PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Publican Pacey should back a double. His luck is dead .'in tp get damages awarded under -the circumstances disclosed m his divorce suit. *'. •». ■ .« -■ •■ i Thomas Mitchell, of Wanganui, who alleges that 'he has been ruined by conspiracy and fraud on the part of persons^who wanted to secure his business, is lecturing m that town on his case, and the reasons why he is now penniless and an outcast. Some of Thomas' statements arc hot enough to leave an ugly scar where they touch, and -if half he says, is ; true, some people ought to be m gaol, and remain there quite a while. ■■■■ - ■■ •* .. • ■ • ...» .'-... Recognising the fact that the present editor of N.Z. "Truth" was the first to boom Fullers' clever and always fresh and funny Comedian, Will Stevens,- and to christen him by the name he has ior years been, billed as "The Sad-Eyed Shriek," Mrs Stevens waited upon that person on Thursday and presnted him with ( an oak-framed enlargement of her husband's photograph. The compliment is much enjoyed. • ••> . • Pussy Freeth, he of the misfit teeth, has left Palmerston North on a tour of the world. The "Standard" gives two and a half columns to a send-off given the microbe fay a few scrouchers and smoodgers, while the "Times," the paper Freeth was connected with, dismissed the nauseating incident m a four line par devoted to eulogising the caterer. Such swill and hogwash as was fired off by Freeth and' his back-scratchers has probably never before defiled the columns of any paper calling itself respectable and assuming any dignity or respeCt for the cult. . • - - • " n; Town Clerk Palmer is a Jonah as far as the (management of any public entertainment is • and -the aouinen m letting him run 'organises aria .such; who essay' to draw the public to tfoe Town Hall. Palmer has the most babyish idea of advertising, and it' is to his incapacity as a manager that the heavy losses sustained over the Exhibition- orchestra and sundry players on the organ, may be laid. Palmer absolutely ignores the best \advertising mediums, and generally betrays his lack of common snese and business .methods. • • ■ •• • Mr. and Mrs Wilkinson, of the Alhambra, have tumbled to the fact that they two have very little to do. with the great success of the hotel, and have gone north on a tour, of the sulphur district, leaving son Park and the nice sisters and only the brown-eyed darling who runs the private bar— and her submissive customers—in charge. There is ijo denying the facj that the Misses Wilkinson are popular, that Park is, a' white pal,' and that the little lady to <the. right hand as you go m is attractive and genuine. . . .• • y. ' • ■ , • - ' John Liddell Kelly., for many years editor of the "New Zealand Times," left by the Oswestry Grange ( "for Engr land ort Thursday. J.L. is. one of the most widely known and popular journalists m New Zealand. His book of verse, ' 'Heather and Fern, ' ■ contains many gems of real merit, and stamps the author. as a .writer, very' much ahead of the ordinary newspaper journalist. Aiter his many years of literary labor m New Zealand Mr Kelly has earned a rest, and all his friends wish him- the best of' trips, and hope to see him return with renewed vigor and strength. • ■'"■.■ .* ■ Mr J. J. K. Powell ought to shake hands with himself. When he- was assured of. untold quantities of "good" .stone at the Pencarrow Head Government quarry, and undertook therefrom to supply the facing for the duplication of the Wellington-Pe-tone railway, his friends thought he had a big thing on. Events proved that the alleged quarry was a shicer; stone - that the contractor's fosses thought "good" was ruthlessly; con-r. demned by the alleged expert : inspector for the . Government, and after vainly trying to keep up adequate supplies and satisfy the hammer expert, Mr Pow.ell succeeded, with the aid of "Truth," which exposed the real strength of that wonderful "quarry," m getting clear, of his responsibilities. The Works' 3 Department undertook to win the "millions of tons of good stone" on its own, and it was decided to use scows, instead of barges and a tug. The horrible blunder of Pencarrow Head ■ quarry is now thoroughly .exposed. The engineers "find tb.at Powell's.experts were right. There is no .good stone left after Powell had worked out the "blows" ; and since he chucked it, months back, only about five loads have been sent across the bay, and those have been composed, for- the most part,' of stone got out by Powell's men but condemned by that brilliant "expert," and cast,, accordingly, by the side of the expensive railroad, built by the Government to work this shicer quarry. Poor blinky taxpayer !

Mr John. Dick, an old resident of Stillwater, passed away m his sleep t'other morning at the age of 76 years. In the early days deceased , was engaged m carting between G-rey-mouth and Maori I Creek, and was known as "honest John Dick.. In that occupation he unknowingly carried the swags of the Kelly gang. ; Mr Ernest H. Parkes, .the Wellington' 'baritone, who has been singing at. the Zibistmn, has returned to this city. *He is negotiating terms With Mr J. C. Williamson. Mr Parkes • would be an acquisition to any. opera company, and James Oasius will be wise to secure his services. ■' ■'' ■ - ■'••'■■ *♦■••- --• „"-.• • ' ■ •■■.'•■ Mr Percy Shannon, of the staff ot the "Sydney -Morning Herald," was a passenger to Wellington by the Warrimoo on Wednesday. Our old pal appears to be m splendid health, albeit he comes ■ over ostensibly on a recruiting vacation. ~Mr - Shannon has a brother on the local "Times," and met many other old (Sydney, friends and acquaintances here, till, as he remarked ,he could hardly believe he was not m Hunter-street.. ••■ * ■ ■ Dr. Mackin, one of Wellington's leading medicos and most; sterling citizens, leaves on a tour of Europe next week. May he. enjoy; -the trip and be ''made-over" again by the change. It will, not be a rest, for the. doctor intends studying, at all the great centres, the -latest discoveries m nyjdical and surgical science, for the benefit of his, own patients when he returns. . ■ •' • «•-..«■- Mr Dick Cooavbes, editor -of the Sydney "Referee," who has been over for the Amateur Athletic Cham-* pionships, was entertained at a "social evening," at the Masonic Hall,; ! Boulcott-street, Mast, nightVN.Z. chiampionv team were also 'Iprteseiht "■% gupfe^; &£&s&°&JLstir passed off very pleasanitiy. jMc Coombes remarks on athlpties, and particularly on the' disqualification of Kerr, the champion walker, were listened to with great interest, even if the whole of his hearers' were not m accord wifli "Prodigal.," •** ' • Jack Curran, mine host of the Terminus Hotel, went rabbit shooting on Monday m the Pahiatua district. The divvel a wan did he shoot, so he did a dicker with the Maoris for a dozen rodents and Hone and Wirimu rung m a couple of bob-tailed catsin the dozen. Jack tumbled to . the trick m time to defeat it, but those who Were' privileged to listen- to his eloquence when he spotted the pussies, say that they never heard such, & flow of- "language" in 'all the.ir lives.. The delinquent Maoris almost turned white before John turned the tap' off. Will C. Turvey, the bloke from Petone, who butted m on the sports enclosure on Saturday week and got fired as an intruder, by the,; Marshall, writes very rntemperately and horribly ungrammatically about the incident and the paragraph m last issue that recorded it, repeated l y naming an individual as the promulgator of , that- paragraph.' Mr Turvey— wha really ought to refrain from using Railway Department stationery for. 'liis- private letters— is : hcrebv in* formed that the .editor of this paper stakes 'all responsibility for what appears m. its columns and if, as he . says, he hopes to see ', the writer of that. "par," "otherwise than papers" he can come right along, any day, and "see" the editor and "settle this incident." Now, don't -get tbpsy, Turvey. 'f / ■ ' . The woman agitator is^a curse \to anything she takes a -.hand m. Miss Rose Scotb, a dreadful, dried-up, sour-heartDd old faggot who **has stuck her shrivelled nose into 'StraliaiT politics — and most other dirty things— for years past, has, \>y some unaccountable decree of fate. Tjeen^--made vice-president of the Ladies' Swimming Association of .N.S.W-, and she is chairwoman, since Mr W. Hill (sec. of the Rugby Union) Tesigned m disgust, and rules'the whole roost. No male, is allowed- to witness the Association or Club's contests, and N.S.W. made it a sine qua non that if /the vouhg ladies were to compete m the intended Brisbane carnivai. the Queenslanders would have to exclude men also— something they had never done before/Then, "when Misses Dorothy Hill, Mabel Hill. Ellen Craig, Florence Forder, Fanny Durack and Mina Wvlie, had trained and contested 'innumerable races to oualify for the ' Brisbane trip, the health authorities up there condemned the baths as unfit for' human moistening, and the whole -thing -fell through. And now six sunburnt and healthy young ladies arc pervading the foreshores around Sydney and saving nasty things 'out loud about Brisbane.and its stinking river. Also the ancient unwed Rose Scott is ' m much disregard for havine: decreed that the dainty darlings should travel second class to Brisbane, when they went* She's no account and a pest, anyv how.