PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Miss Marie Narelle was. among the audience at the Opera House on Saturday night last. • » ■ • Izard, the M.H.R., is going to Lun,non phortlv. Whaffor ? Some are unkind enough to suggest that . Charleywants to let London clients know that he is not his brother. The Hon. T. Kennedy Macdonald, M.L.C., will leave next March for a trip round the world. ■ He will be accompanied by Mrs Macdonald and will travel via Suez, returning through the United States and Canada. ■ .• . • • The tall ex-Christchurchian, C. L. Russell, who was a candidate for Lyttelton last election, but who went to Melbourne as secretory for the Victoria Breeders' and Trotting Horse Owners' Association, has been re-ap- [ pointed to the position after a year's I trial. A good chap "Russ." . ; • ■ ' • * ■ Mr T. Rbnayne. General Manager of the Government Railways, has got into holts with the Executive of the A.S.R.S. In a letter to the Railway ''Review" he tells the Executive nrettv plainly that he doesn't Want any more balrr nonsense. What the railway men think is quite a different matter. < I•• € ■ " Dr. McArthur, S.M., must have had a jolly good time of it while away holidaying. He came back last week as brown as a berry and no doubt has benefited by his trip up north, The doctor was accompanied by his wife, and as that estimable lady had been seriously ill some time before, "Truth" hopes that she. too, has re-' -jv'ipd her normal health. * • * ' - * ' ' ;-- ; VMrs. :! ."M.., : Smqraiif, 6f 17; 'Qqjjft&v&y:', Place, desires us to say that she is m no way connected with, or any relation of, the girl Liicv Elizabeth Sinclair, who, m giving her evidence m the case of criminal connection, against two Chinanven, . last week, as reported m "Truth," gave her address as "Courtenay Place." As a fact the girl resides with her foster parents m Ghuznee-street. The "<tee Gee" Stead of Australia is Paddy Connolly, a publican, of Perth, W.A., whose nags for the past uve years have been winning some of the plums of Australian racin<r. Three Perth Cups m succession, two Kalgoorlie Cups a Melbourne Cup, a Moonee Valley Cup, besides many smaller yet valuable prizes have been won by this lucky horseowner. Doubtful whether^ Gee Gee S. can claim a better record. • . • • Andrew . Carnegie has granted a life pension to Mr Booker T. Washington, the eminent colored educationalist. Carnegie takes a deep Interest m Mr Washington's work, and sends an annual contribution' to the Tuskegee In-, stitute, of which. Mr Washington is, the president. Another way of das-' bursing the millions .earned by the blood and sweat of his fellow creatures and a worthy one— the training, of Stinking coons for the task of competing with and eventually; cokquering the whites ! • • • Rotorua and its trout fishing has done more to advertise New Zealand than all its exhibition and social and humane legislation/ A Wellington visitor to the Lakes met one day, during, the recent holidays, at lunch time, the following : Ben Brown,, from Caribou, m far-off Canada ; Admiral Dowding, of Iceland ; Mr Plews, of Buenos Ayres ; Harding, of Mexico ; Meineke.of Berlin ; and Captain Biernesky, from Russia; m addition to numberless Australian, English, Irish and Scotch tourists. ' • • . ■ • ' '■■ It is the delight of meanly spite-, ful husbands to rile their .wives, and out them to a great deal of trouble m the collection of maintenance money which tlie* Court has ordered to be paid on separation. They won't part the gonce until a summons is 'issued, then, they pay, and wait until the next bit of blue paper happens along when the trick is repeated. This, of course, is very *n;allinf. and out of the dole received the £oor woman very often pays some- ' thinV to a lawyer t<s look after her interests. There is a darned doodler named Christopher Richard- Wilson at Christchurch who does this sort of business. He is supposed to pay Ms darling wife, Lucy Alice, a quid a week, but' it's oniv a mandate from the Court t^at straightens him up. He didn't turn up t'other aay when it was stated that he was sb: cmid m arrears, and Lawyer Johnston said it Was all that the woman had for her income. A' sentence of two months' imprisonment was imposed, but of course This won't be .served if the Cash is paid. Johnston said that Wilson did this sort of thing every time, find on the nest occasion he would ai!< that a fine he imposed. , Tf beaVs inflicted stiff fmps on nersons like V7a*trr Wilson t-tov Troiild soon rHwnvpr ih*t tri^in"- wilh the Court m order to punish their wives was a very costly proceeding.

Bob Scott, the wrestler, who wad. beaten by Harry Pearre m Wellington some time ago, has retired from the mat, and says he can never bo prevailed" upon to go into the giamo' again . Bob has • turned tutor, and promises to bring some young Hackenschmidts into the athletic world. The Government appear to have struck a capital man m Mr B. M. Litchfield to he. Government auditor of the ' Bank of New Zealand. Lifcchfield is a level-tieaded fellow who knows every footprint m the devious ways of fnance, and who has proved a popular manager of the Bank of N.Z. at Ohristchurch during the past seven years. It is said of him that during that period he never incurred a bod dpht at t»hfi hank. An illuminated album was presented him the other day, ami 0 ftiest of silver •plate is to follow, -when it arrives from HineiamL Ey-crythin.r must be imported, apparently ] even a few pieces of silver. The appointment of Mr Ben Wilson to the position of* secretary 10 the Arbitration' Court i$ a. deservedly Popular one, and the p-eneral. opinion freely \ expressed is that Ben is » the right man m the riftht placf. Since Mr Wilson severed his connection vith the legal firm of Buckley, FUaffon), and Fitzherhert to take im the. • ■< isition of s-hort-hajid v/nf-pr m rlw > ..- tice- Department, his adv{in>''en\<>n» . .. m the, Civil Service has been vr^k!. tt p is at present, .on the ■ secretarial star? of Sir Joseph Ward, and he hrn : » r.n noted for his tact and courts- — .' 1 ' with whom he f\ame i\\ r on.' -:t "Ben" will taVp .^vpt his nny? y ' ; ■ ■ ■ when Sir Joseph Ward >fv> : . - Europe. . „ ;u- •• ■■'■ vyv'-' :> ■■■■■■ ?"■:•■' .« ■ ' ' '•- I--' ''"■' : ''' •.. :f7"-t'T."- --■ When lawyers go a-fishing the result is almost proverliial, inasmuch as the sharks m the dark, deep waters below murmur, "Oh ! •Vlommer," and seek more easy prey elsewhere. Tom Wilford and ' Charley Sk-errett returned late last week, after doing Rotorua. Trout was their game, and, there being no other sharks m the Lakes, v they had a merry old time and fpund a. rich, ripe harvest, m fact other tourists who wanted trout wondered what was up, or at least what was down, as no bites' came at their fly. Still Tom and Charley didn't do too well; their hauls this time being 2cwt less than last year, at least that -is what Tom says, and he's a lawyer, too. A' well-known Civil Servant got married last week and to a -red-hair-ed,, well-set-up girl at - that. The couple slid slyly off 'to a ; township on the Rimutakas 'where they tried to conceal the fact that they were newly-wed. But the man who takes round the city papers was on to the joke .and put the landlady wise. Couple wanted a bath brought into their room. Ancient dame pooh-pooh-ed the notion and told them They'd have to take the creek for it. Their room contained two single ' bedsthere wasn't a double one m the boarding; shanty— and m the morning, while the groom was down t 0 the creek, cleaning up, the miasus of the shanty visited the blushing bride m her ohamber, and was told "When I I woke up I didn't know where I was, and then, I remembered that I was married yesterday." And she is ginger, too! Talking of prisoners recalls a hupe joke once played on a doctor visiting N.Z., a gentleman who subsequently wrote' hia impress-ions of N.Z. . though he left penal ism out of it. This doctor was doing the Lakes and 'lorn Wilford was doing something for his Parliamentary solatium by Komi? through a northern penal settlement, seeing that all was well within. Chance had it that that .same day one of ttfie prisoners time was up and Tommy Wilford drew. Dr. Whatsisname's attention i; ( i '-he man, who was then m prison garb ; though he f did not mention the fact that he was practically a free man. Later on the same day, attired m a free man's clothing, the ex-pri-soner, travelled -m the samp: conch with the M.H.R; and the tourist, whose face was a study as he kept gazing at the released "bird." When it came to the part-ins: 'of t-he when Convict 99 went (.0 Tare the world once more, the doctor 'n excited ton a s asked his companion, . " '..'id rou see Itot man—he is thp privooer we saw." "Oh, yes," paid IVWord ; "von see that, is a Prism t->U!e---ment for rood conduct men, f-a 1 ' be is foin nf away 'for three weel-s' v?va■sion : whpn he' h.-.s hurst up \v< r ;?i< Jque he will re' urn to orison work hard and earn another "vatt wfeifh will do him '.ov )i'* ntxt ho!id;i\ r ." "Gracious me."- said the unsuspecting tourist, - "what an admirable sfsiem ; T inti.st ma-fa note of it." But. as there won no mention made of that "aOmJrahlc sv.stem" m the visitor's urpressinyi^ :ir-i-crv. r j\riis 'nfjMs'hr-d, Ip miKt havp learned that the m.in of leg.il lore had- had him by the limb* .