PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 57, 21 July 1906, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

That earthly saint, Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, hopes to have the first wing of hex heart's love "Our Lady's Home of Compassion" for incurable children, ready for 1 occupation by the end of December. Heaven grant the good creature may have her wish gratified and also that she may live to see the completion of her noble work, later on. ■ /• ■ * • Australia knows well Miss Marie i Narelle, A singer ,whose voice is as strong And as clear as the .■ note of a sweet- i chiming bell. . ■ She holds all the listening world' m a .spell I When she goes Vat her ballads ding dong. Sydney "Truth." ■■' * » , It is a trying time for many young I solicitors awaiting the sergeant's call of their. cases, m the Police Court. The difficulty found by many a budding forensic giant, m maintaining an j Important and professional air under monotonous surroundings is intense. Presently his case is called, and he arises like "The spirit of the morning," and becomes most imporant ■immediately. .'■■*' . : ,• • • Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, was at Melbourne City Police Court last week fined 2s 6d for riding a bike on the pathway. Alfred did not appear, but wrote saying< that he was not aware he had broken; any law. He paid the half-crown instead of doing time. Alfy should have patted Ms chest and said, "I'll do it on me *cad, yer Washup." „, .. ■' •■ . ' • ' '• ■'. "';. ■ The librettist of the "Moorish Maid," Mr J,' Ybulin Birch, has, a little bird whispers, written a melodrama. If the "whisper" prove to be true and a further hint that the MacMahon brothers are likely to produce Mr Birch's drama also prove (true, local' playgoers may look forward with confidence to a palatable theatrical dish. "Jacky B." is nothing if not thorough. ••■■*••• ' ■ i Michael Joseph, William Anderson's business manager on this side, though still a young man, is easily m the first flight of professional managers. Whatever he, touches seems to turn, to gold. Only recently he has superintended three great booming successes: "Czerny," "Sinbad the Sailor" and the "Thunderbolt " combination, i "Truth" looks towards you, Michael. May your shadow continue to grow. .# • • Mr George Stephenson, the wellknown New Zealand impressario, who, to the regret of every soul who has the pleasure of his acquaintance, has not found the managerial path a rosy or a gilded one, arrived' m Wellington; by the Wimmera on Wednesday en ; route for Dunedin, for which city he left again on Thursday, May gentlemanly George's next venture turn vp 1 trumps is the wish of all who have come m contact wiith him. • ' ■ ' • • • DODGER DEAKIN. He was long and most fearfully, thin, A man with a nanny-got chin ; •; He had .studied most books Which related how spooks Would canter around at his grin. He was hailed as a "spirited" sage, Put m Parliament soon, by the "Age," Then he turned on the spooks, i And damned 'em as crooks— ' Now he's drawing a Federal wage. ' * * • Arnold, M.H.R., is a pretty good self-advertiser, and when he is away from Dunedin, and off, the' chain, he offers to relieve Methody ministers o' Sundays, and takes none of the collection: He sermonised at Christchurch on Sunday night, and talked about Jehosophat and other potentates, who flourished some little time back, and made sundry observations on moral virtues, religious integrity and what not. Arnold is pretty good at * pulpit spouting ; let's hope he r don't miss his political cue. ■•„* • . • When. rogues fall out, honest men sometimes come by their own. But m the ; case of fools Nature seems to have intended that they should be eternally duped. Now that Dowie has one leg m the grave, his erstwhile understrappers . are clamoring like vultures for the spoils, yet they pose as Heaven-sent leaders of the people. The voracious Voliva, while m Australia, protested his belief m all that Dowie did and said, but since returning to America, the land of dupes and dupers, he has discovered that his old master is far from being the clean potato he was supposed to he. Voliva, if he be an honest man, will try and recover much of the hard-earned money coaxc a from semi-lunatics and cranks, and return, same to Is rightful owners.- But the public will have to wait' ff long time before it sees these defti .able demagogues practise a litlijj 3Vlialj v they. pretend to preachy

The daily press seems to h'aVe -Jquite made up its mind that when the Ward Cabinet comes to be constructed ; a portfolio will be given, as a matter of course, to Mr George Fowlds, the member for Grey Lynn. Nothing is, however, less likely to happen: Mr Fowlds possesses three fatal disqualifications. He is a zealous local preacher, a rabkf prohibitionist and a I confirmed single-taxer. Any one of I the three evils mentioned would prejudice a Cabinet aspirant's chances. But the three evils" united m one'person are— the devil. * " • . : ■' *, : -'■ .-.'■■; , - According to the "Times" Mr Frank Bullen is a contradictory sort of clissHe said : "The whale has no enemies except man and as man has agreed to leave him alone ,he roams over the sea to-day undisturbed." Then,;/ he straightway proceeded to describe a terrible fight between a 'gigantic cuttlefish and a Whale, each • weighing 100 tons. 'Sort of contradictory, ain't it Frank ? Als 0 have you never heard of a fight between threshers and a whale ? These ar^e as common off the New South Wale's coast; In the whale season as dog fights. Writer has himself witnessed one just off Coogeef Bay, ,7 miles S\Bl of Sydney city.' .. ~ . ■.'/': •;. , ••'. LINES ON LYNE. ' There was once a large man i with . large feet ; ; . . v > As a, "cop" once he traversed a beat; But his ultimate game > Was to shove up his name As a man for a Parliament seat!. He succeeded so well; at the trade That the Customs big "boss he was made,; . " •'■■•,.• Then he chuckled .witto Joy;-- . For he knew when a boy His trilbies : would cbine to his aid, ■.. *i : ■'".*. \. k ,'■ ':• "Contagious abortion was given prominent j attention," says the "Taranaki Herald" apropos of a lecture by Captain Young at Rahotu. It was, of course,, cows that Captain Young was speaking '. of. Abortion, however, appears tof be no less contagious among womenfolk, judging from the prevalence of a certain class of advt. m the pious .dailies. With the following remarks by Captain Young every agriculturalist Will heartily concur : "The lecturer urged $hat the settlers could do ; "a great deal m improving the standard of their' stock by. mutual help] If one man could afford it let him keep, a pure bred stallion or draught mare, ''another a pure bred bull, someone else a prize ram or boar and so on.'' . , - "•';■ '. :• ' . •••• Miss. Flo. Darley, an Annandale (Sydney) young > .beauty of great gifts, artistic and personal,' who jumped into popular favor from her very first appearance. with Mr George Stephensba's companies and who has also been yery.' successful under the Williamsonian ' banner, , arrived ■m Wellington on Wednesday, to be married to Mr Will. Bovis; of the -famous patter comedians and o-vmnasts, 86-; vis Brothers. Charlie Bovis is aIA ready wed to a lovely Scottish lass •he met when tohring Great Britain, and if Will makes as proud and- devoted a husband as Charlie has proved,'then dainty Flo. will indeed be a happy woman. • The wedding • took place at St. Mark's Church. on Thursday, Mrs Nathan, of the Clarendbn Hotel, gave away the bonnie' bride and Mr James Beckett, .the wellknown bookmaker \ was best , man. The happy paid left for Christbhurch the same evening; the groom to continue, with his brother, their' engagement with Messrs "Fuller. "Truth" tenders the younp- couple its' paternal blessing' and wishes theni a long and hatfpy; wedded life. („ ■'■ . * ' *, ' : -'• ''./. Hasty Mr Hastie. a new "Tabernacle" parson, of Dunedin, has been saying things about Dunedin 's notorious drunkenness and some Dunedihites wince under the gaff. 'Here is one who metaphorically, grinds his teeth m a local . paper : . , "St. David" expresses regret at seeing the name of Mr Hastie, of the Tabernacle, connected with the statement that he^has seen more drunkenness, among both men and women, on the .streets of Dunedin during the few months he 1 has been . here than m all the 21 years he was m the United States. If Mr Hastie wishes to be loved, honored, and respected while he is ministering m Dunedin, let him not shake the confidence of men and women by resor-/ ting to fiction. On the other hand, "St. David" would have him understand that it is his bounden duty to make each one with whom he comes m contact look up to him, implicitly believing that truth, when spoken by a servant of God, comes to him from God as a divine message. All the same, drunkenness is much less open and noticeable m American cities than m those of New Zealand, even if "Hasty" does exaggerate— as all of his cloth cannot help, doin&j