PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL PARS.

Dr. Fincllay, K.C., Mr Bell, X.C.-< Mr Skerretl), K.C., Mr Chapman; K.C. It looks Well m print... Hurrah for Casey !, . * * • Last Monday was the anniversary of Dick Seddon's death. Even now people are asking who was Dick Seddon ? N.Z. mourned its illustrious dead for about a month. Nevertheless, Digger Dick has left his mark where it can never be effaced, on the Statute Book" of the colony. ' /■ ■ -. ■" . • -•" ■ By reason of his office. Mr Lowtheri thfe Speaker of the House of Commons, enjoys a salary of £5000 a year, a lordly house at Westminster, £100 a year for stationery, and two hogsheads of claret and 2000oz of plate onolection. It is his pleasant duty to entertain, m batch- , es, during each Parliamentary session, the members of the great political parties. Tcimmy Hairier, the popular Undersecretary of Mines, has been laid Up with sciatica for the past two or three weeks and is only just getting about again. "Sci" . seems to mark a lot of civil servants as its own, and T.H. has not been the only victim> m the Government Buildings, as Uoder-Secretary for Justice Waldegrave, another esteemed public official, has also been under. ..•■■•. • • . Miss Monteith, a dainty looking girl from Hokitika, who is the first person of her sex to invade the realm of Cbste in' Wellington, caused perturbation im the cbUective male legal breast a>t the Police Court, Tuesday. Dr. Me Arthur warmly oongra'tulated the smiling solicitor, arid hoped he would see her often. She applied for an adjournment of one small case, tot more ijiiportdtnce s»omed to be attached to the circumstance than -.to any other happening of moment m the day's proceedings. • ■• ' ■ -•■ ■' , .-'..*■■• • • -,' ■ What did the -demented- pr."v* .■;,'■ John A. Dowie, do with all his i'.allars ? If anything was left, the dupes of the Zion Church must have got it, as his widow — the prophetess —is m desperate ' straits, and is running a cheap kind of hash-house m Michigan. Dowie, the old devil, led a sinful life, and. spent his. spare dollars on his fancy females. He seems to have hart his eye on Crladsfcone ' "NeverHj-een-kassed' 1 ' Dowie's millionairess wife, and "Gladdy" Very naturally got ropeafole. The old fraud must have "forgiven" Gladdy, as he left him 10 dollars under his will. ■ ,■ • » • '„:..' Professor Salmond, who Was: appointed to the' position of Counsel to the Law Drafting Department, will; no doubt, justify the selection. .In the past,. ■ experience has bitterly shown that sctoe of the Bills presented to > the House have "been drawn up m a fashion that would disgrace Tom Wilford's oMce boy. A sound and .painstaking" man was badly wanted m the pepa.i->tiri^it, AxuA. the Professor prom>ises to fill that bill. H6 is experienood enough* and Legiislators iiiigihi bless him, 'but then- some Legislators arotoo thick-skulled to read anything, but the amounts on their monthly cheques. ■ ; „ .;• . • '•..-'■ • • ■■ ■ ' •v Poiitical talk just now is the to,ro"bability of Acttng-Premier Ha/U-Jones retiring from active Ministerial service, through, of course, his present indisposition. Such secession from political life on Mx Hall-Jones' part would be a severe blow to the Government) who oamno-t. 'just, now 'afford to lose the Services of one of its mainstays, particularly as the Ship of State is likely to pass through troubled Waters' ere a safer haven is reached m November or December next. The fiuid-MMics are very busy m waminig- the Miwisijer for Railways and Public Works' successor. The names of Geordie Laurenson and A. L. D. Fraser are being .freely mentioned. ■ ■. ■.'■" , "'■'•'.' .' '■■ •■'.-...•' '• We used to ihear when Dick Seddbn was on deck that he was the Ministry, and that nothing could be, done unless li© was at the helm. Times have changed, arid Sirjoe Ward, no doubt dashing across the Australian Commonwealth and across the Tasmanl to assume the reins of Office, and resptfhsitoiiity, after his Imperial jUnkettings, will be bxpecWd to draw up the Ministerial programme When the big talking shop bpe-ns at the end of the montt. Rumor, hovc«&ver, hath it, that the said programme is drawn up already, which shows that it is the tail that is wagging the dog. With Sirjoe in^'Lunnon'* and and Actin.2j-Premier Hall-Jones laid aside by illness, it is quite evident that .Timmy Carroll and colleagues have strewn that Joe Ward, is not Dick Seddon. Nothing like that would have happened under Dick's sway.;' The : "cussin«-in" of the X.C.'s last Monday morning was declared by; Mr Justice Cooper to be an historic event. After all, it meant that the learned legal gents ware called to the inner bar after- being sworn. There was no necessity for it, however, as the inner bar is .the front benches of the Court, and the learned X.C.'s were, there before Hisonah called them, a fact Hisonah even noticed. • ■ * • A. S. Ford, of Coromandel. has invented an apparatus whereby lusoious beer may be pumped from the nether depths to the "bar through glass-lined pipdng. At prfeseat the ©a.i'ly-^nyoto.iiig tojtet g^ts a. solu-Uoti of alcohol, 1 brass, and lead from the pub that forgets to 'Mraw off" the liquid that has been standing, all night, and A. S. F.s invention promises to effect a big saving both m beer and mineral poisoning. A.S.s initials' caused him to* be known as "two-thirds of the truth," bUt he is a lonig way from being an ASS, although the good old syndicate gets, hold of most of 'his inventions. One time he invented a stt?am syren that used to run up a musical scale, and he got into communication with the Admiralty ' With the Object Of revolutionis'toi'g the sound signals of the Navy, but the War OfHM fell asleep when it realised the magnitude of the innovation. To this (lay, ■if the British capitalist is. Still on i>lve premises, the syren at on€ Of the mines m Ooromaiulel ' plays •'Annie Rooney" anrt "Nearer my God to Tbe^"- on *h« gligbtisftt pr-ovee»tioni

Charlie Skerrett, X.C. f who, aeoording to Jwtioe Cooper Is the tnostt popular man at the Wellington bar* was aibsent from Wellington on Monday last,, and was *'sweaied-in"- a<tj' Auckland;; N • « Major Taylor, the nigger cyclist, gets a shrewd hit .back at those low-class millionaire Yanks who put him out of the Paris Hotel, . They» whose millions were made out of the sweat and blood of. my slave ancesr tors. Taylor put it m decent French, too, and that's more . than any, one of the Boodlers could do. ■* *■••:' George Humphries, of the Press Association staff, who has been station* ed m Wellington for the past eigte teen months has resumed- charge t>t the Association's agency at Cable Bay, Nelson, relieving Bit. Russell, who comes over tor the : 'sessional work. George will hardly likethjß change. Nelson, "Sleepy Hollow," is too dead' for life-lovers as Hum* phries. Anyhow, life is what one makes it, and George is sure to do his best to make it suit him, even m Nelson. ' : - ■■■'.• •■■-■•:;.■■ ■/.•■ ; ■ "■. ■ Cohstafclo Wm. R. Irwili, of Wellington, who died last . Stinflay alternoon m the hospital, was only a young fellow, m fact quite babyish m appearance. Some time ago he was operated on for some internal complaint, and recovered sufficiently to resume duty. However, one day. last week' he suffered a relapse, and was removed to the hospital. Irwin was the Brakings of a capable young officer though he at one time , seemed imbued with, a too deep sense of his responsibilities. The youhg officer always is, and it wears off m due time. Irwin only a young, and fairly popular chap, but the Grim Reaper docs not always take ihai sort Of thing into consideration. Wowserism m New. Zealand is to receive an impetus* and Jay Jay North hadbetter look to it, lest, as the chief strife-raiser he is riot biße,d but into the -cold. Wanganui Baptists recently "called" for r tenders for a new Baptist Pastor, and the call was heard jn far away Perth by Pastor A: A. Wilson, and he is losing no . time m ; getting across. Wilson is a wowser of the wildest type, and his.! pet aversions are the tote and ■ "Truth." >As a gospelgrinder he is jhard to heat, and thY hasty North berson ot Vivia4-street Will soon Jfina jhlimself ousted ak Pope bf the N. 2 .. Baptists r;Ahyhow, Why does , Wanganui was a^ new pastor, what v 'happened! to the 6fri ■ 6we ? , ■■'■■■■••' ".-I ■' >» ' . ■■;*■";•'■] . •T-he Presideiit of- the. Assessm-eH Court- at. Hofatika gets' tired of the enhanced {value- (giVen to properties by good [old sentimeDt. ,/ Ofc Michel, of Kbiferangij who- is pipb* ably. a relative of Tom.sed<lon'santagonist, if hi .. isnAt the i antagonist, objected ■to tie valuation on his farm, and. the Court offered to buy tt from him&i the price.. Miciifel^aid he wouldn-t rkrt with Ms honve A<x ' coiißide i rably n\ore tha;h its valujs. as it would drive his sons but ,Qf 'West-land. T-hb .caustic president remarked that le could appreciato, sentiment m connection with a man's home, but whfjre did sentiment come In, .or "what (was the halo of rottiahce) 'surrounding a cow farm ? It's m the monthly cheque, for sure,. • ■''. /■.♦■■■.'■■ "V V' •. -'/ "■• ■:'';. Minister foi Education Ppwlds lias been reminisce ising, some of latfe, anki at a recent gathering of wowsers, fie gave an accouit of his life as a Christian. He saifl he had started life ip. Scotland as a Presbyterian; When Us went out to Sbutii Africa the nearest place of worsMp m his locality' .of settlement was a. W-esleyan ; Mfeiftodifct Ohuroh, and is became a Wesleyij;ii, and he did not Arid '-the change ii\ any Way upsetting. Subse^Ufrntly. . at Capetown; he vas lna.iti.ed/1n: a Congregational Ch uroh' ; and, on, settling m Auckland he had become a Co&grS- .. gationalist, finding tlieir church pnerr ing the widest door, and m that bhurofi foe hatl now rested for twentytwo years. Quite so. The Q6ti&e&k> tional Church pays 'best/ "ba-t what a shifty religioiist the habtftfasher is to he Sure. A. man who lias sampled • so many f religions" eahnbtlje trusted, but After nil, .politicians don't much m utter. Evidently Fowl-da haij. 'found tvfhat brand politic* , pays best. •'foe Nonconformist conseisnee foecones; very easy, when it finds Wfoat sMts.it, and the "It" tsj generally £.3- i>. ' ' . The three i.O'.'s, sworn m iasi Monday mor; ing before,, Mr Justics Cooper w«re itudies as th€»y took the oath 'of allegiance, or whatever the affair is callel. Dr. Findlaywas very serious, and • rep&ated the oath m- a hollow-sounid hg funereal manner, as if he was •reel'ins off his buri.a'l ..'service* instead of .having conferred' on him one of the greatest dignities; of the legal pfcofessi >n. The * Jtidge declared it !t<> be the blue riband of the pr6-i fesslon,, a»d»' ' f "iTruth" can be pardoried for pbnting out the amomalyv it ougflbtt to be mentioned that ttio blue -riband, s g&nerally given to thi«e-year-olc s, but then, Hisonah meant well. Martin Chapman's eyes twinkled merrily, aml'he accepted the honour m a true Christian spirit. Ho looked a noile old war-horse, and silk should s it him .well.- Of H. -D. F. Bell, it must ialso.(ber«ffiiarked' that his •ikn'ncast eye Sand sble'miv visage betok) ned anything . out a glorious apipreci ition of a glorious aijtd liiistory-oipiakii s occasi<M^, tt . D . , "bpweV;b t, ( wafe <[M lie on th«l alert* and when the R?e jistrar, who, too, seem-» ed over-awed by the soiemnfty of the occasion, ma le a mistake m Bell's Christian nai ie. he Was promptly corrected. The ; C .C.'s will all have to carry their i' niors around with them when before iie Court, , and the joy, thereat is grc it m the jirnior bar cir« des. That. . 1 5sertion of the X.C.'s, not to' t«i,ke tee or w&ge -of no man m any cause a,eplnst the King seemed to immen ely please the Junioigb some of 1 "are now hoary ■■■mm gtey, and Wie r r«b%ed their hmU im ftfee w^en emphasis was lai* on tfcat port on of $fee oath, the iwembera of tie junlotbat* as not S6 PAtfelcivlaf t re m whom they take a fee or V6W. Tfte K.O. 'swill prove a eißftt boon td mpyat the bar that "Truth" wot! of. AilvhoWi Why .fl!4 Martin Chßpt an keep his left iknA m his pocket wlien taktftg the <a*^ te it fti> om»ous sign?