PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Westport reports the death of Mr Alured Stephen, who was the first white man to settle on the West Coast. ' . , -» • ..•'.■"•'' . ! Lady Plunket has been, gazetted Hon. Colonel of some butterfly shootins Mounted Volunteer Riflefe somewhere down Canterbury. . Why isn't the joke made complete by making Bill P. a /fullblown private: - • ••.•■■ ■.■ • Tte town of T-aufanga- ' went one better than most towns of New Zealand at the. Mayoral elections- by elevating, . the Rev. Canon.' Jordan mr to the Mayoral throne.. No^» one/can: expect Tauraoga's Council to qß©n. its/ meeting; with prayer, . , *- v • ■• '- • ■ '■ ■ J _,'*■■ ■ William Perry of/recent ..biorama fame is not, a Salvationist, - and al- . though a brother of -Major, 'Perry -has no connection with the •blood, and fire show. The Salvation Perry showed his Christian charity by promptly announcing that he had nothing to, do with -the; other fellow , Williams' troubles! ' The army keeps their patrons too poor to i be any. good to' private enterprise any way. • •'.■•'■«■■■■,' '••.. v The fact, thiat .the, shareholders, m t-h-e Bank of New Zealand intead. asking Parliament for legislation to enable them to declare a '. larger div. has got on to the 'nerves of Harry Ell, M.H.R. of Ohiistchuroh, : whose hobby is the nationalisation of idlings m general and the B.N.Z. m particular. He is dead set oh that, and is oircularisin'g local bodies about the matter, desiring pressure to he placr { ed on the Government to get them to buy out the {shareholders and make it a public concern. • ■ • '..".*■" The real name of Captain Jackson Barry, who died at Christehu'rch . at the age of S8 last* ws^f^^s« ! s^' berry, but why he ohah^bH 1 ' Ms idonniker isn't known. The old chap was a whale on spinning; yarns, and seeing what he went through m the colonies m, the old, roaring days few were better qualified to do so. Barry's latter career was a somewhat chequered one. He was onoe Mayor of Cromwell where he is reputed to have 'bossed the meetings of "the Council with his fists, .whenever it was. inclined to he recalcitrant. When a young man, the deoeasffd led a pretty? fast life, and he made and lost any quantity of splosh. His occupations multifarious ,v and he died poor. ' • • • Mrs Henderson who died m GhristchuTch this week was a humanitarian, and always had thought for the sufferings and sorrows of others. Wheri she first joined the > Charitable Board male members looked askance, but - they - soon discovered, what a power for good she was. The deceased was one' of the founders of the Children's Aid Society, one of the committee of the Female .Refuge, _ a member of the Samaritan .Home Board of Management, and;one of tha founders of the Canterbury; Women's Institute. In fact she was on?, of the most energetic of . public worsen m ChTistchurch and her death is" de-' plowd. Deceased was the wife of Mr, A. Henderson, of the firm of RoSs arid Glendinning. ■• Some superoillious soft-spoken coir lege-bred snob named De La Mare, who is some sort of an ! ink-waster m, some obscure corner of the Colonial Secretay ' s Department entertains a very lofty and noble contempt for this much maligned, misquoted and misguided journal, and would as soon tar his da;intily tipped fingers as touch "Truth." Now this paper's opinion of such people isn't really printable, nor does it give a Well-ing-tJonian two-penny damn what Da , La Mare's opinion is* so 'long as' he keeps it to himself. There is nothing like having a silent contempt and De la Mare ought m future .to keep , his tongue from "wa-iv^ttg. so furiously, otherwise some things beneath contempt of ot\hers, connected with football circles, concerning. Mr vDe la Mare, might not he found' to be beneath the contempt of "Truth." In her work of raising funds' for the Home of Compassion at Island Bay, Mother Mary ' Aubert walked from the City to Paekakariki and canvassed the various homesteads along the , route, calling at Porirua, Paremiata, Pahautaniii and reaching Paekakairiki after traversing the big hill. For j&n. elderly female this m itself wouM he, quite a tope achievement ; birt the good Mother who uous efforts on behalf of the afflicted is quite indefatigable m, her strenhad not completed half her journey, for after Paekakarilci had been visited she walked back to Piihautaoai. and thence via Judeeford aivd -Haywards to the Upper 'Htitt- Needless to say she was received everywhere good wilj and open purses ivnd the excellent work m which she, "is .engaged has considerably -benefited thereby. There is something sftout Mother Mary a/nd her Sisters of the Poor which compels admiration and as Dickens would say God's love upoft that aged face, God's blessing "on her work,

Mr Slade Murray gave a taste of his quality as a billiardist/ ; oii Mr Ben Fuller's private table " one night last week, when he put. up a break of 497. Drop cannon and Ma&v sey, Harris barred. •■■■-.' r '■■ ! •• *-• *■ . " " ■ rl * l - Mrs Hannah King Letherage, the first white woman born m New Zealand, died recently, at her resident at Tepuna, near Russell, aged ninetyone years. The poor old lady had been invalided for some time. Mrs M'Villy, the. .lady bowler en.thusiast, was presented by the Mayoress, Mrs T. W. Hislop, on behalf of the Ke'lbwrns Ladies' Bowling Club, with a pair of bowls m recognition' of h3i* services to the club during the season. Mrs M'Villy is very popular among th-p lady sports of W.cllingtco as -her hus-'car.d is m all .athletic circles.' : r ■ v • « • . Mr Ben Fuller -received a* letter last! mail from . brother Johiiny from some unpronounceable place m SwitzerlandHe will visit Berlin, Brussels and Parismnd then ship across to London., It will be hard luck. if Master Johnny ' can't pick up some new ideas, and novel-ties m those gay cities. Brussels and Paris produce 1 some gems m the variety business. r =» .a.'..'- nLawyer Kippenbereer, 'vr-'io died m Christchurch t'other night, was a Bavarian, but came out' to the colony young, and was m tuirf newspaper office clerk, farmer, law office cleric,'. and then solicitor. He spoke with a marked Jewish accent, and was distinguished m no line of .life except when Kaiser Bill made • hiia German Consul m a city m which Consuls x are of not much account, but K'ippenberger wasn't a uad s»ri , all the same. -„ ..'. v Brave d'2«'ds. should^ never jie-f«rgot- c ten and their -memofjr " should Mever bs kept green. The "Hastings Standard" recently published the following; "In Memoriam."— Arthur McCartney, Fred Cassin, Sergeant O'Donovan, Constable Stephcnson, H. G. Otoern, J. H. PreTsToie^G- Chambers, F. Ansell, H. Brierly, and J. Rose, who were drowned on the 16th - April. 1897; while, endeavouring" to assist those m great danger from ' flood. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life fdr his friends." _- ■ , . • ; „ . t . . The Hon. William Pember Reeves, the sarcastic gentleman who acts as High-Commissioner -m London, has received notice from the ScottishOceanographical Labora(tory that ther«| are sundry bottles floating about" m the oceans of the world and that one of them "might strike the coast of .-..- --iiitis colony. The bottle, so the Ocean- - ograpiricaiists assert, will .when picked up', tell us'all about -ooe&n currents. If they neally want. these bottles . picked up they should have given William'" a -fiver to "be handed over to the first kid to land , the prize.. • • '•■.'-• 7 Boei : General "Bb'Jilia.r. wio". fought agaihst Britain m the South' African war, according to the English cables, now gets ah' income of ££,000 per year. "How. Britain forgets her -V en■'mity ?" comments a daily papers. Byt this has another side.- Recently a worn-out warrior, who was o ne of the gallant six hundred .of Balaclava, was picked up . starving m the : streets of London, and was butifd m a pauper's grave. He fought for Ena;---1 and; the former against it. Also m ths Sydney Police force at present as sn ordinary constable is an cx-sol--dier,who > went to Africa second mi n ' command of a /contingent, repoived the Distinguished Service Order, and was for a time A.D,C. to an Australian Governor. Till be got • his policeman job he was r ractieaUy starving. •• • ' A curious old cuss, who has a rat . .soampeffing about his hair, is one T ~ ■Joseph Allen, a grey l>eard, whe knocks round Christchurch, and takes off his: hat to all and sundry including cab horses and the. Halsweil steam puffer, and takes -a- beer now and again. Hops beat him m a walk the other day, and on the following morning he acted so peculiarly when brought, before the - Magistrate, that he wways y remandCid for a week. H» also played the fool m the prison yard* but appeared to be more amonable to reason at the expiration of seven clays when iiis wife iurncd up and said that her darling husband wasn't given to strong beverages that occasionally exalt the huctiWein :<m(aginat ; on to things sublime. Tho lady said that hub"by had had c6noussion of the brain twice, and was absent-minded at times. She didn't know how he came to bo boozed. "Wfeo ]re*ps h-im?" asked the bench. "I do" "was tie reply. "Huve yon private means?" "Yes." "AVhal 'about issuing: a prohibition order •-.- gainst him?" "That Wouldn't he Hip slightest good." "Who do von thmk gave Mm t'heHo;:if;r?" aslccd tho -'.:ife. "Ask me sotnething easier ti'on Ihpt ' retorted Beak Bishop, who ibcr, flisbhar>ged the man will) a um-y saMc-i caution and senfe him home with his wife.