PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 99, 11 May 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

'Advocate Byres, .who represents Turffontein m the Transvaal Parliament, is a well-known ex-West Coast journalist. .*■__■» Sergeant Doogan, who has been m charge of the Nelson, police force for some years,,was m Christchurch during the last fortnight,' renewing; ac--quaiintance with his ' many old friends. '■'.'* * • ; Const. Simpson, of the Wellington Qolice force, who has for the. last couple of weeks been m charge of the NelsOn force; ; relieving /Serg't. Doogan, was last Friday entertained at a social by. his friends, prior, to his return to the windy City. Geo. Strnhhs, the /J,?.., of Napier, who excused him of* per.ury on the ground of drunkenness,* .has resigned from -the Commission of the Peace. It was quite unnecessary on Stubb's part though, others would have seen to his removal from the "Commission. " * ..»■•■. . •-% According to the WaipaWa "Mail"' Mr. Joseph Chicken whs' recently at Waipawa. The Chicken person is balmy on nands, and he has heen following the Besses o' th'; Barn, and has heen present at sixteen of their performances. It's about time now. that Chicken went to roost. •«. . • . BillyfToy has just yaca/t&d the position of Sub-editor of the "N^w Zealand Herald" (Auckland) to enter business on his own . a,cpount at Waiii as a sharebroker. /-Billy is a popular little sport m amateur circles, and every success is wished him m his new sphere of life, andi further that baiting bulls and bears will be more profitable than inkslin-ging. , • _ » «'. Dr ./ " Jimmy Hudson, the oldest medico m NeL_son, bas recently i-frrft=-ed out of tbe town, and ©one to reside at" Tadmore. It is said' that the "Doc" is worth about £70,000. whioh he has made out of the good People of "Sleepy 'Ollow," but to look at Mm and his,, red whiskers, old shilling straw .hat, and faded clothes, /one would take him to be some poor tramp, 'who could not raise two bob m the world. But there it is <; some people cannot appreciate gold, except by hoarding it up m a miserly manner. * * *■ Mr.. George Boyce, one of the old inhabitants of Nelson, paid a visit to Wellington last week.- "Grey-bea-rd". looked remarkably well and hearty, ar.d stated his desire • to run anyone his own ago (6&).- a mile. The veteran was born m 1843, and 1 , since that time he has always resided m the Nelson district. _ ; His pet boast to-day is that he can still take care of himself, and hbi'relates with 'great gusto of what he did to a, passenger on a boat who invited, him to play a gams of poker. :• ' .»'-'■ •-;■'"•■'■•.'- Cyclist C. F. Baker, of Christ-, church, has got- himself very much disliked over the Enfield Cup race got off • some time ago. There was a lot of , bother over that event, the " general opinion being that it was a schlenter. „. Baker wrote to one of the local napers saying that two memfceirs of the League of Wheelmen had taken a .prominent part m an arrangement as. to who was to win the race m -fjuestion. Piping hot this .; and the Council of the League got hot underneath their collective collar. They demanded that Baker should turn Vup at a meeting and substantiate his statements, and he* was written to to that effect, hut he disdafhed- to make a reply, so they wrote again,- and' there was *more disdain. Then they tent him a telegram, but he wasn't taking any, so the. Council met, and after speaking m rough terms about Baker's shocking allegations and wiped him out for life. So his cycling career is closed. ' -„ ' • ' ;■'.' * ' - '*-'•' It is officially ; announced* that A. D. Hassan, of. ,Cust, Oamterlw-ry., has resigned his appointment as v Jay Pee. This is the gay.:, and .festive Cust customer ; who was regarded as a model citizen, an upright man, a god-fearing- individual and a sackful of' other things until "Truth" show-, ed him up m his true character— that of a Lothario who had been carrying on with another man's wife at Cust. Prior to that grilling Hassan was not only Jay Pee, but • he was a lay preacher at church, and bossed tho Sunday scliool, teaching the Cust nippers the way m which they should go. But it is said that he has given bible banging 'hest. His actions m this particular line were always hypocritical .He moißthed oant by the ton and— ran after his neighbors wife. I-lassall doesn't even now inveigh against beer as. he used wihen he posed - a s a -ya-bid,- resting, roaring t prohibitionist. He is. very quiet now. Whether he resigned the Jay PO3 ship of his ; own accord,- .or was asked to do "so hy- the y Justice Department is known' ciiiy ; to 'him- . self, but he has been: a ibtfgi time iMnkf sg &&bu<t $■$ ftsyfcew>. " „

Maud Beatty, ., play in* m comic, opera m America, appeared at the. opening of the first theatre rebuilt! aft*tr ike -bi& 'qtiake im 'Frisco, * * • Clyde ©ook, the boy dancer, now. showing m Sydney, is said to be a. marvel on his feet.' . One naper saya' he has all' the tricks of Johnny Cole-* mans aad ? ; syb^ele lofit Johhuy never. ' thought of.. • • ._. . • - ■-• -.' 'J. H. Blackwell, elected Mayor o£ '-' Kaiapoi, the place where the suits come from,, is takine on the job for the second time. He -is native born is Blackwell, and his 'father was Mayor before him • '■• ■ • • Trask, M.L.C., who went-yhome' i-n the same boat as Mclntyre, of Exhibition fame, cabled i:o his people •m Nelson that all was well as. far as Monte Video. The cable made ho 1 reference to /Mclntyre. "'...-.•* » • Ther smallest man m New Zealand .. is Judge Chapman's son, who is one . Of the colony's dwarfs. Withal he ' is 'f-enial little cuss, one of the best m fact,, and he is a general favorite with- whom he happens to associate., «-t■ ■ • ■ Geaeral Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, is married- into at rebel family. His wife is softie kind of a relative of Robert Emmet,, aifd he is a distant kinsman of Irish . lawyer, t Isaac Butt, whose grandfather -was of Dutch origin, the name of Botha becoming: Butt m Ireland. * * ... * Mr. Thomas Bell, of Murchison, one of the victims of the. Brooklyn tram accident, is well knewn, and very highly respected all over the Westy Coast, and has re^sgfvt;bd.t^e-_.__. _ Murchiseri. Riding for .ov&; twenty-one . years. i_HeJi^---ha^ charde hard roe to hes during iibhe last i... . feyr Years, as m addition jjj^ Ms healtii! . breaking down, he has. buried a son and dauehter, and now a wife. The latter was interred at Richmond oh Monday last, and her funeral waslargely attended by people from the West Coast. . • * • On ipril 9th,* 1857 (says the Taranaki "News"), a Lieutenant Jones jeined the Royal Egmont Lodge of Oddfellows as an honorary, member. That was the first • meeting, of the lodge. Although . Joneses are oft^n' said to be as plentiful as blackberries, not another Jones was entered on the, books until April 9th., 1907, exactly fifty years later. Jubliee H. F. Jones" joined at the "meeting when the ledge was celebrating its jubilee. There was a Brother Smith at the first meeting, another joined m the next year* and a third a couple of years later. Not another Smith has ibeen initia/t---ed into the lodge sinoe. *.' *- • . • '. . D. C. Mclntyre, who has fceeh arrested at >;, Monte Video fdr alleged embezzlement of Exhibition monies,; used to run a pickle factory ia Christchurch, and now he is m . a nice- pickle himself. How he came so be employed m a responsible billet at the big show isn't known, but at all events, he made pretty miiph. of an ass bf himself, and wasn't particular how be obtained money so long as he got it. Many a persbn secured an award if they, "listened to reason," and . handed over a "consideration."' There are mahy yarnd now current" about Mac wnichf are ' not m his. favor, but still any number of people are sorry he has been collared. He far more ; popular m the big building than Mugwunp, Munro, and the two men never hit it at all. It is thought by some, that Mclntyre may open his mouth to a pretty considerable extent on his return, and that if he does more than one person will be m the soup.; Mclntyre left his family behind him, : and sold all his 'furniture ere he departed, petting a nice siim for? it.. He is alleged to have employed men to pack it into a van, and to unload it at the auctioneer's, and; never opaid0 paid e\en them. His othe»tl creditors are owing a pretty considerable /amount, and they may get some sort of a div. *if the gentleInan has much moiiey ahout his person, and he should -have, teo, aos cording to all accounts. There. wa# .o. touch of humor about the publication, of the. - balance - sheet of the Mclntyre Testimonial ' Fund; the other morning.. It showed' ; that £113 6s Gd was sul* scribed, and of this Mac got fifty, quid ih solid .cash.. . The gold presea™ taticm watoh _ which was given hiiil cost twenty-five * quid-, and then theft was; ten guineas paid for the illuJH* f«ated address,- which said so iii»«y| nice things about him. The gfog aim cigars consumed at the farewell wincing ran into over twenty flot*!©;; the compaiiy had it' rbrty time §vt that festive evertiag. It will 8o» j doubt .interest McTntyre] that there., is< i still a couple' of left tb hi* credit m the b*ftk- m- §oftSfleison_ v^itft