Thomas Kirker has boon appointed Deputy-Registrar of Births and Deaths for tho Hutt district. At tho Liedertafel pracliaa last week, tho secretary, Mr Ritchoy. congratulated Mr Parker on behalf of the members o:i the honour recently conferred upon him by Trinity College (London) by granting him the diploma of Licentiate of Music. Tho Minister for Education (Hon W. C. Walker) left for tho South on Friday afternoon.

Miss Banks has been appointed permanently as assistant teacher at Shannon School.

'Tho captains, chief officers and pursers of tho Union Steamship Company's steamers have boon directed by circular to sen I their photographs to the head office, Dunodin. The reason for this collection of beauty or otherwise is not stated.

Captain Babot, who is about to visit England on a holiday tour, left for Lyttolton by tho Penguin on Friday to join the ionic. Tho appointment of Dr Mason as a member of tho Otiki Licensing Committee, in place of Mr E. Gascoigne, is gazetted. Letters of naturalisation have boon issued to Carl Gustof Carlson, contractor, VVanganui, and Lahood Joseph, dealer, Palmorstou North.

Mr Gladstone expressed Ins sorrow, an \ an old friend of Italy, at the reverse at Adowa. He said he fe ired that if the present adventurous policy were persisted in it might j cost Italy the loss of her constitutional unity. "An Old West Coaster," writing to the Southland Daily News regarding tho career of tho Hon It. Seddon, says:—"From chairman of the first Road Board, Mr Seddon subsequently filled with ability and credit all the offices it was possible for a man to fill in the Councils of tho people, r :nd became a prominent public man long before lie entered Parliamentary life at all; ho was looked up to as a capable man, head and shoulders above the ordinary people around him, and, as a mining advocate in the Warden's Court, and assessor in mining disputes, Mr Seddon's services wero (jCarccl.V over out of request. When ho once entered Parliamentary life it was no surprise',to jne, nor, I expect, to many more who knew him, that ho should so quickly co.ne to the front—and within 10 years he was doscribo 1 by unbiased critics to bo one of the ablest debaters tho New Zealand Parliament had known, and ranking with such men as Fox and Grey." Sir James Hector left for Brunneiton on Monday to sit on the Brnnnorton Disaster Commissiai. Mr J. Mackay, of the Labour Department, returned to Wellington from Napier on Monday. „,,... . -, Inspector Emerson, of Napier, is promoted to boa first-class inspector from the lstmst.; Inspector Hickson, of Auckland, from June Ist ■ and Inspector McGovern, recently appointed from Greymouth to take charge of tho New Plymouth district, from July Ist. Mr W. Mitchell, Wanganui, who pluckily .stopped a galloping horse that had thrown its rider and was dragging him along the Avenue, has been presented with a handsome watch and chain in recognition of his bravery. _ Mr W T. Crawshaw, of tho Blenheim branch of the Bank of Now Zealand, has been appointed to the Hawera branch. Mr Crawfefcawis well known in cricketing ana tootball

circles, and as a batsman has more than a local reputation. The friends of that genial barrister, Mr E. G. Tellicoe, aro having some fun about tho alleged verdict for .£IOO,OOO which a Colorado crank says he procured in the United States. Air Jellicoo, like all lawyers, delights in big cases running into the hundreds of thousands, but lawyers prefer to bo tho counsel and not tho client As a celebrated lawyer once said, " Tho client may lose, but the lawyer never." Mr Jellicoe does not owe any man £IOO,OOO. Lord Glasgow lias accepted the office of patron of tho Wellington Industrial Exhibition, and if his engagements permit he will open the Exhibition. Tho late Shah of Persia was G 7 years old. and had occupied tho throne for 43 years. Muzaffcr, who is announced as successor to the throne, is his second son, and was born March sth, 1853. General George P. Williams, the founder of Japan's present financial system, and for five years tho financial adviser of the Mikado's Government, has sailed from San Francisco for Japan as the agent of the Cramps of Philadelphia to get contracts for some of Japan's new warships. Kcir Hardio, the English agitator, says there is a great field in the United Stales for socialism, but he acknowledges that the movement is making no headway. Mr Findlay, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, has arrived in Wellington. Ho visits New Zealand partly on account of his health and partly to examine into the goldmiuing operations in this Colony. Mr Findlay, who is accompanied by his wife and family, will leave for Auckland in a few days.

The sale of the late Alexandre Dumas' household effects has been a great financial success in Paris. His widow and daughters bought in many works of art. The proceeds of the sale reached nearly 500,000 francs. Twenty-five thousand francs was paid for an unbound edition on Japanese paper of " La Femmc de Clemenceau," illustrated in water colours by Mcissonior, [leilbuth, Beaumont, Loloir, Boulangcr and Vibcrt.

Mr C. A. Marcus, who has been station master at Wanganui for tho past 10 years lias received notice of his promotion to tin Timaru station.

Miss Mcrvcuzie, of Sandon, is a young lady of nerve, as shown by the fact that a couple of days ago, at Mangaouoho,she crossed the wiro over the LJaugitikei Liver, to and from Mr McGregor's mill, on which all the timber is brought over. The wire is about a quartor of a mile long, and is nearly :300ft above tho river, and the mode of conveyance was by a single plank swung by pullies on the wire, and worked by an engine with an endless wire. As the lady left the mill, tied on with rope and chain, she was loudly cheered. General Duchesne says that the Queen of Madagascar has accepted tho French .suzerainty as she might have done the mastery of a second husband and Prime Minister. > s ho seems rather interested in tin; complete transfer of powerfrom the ex-Prime Minister to the French, and showed herself deeply sensible to the many courteous attentions of the victors. General Duchesne thinks her open-hearted, open-minded, and in her way a charming woman. Another general says that she'is extremely fond of dress, and longs to visit Paris. She can never hear enough about the shops, and theatres .and the Fly-.'-e balls. Miss F. Broome lias won the first prize of X'l offered by the Wellington Industrial Association to flic pupils of the Technical School for the best design for a seal for the Association. I here were about half a dozen designs sent in, and in view of their excellence there was considerable difficulty in selecting the winner. The Association therefore decided to give a second prize of .£L to the sender of the next in merit. Tho designs wall be placed on view as soon as the engraver, Mr S. G. Ross, has completed tho cutting of the seal. Miss Broome has been for some time a pupil of tho Technical School, and is well known as a student of art design.

Much satisfaction prevails among the natives upon the West Coast of Africa at tho downfall of King Prempeh. At Accra, there was a remarkable demonstration of two or three thousand native women, who bore a caricature at tho head of the procession of King Prempeh and his umbrella, and at the rear one of the queen mother in a hammock.

The salary of the engineer to the K'amritikei County Council has been raised to I' lit) per annum. An Oamarii man, who had to ask for concessions from his credit rs in lo'o in con-

sequence of having nut with financial diliteul ties, has now paid the whole of his debts.

Tho Shah of Persia, who has just been murdered, was said to possess the largest treasure of any sovereign in jewels and gold ornaments, it being valued at £l - 2,00i),O00. The chief' object of value in tho collection is the old crown of I'er.-iui rulers, in the form of a pot of flowers, which is surmounted by an uncut ruby, the size of a hen's egg. The' diamonds in another symbol of his rank arc said to weigh almost 20lb. There is also a jewelled sabre valued at £320,000. These are now Muzeffar's.