PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 71, 27 October 1906, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

'Sydney "Truth" thus/sums it up ;' ■^•♦'Tiie' CommonweaUi^X institutions have been peculiarly :.&&§■; personally advantageous to a few 'people, but of what brand ? Let us particularise. "■^■"^ ■■ * * 'i/fjl l * ■ "Barton (Toby), vJ^dge, with £2,000 a year for life— lawyer. "R. E. O'Connor (Dio)\ do., do.", and ditto. /^v • ♦ .';'/'''• "Sir S. Griffiths, ' O>^ £3,000--lawyer. '•>>■>• . . • - ' 'f/r/'if "Atlee Hunt, Secretary 'tf or Home Affairs, £800 a year— lawyer. • ■• Wit* "R. R. Garran, parliamentary draughtsman, £800 a yekr-rlawyer. •]gm':.B. Higgins, JudM £2,000— I lawyer;.' • •/,'•*• Jt ; !A. V Isaacs, Judg^/} $2,000--liwyer. >fh "Alfred Deakin, Prime*/ Minister, £I,Boo— lawyer. y/ ; : : ,■■•■ • :ffc"John McLaughlin, reinstated m his property, declared foijyeit by, all j State courts— lawyer. /A , j "Tom Slattery, released'f/rom gaol by High Court after confection by State and confirmation by #ull Court —lawyer. And there are $.J,ivw more if all the records were readY'iip.' 1 . . . # ■ • . „«v''.. Verily, • federation is a good thing to be out of, and New Zealand should never quit shaking hands with herself that she did not let herself be dragged into it. • • ■ ".. Mr Frank -Kilgour, a Greymouth boy, who served his apprenticeship at a Westland foundry, is reported to be second engineer of the treasurehunting steamer Xema, engaged m the quest for diamonds supposed to be scattered broadcast on an island off the West Coast of Africa. •■ * • Included m the regal display of choice wines from South Australia at the Exhibition will be the exhibit of the firm of Hardy, who have several vineries m the State. It is just about two years since their winery at Bankside, near Adelaide, was burned down. This place , was established m. 1-860 by Thomas Hardy, and the whole of his big wine business was built up from that beginning. There was no water availably on that occasion and wine was played on the flames at the rate of 350 gallons a minute from the fire engine. Think of that sad waste of good, gargle, ye red-nosed topers ! ; • ■ .. .» • The Newi Zealand hoodlum is 'way out m .a class by himself, a hog wherever he intrudes. During the Payne-Steele season at the Opera House, lovers of a fine voice were debarred on every occasion from hearing basso James Williams' superb lower register, for the reason that every time he began to roll irrandly down to the low notes, several hogs m the audience started their cracked fog-horns m yahoo ( derision. It is the theatre hog's idea of wit and is an exhibition of brutishness. probably peculiar to New Zealand. At any rate the "Critic," who has travelled a bit, never heard it anywhere else. , „ • « • W. B. ©alley, degenerate son of the "great W. B." (whose statue stands m Hyde Park, Sydney) who recently, tried to shake his wife on the ground of her adultery with his own brother, but whose wife shook him instead on his own admission of his misbehavior with a girl from Jay's named Kitty | Cowell, has now carried out the pro- I mise 'he made during the smelfull trial— that having dragged her into the case he felt m honor bound to marry Kitty if he got his divorce. They were tied uo two months ago and have gone to London, where Dalley intends to practice as a barrister. He may intend, but it is what the solicitors intend that is more to the point. There are upwards of several barristers m London already. • • * An interesting relic of the Maori wars m Taranaki has just been discovered near Eltham by Mr H. Wood, on his farm at Rawhitiroa-road. While breaking up a large, semi-de-cayed log, Mr Wood came upon what appeared at first sight to be a piece of old iron, but on 'closer examination, it proved to be a rusty bayonet broken m two, of the regulation military pattern that can be attached to the muzzle of a rifle. Evidently, m one of the fights around here, a Maori got possession of the weapon from a Britisher and hid it m a hole m the tree, where it remained after the tree was felled. Other Maori relics have previously been found m the same locality, near the point where the natives are known to have crossed the Ngaire swamp m their retreat from the West Coast lands.

Mr Edwin Geacli arrived by the Monowai last Wednesday from Sydney, to direct the North Island tour ot 11»Q Willoughby-Waxd Company. ♦ . * * Lord Northcote, the Governor-Gen-eral of the Commonwealth, is popularly supposed to be very wealthy,, but it is Lady Northcote who should have this distinction. In her owns right she is probably the richest woman m Australia, and her income is estimated to be nearly £60,000 aj | year. !■-» • . • The first two vocal concerts at the Exhibition will be given by Marie Narelle, the talented artiste who created such &• furore m Sydney recently. Fred Talbot is now at Christchurch making arrangements for- the lady's appearance, and pretty) soon the city will buzz with her name. • * • Melba's son and heir was born under a lucky star. His fiancee has an income of £5,000 a year. The marriage takes place early next year, and a trip to Australia and Grandpa Mitohell, is portion of the pronosed honeymoon tour. Apropos of the Queen of Song, it may be mentioned that her engagement with: Oscar Hainmerstein for an American;; tour is most satisfactory. The terms are £SOO a nMit, two maids' and ; -ai secretary and special trains. • • « ■ The fatal knot- is tied, and no more will enraptured, adoring worshippers hang on the notes of the magic voice or glory m the petite beauty of "Veronmue" Marearet Thomas. She and her bi^ handsome Sydney barrister, Alexander Gordon, were married on September 26 at New, Quay, Wales; After a peri&d m the old land? ' the h&pvy pair will set up housekeeping, m Sydney where Mr Gordon has a very lawe and lucrative practice at the bar. May neither of them ever have cause to regret their sweet romance * # • Down m Dunedin all the talk just now is about Sarah Fogo, who, m November, 1900, was sentenced 'to death for murdering her husband, which sentence was commuted to one of imprisonment for life. Rumor has been busy down South that early next month the Dunedin prison where she is now confined, will see her na more. Though the Minister of Justice has giwan his official denial to the rumoured release, those said ta be m the know still maintain that Sarah! is to foe liberated. • • « Patrick Delaney, whose death' m ai police cell at Petone occurred recently, was formerly a constable. At one! time he resided on the West Coast^ and lived for a brief period m, Westport. It is probably due to this fact,, for auld acquaintance sake, maybe,, that a West Coast ' paper which is prohib. to the backbone and agin drink on all counts, was led to deplore the fact that. Delaney was de- , nied the whisky hey craved, and which had it been given him might have! saved his life. Anyhow, what do! these prohibu rags really want. ♦.. * * The prize idiot (or so he feels; himself) m the colony just now is a 1 Southland copperman who resigned his job to go 4th as a traveller m the grog line. He found himself slap up against it from the jump and was soon snowed under entirely. At firat he thought he must be a very poor spruiker or an unconvincing tale-tel-ler, or lacked magnetism or something; but by. and by he jerryrumble* that he was kaiown too well and that the people of the prohib. cold cornet; were taking mental lunars at him. when he tried to sell 'em booze. They thought he was a pimp trying to trap them and put their tongue m their cheek when he told his plaintive tale, ■ • * • Wellington citizens, or most ol them anyhow, had to do without a. sluice on Monday last, all due. of course, to the burst main, and the fire. The morning cup of tea, of course, was out of question ami many, fell back on beer. At the schools,, the poor thirsty, parched-up kids were m desperate straits, yet it is something to be thankful for bo taiovß that there was plenty of water available to sprinkle over the green at the Basin Reserve. Some of the thirsty kids at a neigh-boring; school got to hear of the watering operations, at the Basin and scampered down for a drink. How like their impish, impudence I Mayor Hislop ought to give the individual who had the watering apparatus m band a huge increase m salary for threatening to give the kids a, lambasting when they Jiefcl out their little .tongues, Lazarcs-likc. for one drop of water. The cricket pitch that afternoon wan m first-class -condition.; This i)iayT.'i; seem a very "personal" par, but there must be a pretty strong petsonauiy— of a sort—about a man who could abusively refuse a drop of water to a flock oi parched school children. ,