PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Mr, H. M. Speed' of Makirikki Valley, Wanganui, was m this town last week attending to some private !jiiMness. : . \

Mr C. C. Graham. S.M., at Dunedin is mentioned as likely to retire very shortly as a result of his having reached the age limit.

"Walklate" is the name of the recently imported manager of the Auckland tramways. He will have no such excuse now ; he'll be able to ride free.

Two candidates for Municipal honors at Eltbam were named Parrott and Partridge. 'As the electors made 'em qxiail and look silly geese, the pair were not dead birds for the positions.

Ex-Councillor Frost, is said to have been the greatest of surprised men at the result of the Municipal Elections, amd cannot for the life of him understand how he vfas cast aside. Frost has frozen somewhat now. His name was Frost, how it is mud.

Most remarkable thing about the Ada Ward (the actress evangelist) pot-boil is the host of unknown people who come forward and announce themselves as actors, or managers, and— Christians. We haven't heard from Harry Rickards, Frank Clark, the three Macs, or Musgrove m that way yet; says the Melijourne "Truth."

. Mr Richard Essex, who headed the Palmerston North Mayoral election, had a hard man to beat m the late Mgyor, Mr M. Cohen. The contest shows that the Palmerston people are tired of the Cohen rule, and want to see what new blood will accomplish. Mr Essex was previously a councillor, and made,a jaa'me; for himself .for his staunch and . vigorous opposition to a policy of rust. "'"

Jack Pilkington, the sole survivor of that dreadful boating fatality m Auckland Harbor, or rathet Hauraki Grulf, owes his life to his grit.. As a very small footballer, about Sst stb or 6lb m fact, twenty odd years ago, he was a valued member of the crack Ponsoreby lifteen, and was as game as a bull-dog ant, while he could stay for a- week. Poor fellow, he had a terrible experience, 42 hours m the water, surrounded by sharks, and seeing his two sons die of exhaustion.

Alice Mitchell, for baby farming a% Perth, Westralia, has been found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years' hard labor. Apropos of which, m 1893, one John Makin and his wife, ware committed for trial by the Sydney . Coroner on a verdict of a -jury for manslaughter, m baby, farming, at Maodonaldtown. The Attorney-General of the day, Toby Barton, altered the indictment to one of murder, pure and simple. Husband and wife were convicted and sentenced to death— the husband was hanged, the wife's sentence being commuted to imprisonment for life.

Sir 'John Gorst, noble old veteran that he is, was, during his recent vdsit to New Zealand, where he was such an entity m Maori war times, an honored guest of the Government, and since his return he has . told an English audience that he never saw during his tour children m want. How could he ? He was lionised all through the colony, and o n ly went where he was taken, and yet "Truth" was, at the very time, exposing heart-breaking-<;ases of .starved arid; ill-created children, and the local society for their protection was kept busy investigating and ameliorating, the conditions under which the children of the rack-rented workers existed. To those who know the truth this babble' of the doddering ancient is simply sickening.

Mr Tom Mann the ex-beer adulterating professional agitator •had ,a little of the frifmptiousness knocked out of him &t" Melbourne Police Court the other day, where he was charged with having used insulting words to plain-clothes Constable O'Sullivan on the Yarra Bank— the Melbourne "Domain"— on Sunday, March 24. Mann denied the charge. O'Sullivan swore that the ex-London LalDor Agitator said, "I will sell papers m spite of the laws of the dirty State, and m spite of the whole police force." When he ' came ofi the "stumip" O'Sullivan said, "I will r take a paper, please," but Mann said 1 VNo fear. Do you see any green m my eye?" O'Sullivan asked him a second time, but Mann declined. He then returned to the stump and pointing at O'SufHivan said, "There's the thief that stole our papers last Sunday— the dirty cur— the ulain clothes policeman. He must have been starving when he took up the dirty work." Mann admitted the term "dirty cur," but denied the "thief," Fined 4/Qs, and costs,

J. P. Luke, 'J.P., fopped the poll for the Wellington Council. A very, hard man to beat is J.P..

Mr D. A. Abercqmbie, General ' Manager m New Zealand of the North Queensland Insurance Company is at present on a business trip to Sydney.

Harry Pearce, the champion wrestler of Australia and New Zealand, left these shores by the Athenic on Thursday last for England. This is Harry's second trip home. ,

The Hons. J. A. Millar, G, Fowlda and J.. McGowan are all on a trip to Auckland. Departmental and. pubHe business is the reason given for their absence from Wellington.

William John Gilfillan. flax-miller* late of Break-E m-A ll, Waikaia, has been, adjudged a bankrupt at Gore. Breafc-'Em-AlI, we should smile, and no wonder he goes to the Bankruptcy Court.

~ - » ..... One J. W. , Coffey, who travelled with a c-ircus for ten years as a living skeleton, recently died' of Starvation m America. 'The living sKeletcn game hardly, it would seem, keeps bony and soul together.

The theatrical managers of Australasia have decided to 'raise a memorial to the late Rifted actor Robert Brough. It will take tha form of a handsome fountain, wtiioh will be erected within the grounds of th© Sydney Hospital. . '

T. W. Fisher has been appointed to the position of under-secretary of native 1 affairs. Sometime Chief Judge Edge, o! the Native Land Court;, took the job on but was a failure apparently, as he his gqne back to his roost on the bench. i___i__j:_

Sergeant 'Ru'ilettge lias returned from Christchu-cli, and ;- is doing duty once more m Wellington. .Rut's stay m the Cathedral City must have besn pleasant, and he has filled out some. His moustache, too, is a thing of joy, but "Truth" ia afraid it is doomed. With it ha does not look the same old Rut.

There was a /pleasant little function m Dr. MqArthur's chamber at the Magistrate's Court last Monday, when the "Doc," on behalf of , the staff, presented Mr. J. H. Carrad with a silveir entree dish. Mr. Car^ rad is .the assistant Clerk of tba Court, and is to be married shot tly. Dr. McArthrr, m making the presentation, made one of his characteristic happy speeches, and Mr. A. H. Holmes also spoke, wishing Mir. Carrad all sorts of good things.

Poor old"E. M. Smith, M.H.R. for New Plymouth is no more, and the Ironsand town will shortly be called upon to elect a successor to him. If the Government insist on' having nothing but a leaseholder, it is a certainty that the seat will go to the Opposition, but if Hall-Jones can silence Rab McNab, (remembering that .half a loaf is better, than' no bread) then the situation will be saved and a G-overnment candidate returned, even though he be a freeholder. Rumor says McNab will be very hard to appease and intends to make the G-overnment stand or fall by his Land Bill.

Mr. E. Arnold, J.P., notwithstanding his eccentricities and political ambitions, is a good-natured, charitable cove, who m his qoiiet way had done, and is doing, a lot for the ex-gaol-bird and the oppressed and the weary and the beery, who want to give it up. Arnold is a philantrophist that does not boom Ms many deeds ; but many a man, now back m the realms of respectability, can give the little basketworker the credit of having helped him back to the narrow path. Still the "Chief Justice" has been fooled many times and oft, yet his ardour m the cause of genuine Christianity is not damped one bit, U fact, it rather whets his appetite.

Miss Ada Ward, the "Converted Actress," attracted an audience said to number 2,000 persons at Wesley. Church, Lonsdale-street, Melbourne, to hear her answer the question "Can an Actress be a Christian?" Her answer was u No ; decidedly not," at which some faint "hear, hears" werp uttered. But Miss Ward got an exceedingly nasty jar when she asked all those who would m future never so to theatres "to stand up. She had very few of the 2000 present fa response. She then tried Georg© Reid's trick of asking for a show of hands but the show of hands against the theatre was as limited as the "stand up." Curiosity attracts the crowd/ to hear Miss Ward, but the gain to "Salva-' tion" so far is mighty limited Aft irreverent yokel wants to know what Mftss Ward did with all the monefl she accumulated when- on- th© stages