PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 100, 18 May 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Fifty-three years ago last Sunday, during the Crimean War, H.M. Sflidp Tiger (Captain Gilford) imas wrecked at Odessa, and the cre,w , were, taken prisoners. One of the su'tvivors, Mr Riobard May, resides m Auckland.. ••■. * ■ i Horatio Nelson was the name of a juror excused 'tfrom -'doing- duty- • at the Criminal Court this week. New Zealand expects every man to do his duty, but Horatio was sick, and accordingly was relieved . from further attendance. „:..,, , , , • ••• « . « There is trouble looming ahead for ' one William Gillat, otherwise- William Brown, a Wellington ■''policeman-, who is charged with having committed perjury m a sly, grog, prosecution. G-illat has , been vematiided till, the, end of the month. \ ■ ■ ■ . ' ■ ■ ■ > • * * '. . ■ •'. ' " ' •' " Barrister M. J.. Donnelly, ofChristoburoh, has been laid up- on asick bed during the last few weeks, but he. is V now pulling round all right. A comparison between' medical and law costs should afford" him: relaxation when he struts the streets again. ' '■■■■' ■■ '■ . '„■■■- . '' : N f * •'■••■'■, '*"' . ■•■■-, Captain James • who died at ChristclitiEoh./ \%e' otlwr day, was one of the ftirUie'^t . I^yttelton settlers, arriving ifc\are about forty-nine years ago. ' He was a Poineer m the Banks Peninsula trade, and 1 owned a number of small •■■' vessels at different times. Deceased was seventy-three at the time of his death. „ . • .« ■ >/J . : Chief 'Tec. Mcllveney / has left these shores for Monte Video to bring Mclntyre back, if he can. Under ordinary circumstances, Mclntyre caainct- We ibjack hei«^iin : tiL I .^^.rly- m" September. But df Mac. has ' money he . mipht • beat his pursuer, the Monte Vid^o 'police force is notoriously rotten, n d for a consideration, a 1 pretty big one, they' will wink t'other eye. Such things haveI happened before to-day. • < Tom Wilford, according to Mr. Justice Cooper, ,aa\a;ued ingeniously the other <lay on' the word repute m th/ 3 Police Offences Act relating to rogues md vagabonds, m the Criminal Court ■■ on Monday last. Tom wanted! (o tell Hisonah what Parliament iv ally meant, and being a legislator offered to give the Parliament's intention,., but the Judge wouldn't have it, and took Parliament's intention from the interpretation of another Judge. , . ■ *'■• * ■ * "lan McLaren" (Rev. John Watson, D.D.) dead of blood-poisoning, \ following an attack of tonsillitis. He dfied at Mount Pleasant, lowa, U.S.A., and it is any odds that the factor' to blood-poisoning was intro- . duced by some Yankee operaitingcraze doctor, who mauled and raahg-, led the great thinker and fascinating writer's throat hi his ...profound^ search for a swindling fee of confi-dence-man proportions. •.• • ■ Lawyer Cuthbertson, who was struck off the roll at Wellington the other day, at the instance of the Law Society, owing to a conviction for theft m South Africa, used to 'practise ajt Asbburton, where he was very well known • too well known m fact. He went, to South Africa as Lieutenant m one of our "gory, 'farmburning contingents, and he forgot to come back. There arc any number of people at Ashburton who are .anxiously a,wai'tin>g his return,, according to all (accounts. His liabilities ran to a pretty fair sum, and he wan glad of the opportunity afforded , him,, of getting: away to another, clime. His wife went to Australia after his departure, and when he settled down he sent for her. -She was led to •believe that he was doing well, having 'struck a patch, but the I patch, he seems to have struck -was ieaol. i ■ * • • General Botha, the new Transvaal, Premier, is married to -a lady who was a Miss Emmet, and who is somewhat inaccurately described as 1 (joins- "a descendant of the Irish patriot." . This .has given rise to the nuite^ erroneous impression that Mrs Botha is a descendant of Robert Emmet, who was executed m Dublin m 18Q3 for open rebellion. Robert Emmet died a bachelor, as everybody knows who reniemtoers Washington Irving 's touching sketch' of "The Broken Heart." It is from Thomas Addis' Emmet, the elder brother oE Robert; that Mrs Botha is descended. He, too; was a United Irishman, and spent some years m the hands of the British Government as a prisoner. On his release from the Scottish fort where he was confined he made his way to New York, and thrived there as a lawyer. His descendants are to be found there to-day, and one descendant, as has been mentioned, is the wife of the Prime Minister ol the Transvaal.

_Gaoler SeTerne, who died at, Mount Eden last Friday, was' GG years of ?ge, and had' been stationed at Auckland for, the past six rears. He was formerly principal warder at Napier,, and had spent the greater part of his life m the prison service. , "■-•.■.* » „' Native Minister Carroll, wh 0 has been electioneering in -the Taranaki district for the last couple of weoks, returned to town on Wednesday evening. He was accompanied by . the Hons. McGowan and Millar, vibo were m. the Auckland district on Ministerial business. ■-•■* * «■ * •What is = the ■ matter with Amy Castles,' that her niuch-vaiintefd-opera season m Yarmanyis postpone* until the Autumn. Appears as if she 'had been nothing but a postponement since she , went away a lauriiingV girl. Now she's -a fat. matrc<nly-looking woman, and very little forrader.- - • '. • • ' ■■ ' « -. . ■ ! Rufe . Naylor and .his protege, 8., |R. Day, the Irish professional, ar- • I -rived • in Wellington from WesUUia on Wednesday last, and prodded straight to Dunediri, where Hay shortly. meets McLachloA, th> . Maorila-ftd champion, on the c^cmr - track. "Truth" hopes that ev3.vthing will te^fair and above Iq\tA. and not 14k© the Westraliaa liaicc?, ■ • > - ■ • » — ■■- ■ Mr. Winston Churchill entertain** the Colonial Premiers,, ait a L»mret' on Monday. Mr. Churchill q*?w» : something to Australia, for did t# . not wed a dauffhiter of Sir "Sul- ' mon" Wilson, the wool-king of Vie^ toria, who had some refiscttd sjlory through cccupyic.2; Hugh.en.den, Msn.cr, the former residence of L»rd DHlsr>veli Beacqxisaeld. Churchill abft:wtf©- ■ did ..eom-o. .jouriuiiisfcic. work m !soa^t „ Af dca; v T!v3^ hus-baird-, it is pra*iGief!. ~ will one diy be P-rfme' Minister ' ■ <& PJnglaaid. He's about the l,est of I^3 Ohurchills— t-he best of a bad lot, ia fact. ■•.•', • . ' « What an ass the Law can, wifciout ?ny great f-ffort, be mada t« appear. Last . Monday Air. J*st: : es> Ccoper had an cl-i confimeu %V<M before him, whom he gave '.i.ica years and dscluied' to b ; b, an ha.liual criminal. There were a l-rsj3 : nufaiter_ of previous ocn -actions accinst the old . wretch ,' -'and .gk-c of the s-3-nt-eaces on him had -Veen passed by Justice Ccouer, who Wanted the conviction legally proved, as he could not take cognizance of tho fact that he had been sentc-ncod by, himself. . ; "" • p ' • ■ •■ ' • A horrible accident nearly happen%y last,; ; wlieri ? 'Gowrs|l^Wilf6rdf^y si^ inadvertance, donned Crown Prosecutor Mvers' gown. When Mick discovered the error he was after Tom like mad, and would not wear Tom's , gown just for a lark, and it did not even appease him when it was sug- . gested • that ■ the charade ci gowns, would bring either or both luck m their respective . spheres, which was •pretty rough anyhow* on the-prison-er at the bar. It's worse than having drinks on the result. • * « i ■■ .- Allan Locke, a young American negro, has won a Rhodes scholarship. He is 21 years of age, an.i is a resident of PMladelp-hta., He is sl senior at Harvard, where he is completing a four wears' course ia three years, after . gaining four scholarships. Locke and four white Competitors ' passed the qualifying examination for the scholarship out o£, a total of fifty candidates represent-' ing Pennsylvania's selection. Thecommittee speedily decided that! Locke's merits outshon those of his four white rivals. The. father of the successful student is a lawyer. It is this class . of nigger that, America has io fear, and no doubt the color line will be drawn against him sooner, or later. It's up to Nett Zealand to produce a Chow scholar. That would just about fill tliis country's cup of bliss to overflowing. And it will come, too ! • • • New Zealand's Premier, 1 Sir Joseph Ward (says "Sydney Truth"), while visiting St.. Paul's (London) to select a site for a monument to the late Kang Dick Soddon. was intercepted by a 'number of schoolboys, wJi o demanded' a speech, anil fpr five minutes the "crypt rang with : a message of advice arid hope." ' Sir Joseph is a native of Emerald Hill, now known as South Melbourne,, born In 1857. Went to . Maoriland m childhood (the '61 rush), and at the ag» of thirteen entered tho postal '«WV vice ; at sixteen he went ' into a merchant's office, and at twenty tried the railway servioe. A couple of years afterwards he started as a grain exporter/ at which he was highly successful ; fell upon evil times, temporarily, but rebounded, paid /everybody m full, and again flourished. He has been m Parliament twenty years, and has held many" offices, municipal, commercial, military, and Parliamentary. Sir Joseph, from; experience, is wall fitted to advise schoolboys and e-ive them hoDe.