PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 90, 9 March 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Harry Pearce. —Send address to 53 Thorndon Quay. Infp-ortant to you, re your material. •■ • ■ ■ • Stone, manager of the Wanganui Gas Works, must, be as, hard as his name -implies, if the story that he sacked a man for taking a jday off to procure medical aid for one 1 of his children, m an urgent case of" sickness,, is true. . r ... „. ..." < •. ■ ' ; »'■...■ •-■■..' ; The Duke of Manchester ("Kirn")' when m Australia developed a M iaste for bananas. Asa result of the ducal: appetite; the '.banana has ibeen successfully'grown on the Manchester property, Kylemore, County Galway! It is not likely that his DukeshiP Will hawk 'em round fourteen m a bag for a sprat. ."' ' * ■.*■,.. *■ ■ ",-. '.„ '.• Mr. J. M.- Gumming,, representative of Messrs Macdonald, Wilson and Go., ,is a "phunnie phello," and at "telling a yarn he has very few equals'. A party., who were travelling on the Manawatu train the other evening were kept m roars of laughter by this raconteur, and at the finish one and all of them voted him "oh his own" at that game. • / * ■"'*."■ •'." Joe Chong Lee, Ohow, of Martinborough, has dissolved partnership with his Maori mate, Edward Kihgi, m -the fruit ibusinepsy and runs the -show on his ace. in future. Just as everybody expected, the Chinky proved too "slim" for the MaoriSo Joe, Kingi and Co. is no more. It is all Joe now,. ATjkfiged^ that, his landlord is about to build the heathen a new shop. • • * . • ■ - Mr Thomas Porter, who has been manager : of the Royal Oak Hotel for •^ , y^ijs;, > and is , known . to every com4h'ef6i^l ; r -- s^rid? who; In all thai) time, Mf'iadved befv tw^p'Cape Maria and The Bluff, ■•is > going into business for himself, flav-in-taken over the Club Hotel, Ma,sterton, where his . long experience should be a great help to him on his road to fortune. •,.•,.-. •'a m - • The Hon. Jas. McGowan and his right hand henchman, ,Mr ThoSi Hamer have now- returned from an extensive tour of the South Island. When "Truth" saw these two worthies early m the week, there were no visible signs that the trip had been very beneficial or otherwise -to their health, and it is to be - hoped - that, the Minister of Justice will now find time to look into our "rotten prison system." , • * • •• ■ • i 1 'Sir W. H. Russell, the famous "Times" war correspondent, was twice married, his second wife, whom he married m 1884, being the Countess Antoinette Maloezzi. exhibiting Sir William's social.leanings, 'he was a member of the Turf Club; ,the.Marlborough (The, King's Special, and every name is submitted to Edward VII. before election)', The Carlton" (High Tory),- Garrick (Bohemian), and Pratt's (a- sort of "civic."). .• ■ :• • :■•'..; "...<{ ' ■ . * ■■' ' ' » Bonnie Bessie Briggs '(if It. ain't Bessie it orter be),. Of Manaia, .is a darling after "Truth's" owli heart. At ' Masterton Show, recently . concluded, she hopped astride of her own pony, Rawhiti (sunshine), barebacked and without boots or shoes and-sent him over the hurdles-, like a bird revelldnig m the the rays of his namesake; the while appearing, her sweet, fresh, dark-haird, brown-eyed 20--year-old self, to be part of her pony. Let's see. Which did you say was the nearest, way to Manaia 1 ? The Marquis of Clanricarde, the, Connemara landlord,. who protests so much, and who has not visited ' his Irish estates since the death of his father m 1874, is a somewhat shamefaced individual. During the Crimean War he was subaltern •m some regiment on service, and during a sortie from Sebastopol was taken prisoner k by the Russians: He was then 1 . Lord i Dunkellin, heir to the Marquisa,te. of Clanricarde. He was somewhat shouldered over the Crimean incident, • though' not actually branded as a' coward, it was hinted that --he was not altogether averse to be within the walls of Sebastopol. It was safer than m the trenches outside. ■"■■'.*■.' " • "• The Bishop of Melanesia has been .describing the religious beliefs ol some of his colored brethren. On one island, lie says, the. niggers think that the souls of men, .when they die, arc made to live again by being pecked by birds, and at the end of that time are turned into white ants' eggs. Some one should start another religion at Christchurch and make this caper one of the fundan.-en-tal beliefs, They will swallow .anything: m Christchurch. including beer. By the way. the "Bishop says there is now only one island where cannibalism is practised; the niggers on the remaimterittat sausages or cold fruit, or something. So old practises and inclinations are not "yet dead ; there still remains a tribe that prefers, luscious boiled missionary to quail on toast' or turkey and cham ) pag,ne^

Doctor Newmans iGjvj.Yrho is study* ing at Oxford, has passed a recent exam, with houor, ajut;' 'pap .spread! himself somewhat at^a.j.-eceivt gather-' inc. But that: was : , not "'.all'. j The sea has secured his Rugby honor cap,, whjoh the doc.:, views with greater pride; than the OThor honor. "He is as near an 'angel as it is. possible to be, V joyfully exclaimed the popular medico, and nobody had the hearb to "dissent. ' .

Marlborough "Express,' 1 m a long paragraph, quoted from- the, Wellington correspondent of ".the ■ Qtago "Daily Times," refers twice 1 "to ; 'the heartless convicted jobber and he, trayer of trust', H.- S. Izaii!, as "Mr H. Stratton Izard," and "Mr Izard." A correspondent, of "Truth" l suggests that this is because the 'felon belonged to "an honorable professsiori" and "naice society." But what a sycophant the writer m the "■Express" must be.

That 12-year-old kid, Whittington,. jnr'., of Waipawa, is keeping up his bow«ls form and showing an astonished world that bowls is not merely; an^ old-buffer's game. The boy formed one of a rink against a visiting team from Hastings last week, .and' showed such form that one of* the visitors made him a present. But what a horrible old man prig he'll be before he's 20, if he continues to associate so much with Vthe ancients^ Also,- what stories he'll hear !

v Conan Doyle, Sir, is a "."slim" jokerwhen dt comes to a 'question,' of lucre. His whoop* for the half-biejed, Parsee, George. Edalji, Jloing time 6n a conviction of maiming, (animals at a little place; {callpii Wyrley^ m Eng'lftiid," is \ nofch all 5 tihila^thrd^y Jynd pity ;■ f or , a" person .suffering;^ bytiet wrong • he is writing the result "of his investigation^, up m the form pjE a serial detective story, for a whole bunch of American and will probably make many thousands of pounds out of it. Smart man, Sherlock Doyle ! ' '

■'Amongst the departures , from JVlelbourne, on a visit to, the "Ould Sod" is Sir Thomas Naughten Fitzgerald, the eminent surgeon, Knight; of the Knife. Sir Thomas- has jiist* been 50 years wielding the scalpel,, and has been a promlneivfc fieurg m Melbourne .social life "during fha greater part of that period. On tha turf Sir Tom is known *as "Mr N'aughten." This Knight of the Knife got his knighthood, through performing a skilful operation, on ' "the ..nose of Lady Hopetoun, ; that facial adornment having been broken m an accident m the hunting field. Sir Tom was created a K.B; m 1897.

Owing to a neuralgic affliction, which, m a lawyer,- is perhaps the worst of all ills, Tom XWnlford .was obliged to retire from , the S.M.s Court the other day, the result beingthe dislocation" of business for • the remainder of the day. No sooner was it bruited round, the city," -per medium of the daily press, that ■ the M.H.R. was indisposed than he was inundated with letters of sympathy and. advice, and one: female asked him "Why suffer" when her ointment could work all sorts of \voridcrs.- So like the impudent <j.uack and cure-all. This push are irrepressible, and avail themselves of every opportunity to foist .their "fakes on the public, and if a well-known man was once foolish enough to consent to be practised l on the quack would soon reap a rich harvest— from an easily gulled public.;

Amongst the notable deaths of the past month, the most notable . ws.s that of William Howard Russell, the famous "Times" war correspondent m the Crimea during the, .war. He was born at . "lyvale, County Dublin, on March 28, 1821, and had his carlv schooling; from Rev. Dr. G-eog-hegan, of Hume-street, entering Trinity College m 1838. A brother took to commerce, and -was one of the largest and wealthiest silk mercers m Dawson-strcet, -Dublin. W. H. Russell took to newspap&r work during Dan O'Connell's Repeal Agitation, being engaged by the "Times" to describe tlje monster meetings, the greatest of these being at Tara, where lOfI.OOO persons assembled, of which this writer formed one, perhaps the ..only . man now living m Australasia who was present at that great gathering. In 184(3 Russell married a' daughter of Peter Bulrows, an eminent lawyer and Judge of the Bankruptcy Court m ■ Irelnßd. In the same year he .entered the Middle Temple and ■ was ■ called 'to 'the Har m ISoO. For the, "Times" he described the Danish war m .SchleswigHolstcin. In 185<L he went to tho Crimea, •representing the same paper, and his letters from "hestdquarlovs" form the history of the vyur. He has represented "The Thu'hderer" at every, big function, whether of peace or war," since then. He could cover his ample breast with decorations, and was created a. X, night Bachelor: m 1;895 "