PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

'Alleged that a small-sized Christchurch commission agent who had a row with a much, larger man who refused to leave his office last week, doubled him up by hitting him m his refreshment room. *- * * On Monday last, at the Magistrate's Court, Mr Menteath, on behalf of the legal profession, expressed the satisfaction felt at the fact that Dr. McArthur was once more with them on the Bench. Feeling' reference' was made to Mrs McArthur' s illness. * ■■•''.- "■>'■'. -y' r ' .'' Obit.— Jacob' Parish, who came out m one of the first four ships containing the Canterbury pilgrims. He was then only eight years old. Parish was the first man to, soft wheat m Canterbury. He ploughed the ring round the Riccarton racecourse, and was the owner of Blink Bonny who defeated Wafcerhen m a match on that course long years agone. * '•','*>■ ":.'*. Oio. Besides being a. wrestler of no mean repute, classing! m fact,' among the champions, Bob Scott, who recently -met Pearce here, was m his day one of the finest quarter-mile hurdlers and mile flat runners .the country could show. Even m the 100 yards, talland all as he is, Bbb never got more than three yards from the slickest sprinters of his time* '•'.-- » •' The position of head-mistress, of the new girls' high school m connection with the Auckland College and Grammar School has been-offer-ed to Miss A. Whitelaw, M.A\, at a salary of £400 a year/ and has been by her. Miss Whitelaw , f blithe past, eight,- years .has been a the teaching staff .of . Wy-cbmbe-A-bbey School, m -Buckinghamshire, .one of 'the. largest schools m Britain, where she has held the dual position of house tutor and mathematical mistress. - # ' ' • • • • Mr W. A. Lloyd, who recently arrived from Sydney to take up a position m the Tourist Department, is a man of many parts, and much travel. Only a couple of years since he was touring Western Australia as a wine expert, and was commissioned from Adelaide to report upon the suitability of the West for wine-growing. His appointment as immigration lecturer in' Europe to the/W-A. Government was only cancelled by the downfall of the Government. He has since fought a political campaign m Queensland and visited the Old Country on behalf, of the N.S.W. Government. He is a native of Auckland. * • ■ ■•-•'• . Miss Charlotte Knolly-s, Bedchamber Woman to Queen Alexandra, ■ is an important personage, who—comparatively unseen— plays a notablepart m affairs. For more than 4U years she has been her Majesty s lady-in-waiting, devoted friend, andconstant companion ; m fact, she enjoys - the same complete .confidence that has been bestowed, by King Edward on her brother, Lord Knpllys. Miss Knollvs has entirel y- identified herself with the. Royal Family:' is -known to them by the nickname of "Chatty," and was the friend and confidante of the young Princesses of Wales. Indeed, m their eifljsh days",she was their playmate and' often' their chosen instructress. * •'''■•■'., An elderly woman, who talked beneath a pea. green hat, like the .dull; buzz of ,a phonograph, was dealt with at Christchurch this week for having been drinkified, and also with being an incorrigible rogue and a vagabond. It was the old. wrinkled harridan Ellen Parkinson, whose case was mentioned m "Truth," and who had got out of the Samaritan . Home again. Magistrate Bishop said Ellen's case was one for indeterminate sentence if ever there was one. Ther?. were '10d- convictions, against her for aim bst every crime m the' decalogue. These repugnant reminiscensef; didn't seem to put the much fraolet' dame out of countenance, and she left gracefully with, a retiring allowance of twelve months. » * '••-' In Piedigrotta. ■ one of the poorer quarters of Naples, there lives a family of five generations under one roof. The great-great-grandmother is Cs>rmela San German, aged 108. Hsr daughter is , T3, her granddaughter 45, , her great-granddaughter 20, and there is a great-grand child a few months old. The aged head of' the family , is believed to be ' the oldest woman m Italy. The venerable dame is still quite sensitive on the point of her personal appearance. Complimented thc other day by a lady visitor on her gobd' complexion th-er old lady, beaming with pleasure, explained that it was due to a moderate use of wine, "which," she said, "is as" good as fresh blood to iis old folks." The old lady's memory, however, is .going fast, and the only historical personage she ' remembers at all is Napoleon. Signora San German lives on • a small pension granted her by the State since she was left _<% widow 70 years ago A

What is recreation, . anyway ? (ft! ..-_.; Christchurch woman, conxplaining -itf<>^. the Police Court of her lortg hours pf',y^ toil, said the only recreate she en-^^v ■ joyed was when she attended ttuF Baptd-st Chapel on Sundays. » . '• '■ • Dick Stewart, J. C. Willianteon's well-known manager, , -was finea 20s the other day for overcrowding the Opera House. The excuse offered was that Dick had a bad leg, and couldn't keep the people out. If he'd shave had six legs he couldn^t have kept the . crowd basck that- night ; they simply, stormed the doors and rushed m. • - » » •• ■ • Probably the most astonished man ■'--; m Wellington last week was Bragge, ;' the Melbourne* cueist, -who thought giving "Ted" Donnelly, . of the Masonic, 300 points m 750 was as easy as drinking one of Olive's 'skeys and ' ,' soda, but who found the local amateur was practically as good a oil- '■'.' Hard, player as himself— anyway, -on the form he showed; m tho.se two games. It may not have been Bragge's true form, but the way the i local amateur champion piled 'em up, and his splendid self-possession and . coolness, were worthy of the highest „. commendation. Bragge's reputation did not feaze Mr Donnelly worth » red cent. , , * . ■ *' ; '-. *- y A parson named Young has just been "calleg" to Aratapu and the pious push . gave him a welcome toother night. After the presentation ,of ari address came the usual singing, .and ihis was the programme : Miss V. Smith sang "J grow so very fond „of you" ; Miss M. McCowanj "Promise of Life" ; Miss L.. Cbrkill, "Daddy" ; and Mrs T.'Bassett, "He wipes a tear from"every eye." Nos. 1, 2, and - 3 follow each other m beautiful sequence, but "Two lovely black eyes'* might have given a more realistic,^* matrimonial touch to the finale i G-bod Shepherd Yoimg seems to have lighted on a bit of hot stuff m th» Aratapu fold. Let's hope he's married' already. •-•* . * . • The big landholders have been m a very unsettled- state of mind since the G-overnment's Land Bill smote the .country on its forehead, and they have* been cutting up their big blocks with a carving knife m their sleep every night. J. C. N. Grigg, of Lo-ngbeach, owns the pick of the soil ■m the Ashburton county, its unimproved capital value- being £112,211.?; From thus fine property the man . of r . the triple initials, rakes m much golden emolument annually—moneygrows on the premises, m facir-and, he is now going to give the. : intending small' settler a chance lo grow a few cabbages by throwing' a good deal of it on the market. Verily that LandBill has caused a -bigger shock among the affluent than an earthquake, .would achieve. .. •_-.-'•' '•.-.•■■■• • >■ • . Patterson, owner of Solntionr is^isaid to have had , "the. win of his life*" over the. gallant . mare's victory - m the- rich ;A.J:.C. .Metropolitan. Staltesl His 1 brother Andy, of- the -Cia,rendon, cut m for a sweet bit, as did his sister-in-law, Mrs Nathan,; proprietress' of - the sameimotel., 'and .all,lier 'sjaff won a.- bit. -^Another who,acpred was _bblph> Taylor, whonetteiC £12^-/ It v£as a : £re&fc evening at the> Clarendon,. .everybody, f rbm the. popular widow'^down. turning -it on,- and as the :higM wore away champagne flowed like water 'and nobody -had to ask who was paying. "We don't kill a pig every day," was the cry. and the number of *. "friends" Mrs Nathan and "Burkey" discovered was a-mafe . in»r to them, they never knew they had so many before. ;The "new sirl (who is a bea-iity, by the way) says , the clmm. made her dizzy. Shell get used to it later on, maybe. #'.'•'■ * V • . ■■ « John'liapatzo'; on' old Greek aimer, who passed ih , his checks at fcgiotover River (South IslandV the other day had an interesting but- chequered career m his early days. He was an old Crimean veteran. He joined the Turkish army . first and afterwards enlisted my an" Italian regiment m which he was engaged at the Crimea. With others' he was ordered to storm a Russian, battery and during thc onslaught he had his arm broken, and was taken prisoner. After peace was declared 'he got his discharge and subsequently became dragoman to the Italian Embassy m Russia. His next mission was that ot -a spy m Russia until found out, when he took his flight to England to escape punishment. Deceased was educated In the Seminary, Constantinople. He was a master of several languages. Those who imew.the old chap reckoned he was close on 100 years of age. He earned a somewhat precarious livelihood at Queenstown. Death by heart disease was the jury'g verdict, who added, as a. rider. "That it is desirable m the interests of old and decrepid men receiving- the old age pension' that the police have the power to remove them, if it, is considered necessary, from, tlvir lonely surroundings where they ma v be lyin- dead for weeks before being discovered."