PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Miss Fooife, W& popular little Hebe wiho-u'sed to dispense/ all ' tlie, good things at the Duke of Edinfourg-h Ho tei, and who has lately been on' "a visit to Sydney, returned to this city, by, the Ma'heno last Wednesday. Mr "Jack" Williams, of "Pear's Soap" fame; is at present m. town, and is stopping at the Empire Hotel.- The bis fellow is looking" remarkably well, and, as .our. sporting' scribe, told him, he appeared to ke i "wintering well..'' • . •*■'*.' *. . I DeaMn will have none of ithe teaur bles m the old world. P.O.* DCL.'s and knighthoods may please Boodiers and dish-lickers well enough, tout he will go 'down to Australia and to death as plain Alfred. And when he dies let them write '.'Vox et praeterea nihil" over his tomb., . • . .» . •' . .-■'■. -The inscription of murdered millionaire Whiteley's tombstone, m Kensal Green Cemetery runs :— "ln memory of Wm. Whiteley?: born September, .29,. 1831, died Jan. 24, 1907. The Lord helped me." Even Millionaire universal providers ape religion, but m this case "lord" should have been cut m little letters, and "me" m capitals;, y ■ „ ■ •' ■ ■ • •■'.*. .'« </ Mrs Hoiman, the mb'ther of Mrs Evelyn Thaw, states that if her daughter had told War what 'she told Thaw and the jury 4t Would not have been necessary for ; Thaw to kill Stanford "White. She would have killed him herself. So it looks as if Stafford White "simply bad to~die,"as ihey say m "Sunday." Friend Bill Stantpn, who professes to cure cancer by prayer and other means not' recognised ., by: Jaw and .the ' meJdiiCa'l profession, ?lias ■feea »sent ; .;along to stand his trial on 'a chat-Re of manslaughter at Christchurch. No doubt Bill, m the meantime, ; will pose as a martyr. All these religious quacks do, and it is wonderful to what good use they, put their ad- | versity a \ I '■■'••' * .. ■ Jimmy Doyle, Inspector of Nuissahces, cannot find it, m has heart to summons anyone if there is any way out of it. "Truth" saw James talking "stoush" to a driver m Wil-lis-street the other day for being on the wrong side 6f the road, but when the fellow expressed his sorrow and promised never to offend again the Inspector's, heart softened and the driver got ofl s '„ .-. '■•-.«■ •• ■'■'„..- ,-• ■ Bunkum. Ben Tillett, %s. British labor' Reader, who is a<t present on a heaHh-recrui ting, sehekel-raisittp] vis-" it to Australia, has written tp. the Trades Council that, he expects to reach Wellington at. the end of July-, He is going to. give a series of lee-" tares m New 'Zealand under the aus-. pices of the Trade CounGil. Ben, no doubt, is an orator, though: he is a discredited democrat now,, • . * « ■ Tom Clarkson, formerly athletic writer to - the "Canterbury Times ,\' has • been appointed editor of the ■"Gisborne Times." . "Sprinter," (Clarkson's norn de plume) was an unusually well-informed writer arid a thorough sport. Ten years ago he was the champion cyclist of this colony, and what distances he didn't win were not worth mention-ins;. His loss will be a. severe one to amateur athletics m the Canterbury district. • • » Peter Dawson, the well-known Scotch distiller of whisky, has come to Australia and New Zealand. He and his wife are on a lengthy tour. Before leaving, the London Licensed Victuallers' Association waited on Peter at the Hotel Cecil, and made him a present of an artistic gilt scroll. When returning, thanks, Mr^ Dawson expressed his intention pf making a special study of the workr ing of the • Prohibition Act m New Zealand. -'.■*■. • - ■«■ V.-- V ' -The etiristehuroK Spiritualists' ohurch' has lately been the scene of. much spouting, mostly to . , empty benches. The gaspipe is named Joe' Taylor, who is said to have once '■bee* a parson,- but why he gave up that industry isn't exactly known. However, he yaps away on all sorts of subjects, geology, astrology, spiritualism and what-not.. At a recent meeting he .pretended to have all. to do with the spirit world, and gave messages purporting to be from the spirit of the late Mr Seddon— a whole string of them.; Taylor had -them pencilled down on a bit of paper, and they proved, to be sentences apparently culled from* the deceased statesman's speeches made m his life time. Yet thds precious fraud, Taylor, tried to make . his sceptical, audience, composed mostly ol petticoats, think that they were spirit messages, or something of that kind, from the oither world. Nobody believed him, but they admired his confoundefl#£heek m trying .to make people swallow his audacious statements. Taylor is understood to haw come tot Cbristchucch from Nelson^

"Sammy" Samson, that»v,smillflß 'little chap m the Ferry Company's .office, has gone for., a hoi&day. to Rumor, said thati hV had gone on his honeymoon, but the report is contradicted. ■"■■■■. • » • Gustav - Grenberg, who standschargod with perjury m connection! with, the pending chaarge of assault' against principals in'; a "two-up". : joint, was further remanded on Wed* nesday. on account of Mr. Wilford's illness. .....* : • • -■ ■-■■ ""■■ Tittle Bruno's husband is running' a domestic drama, <'For the child-fh ren's sake," at the iM&lhourne Bijou; Clarence is a greafr actor. Once > at Newcastle, New. South Wales, he Created a furore, but it- wasn't flowers that the audience heaved at him;- : v ' v; . *:.■ ■ ■ *'• ' • .■• ■•' ■ : • ' v.. .-." • 'It is not generally know. n that GL^ißussell-, of the Press Association^ was ,at one time a. prominent member of Turner's Opera Co. m the old country. Russell possesses-, p. tenor voice and has been commandeei^a^ by more than one-choir m New zflr land* ' * ■'■*■•■ ■ ;-.- ■'''"'X\. Maoriland has.'-distinguished itself m two places simultaneously. "^ Mis# Reeves, the daughter o£ MaQrikftd's High -Commissioner, has obta.in.6d'! ,a ■ first-class, with honors, m the mortal scienoes at • Cambridge. No malr '; student obtained first-class kqaors. How's that for the higher -education.-' of women ? s Murdered diam ond merchaiLt ■; B«,»«i; ! was pretty well-known m MftariffM^t, ■■$ and it is some years ago ".ij^f^.'-ifliSf . •-. he had trbuble-with the IJi^iQn, :^g, f ;C6;, s ..afe'ilSfeiiy P4y^Mh, ; when- a^&ts*?^ pf silver watches was heaved, outboard by some whaif laborer-. ArVefc--a lot of battling Bauer rc&arsroi compensation from the "Octbptts." ■ • •• ' • ; A" sister of Major von Tehipsky oecently paid a vdsit to tha battlrtWW of Te Ngutu o te Manu, wher» jj* distinguished Prussian lest • his nl» m aation against Tilokowaru's -Use^,-. During her visit she was ores&n-tIM-. with a greenstone axe, which waf dug out of the ground near the spttr where her brother was killed. .... * * '■*■ V ■■■' - : Tommy Wilford was suddenly, taken . ill shortly after luncheon an Ftfr day Aveek, 'and an adjournment ol th» divorce case, Johnson v. Bpnge was suggested , but Wilford decided 3(* : inconvenience a large number o£ people. He was obviously jufiaring; during the afternoon, and was --, ©t-^ liged to retire . on one occasion, but he addressed the ■ jury- with his cua- . tomary eloquence, and even: ijhft- / •French-American who is appearing; for Mrs Thaw m Noo Yark couldn't have won the case for Johnson, which, after all, ,is too familiar a.;. nsime to send to any jury „ with'; hopes of favorable ■consideration. Sir Joseph Ward, King Dick Sedi don's successor as ruler m Maori* land, is, it is not generally known» a native of Emerald Hill, Melbourne, says Sydney "Truth." When th® city by the Yarra Yarra was found-* ed, the hill, where the railway 1 sta-< tion m Spencer .Street* now >: is,- 'was, named Batman's ' Hill. The green knoll on' the south side ot; the -hilk?^ was some years afterwards nainedl; by an enthusiastic Irishman Emer-*. aid Hill. James Service, the grandsfather of heiress Knipe, over vWhOin much fuss is now made, Was nrs« Mayor and an early Parliamentary' representative of "the Hill." Th<* blacksmith-poet, John Whitemaji.- - also, hut later on, represented "th© Hill." An unpoetical peopjLe. AUer«b>v the green hill's, name to^South Mei*' bourne. Joe Ward's parents migrat* ed m the early sixties to Maoriland.Joe is m his fiftieth year, and has seen some ups and downs.' ' . '....■■• ' *. \ • Magistrate Riddell is improving on. acquaintance, from the point of view, ol the casual criminal. The law relating to habitual drunkard^ is. par- ' ticularly drastic. A man might . be .put away for a couple of vyears Who has merely a casual razzle^-thatS , is if he is run m while the razzleLi!*,on. There arc so many peoplewh^r 'razzle with glorious irresponsibility^; who are never arrested ; and it somebody made a point. of having them arrested a , promising tareec would be blasted, and a wife ah^ faniily would be left to face starvation ,ahd the stigma of relationship to a criminal. It Is probable the habitual criminal enactmant/ wasn't thought out when it was pas- . sed into law. At any ratejj Magijs-» 'trate -Riddell, who conceals ai human disposition behind a justifiable appearance of austerity, JssUecl fo,un prohibition orders on Wednesday, to four hard-working and merely ; temporarily disrespectable peoDle, ; who ■otherwise would be langui^hiitg| . iW a dungeon hell, or weilding iihepipW on useful but ineffective State work,' The Act requires careful scanning bj| . ouc capable and incapable legislators.