PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 116, 7 September 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

It is said that when . Mclntyre landed mi n Christchurch he looked tired after his long ocean tramp. J(! * * It is reported m Christchurch that Mr Schoefield, late of Coker's and the Cafe, is to be appointed manager of the Empire m Wellington.. „ * * '- * A friend of the late Sir Hector McDonald, m the person of Mr R. McTavish, died m the Pahiatua Hospital last 7 Sunday from cancer. McTavish was a famous piper, as most of the McTavishes are. ; * a * Miss Leonore White, the Calif omian Venus has arrived m Melbourne from Noumea, where she paralysed the Frenohies with her beautiful figure. She will possibly be over this way shortly under engagement to the Fullers. * * * • Influenza has been very busy amongst "Truth's" staff this week. The editor, sub-editor, chief reporter, a mono, ioperator and the stone hand were all down simultaneously. The manager of the Christchurch branch and. our Christchurch correspondent have also been laic up this week. A good subject here surely for some wowser to sermonise on to-morrow # ** * • How some traits run m families. A (brother of the notorious Jonathan Roberts, of Lyttelton gaol-breaking " fame, was before the beak on a j charge of being a useless excrescence j on the landscape. He refused to enter the Samaritan Home for a given period, so for three months goes to the gaol his brother beat sq badly long years ago., * * * Millionaire Henry Thaw, who murdered millionaire White some months (or is it years?) ago will come up for re-trial m January next. Wouldn't it save the United States Government a lot of money and trouble if they directed the Court to find Shaw guilty and pondemn him to death by old age ? It would come to the same thing and save worry -j * * * 'Justice Button is very weak? on the subject ofthe ladies. "I waited to take my wife's advice before deciding on purchasng the lease," said a witness m the Wanganui Court. "A very wise proceeding," remarked his Honor. "A lady's advice is often very commendable and to the point." His Honor gets quite overcome when the ladies are under discussion. *.* * . : ■ ' ■ ' •■-.-• The prohibition of imported glass ornaments to resemble greenstone had a narrow squeak of passing m the Reps. The clause was moved by Guinness of the Grey, but was opposed by Ministers, who joined the rubbish importers, and the division ended m a dead heat of 32 each. Motueka. McKenzie, who- was m the chair, gave his vote against the foreign glass, and the clause passed. The House divided again on the motion, to bring the • new law into operation on January Ist, but, m the meantime, a traitorous member was won over to the cause of shoddy, and the clause as a whole was lost by 31 to 32. * * * Says a Melbourne exchange :'— "'Melba is coming -back to Australia to see the old people, and already a palace, a sqiuattah's residence, has been rented for Mdme. Nellie, who is carting home with her her son and the "kiddy's" wife. The. warbling woman wanderer, it is said, does not come home "professionally," only for a holiday, but even though Melba has a pound or two m her little tin mon-ey-box, she's not the woman to shut her glims when she sees a quid sticking out, so that at about Cup time she is likely to be heard m public. Musgrove, who brought Melba out before, will also be here at the time mentioned. Also, the Cup will be here— and, well, Musgrove will be on hand with an offer that Melba is likely to cop." a■ * * An English paper recently, related some of the big fees earned by doctors. Dr., Doyen, of Paris, was paid £4.000 for his unsuccessful treatment of Mrs Crocker., of California. Sir Astley Cooper a .century ago received £5,000 for a trip to Vienna to attend Prince Esterhazy, and for a journey to St. Petersburg to vaccinate Empress Catherine 11. Dr. Dimsdale got £10,000 and an annuity of £500. An English army surgeon received £10,000 for doctoring an Indian potentate during an attack of rheumatism, the Czar of Russia once paid Professor Zacharine. of Moscow, £15,000 for two days' attendance, and Dr. James Gale got £50.000 for a few weeks' treatment of a millionaire's leg. These fees largely exceed anything* paid for medical services to Australasian doctors. The highest fee paid to an Australian medico is said to be £5,000, which was paid to Knight Fitzgerald by Knight McCautfhey. the Riverina wool king. But both m England and the colonies leading lawyers earn far greater incomes than the disciples of Aesculapius^

Mr J, R. Gibbons, leader of tlie "Evening Post" staff, completed his twenty-fifth year of service with the. Blundells on Tuesday last. What's' wrong with a year's holiday on full Pay after that ? * • * "I am very sorry to hear so manw unpatriotic speeches m this House. 3B am a New Zealander."— Symes, of Patea, condemning the importation of Brummagem greenstone for Syrianhawkers to impose on the unsuspect-. ing public. * . * * Seven famous English authors, late-> ly deceased, including Edwin Arnold' George Gissing; and William Sharp } left estates which, added together^ amounted to about £13,000. -Their? abilities, if devoted to trade, \irouldi probably have realised as many millions. / * a a The fact of D a vid Thoma.% of Ashburton, retiring from business is be-i; ing paragraphed m all the newspap- ; ers m the country. "Truth" knows quite a numbei of people who retire from; business, but the papers • never seem to get m a fever about it. Was Mr Thomas a big advertiser, or what ? • * * * Upper House G. J. Smith is a prohibitionist and ail that sort of! thing, but catch him, as you frequently will, on the boat between Wel-* lington and" Ghristohureh, with ai soft hat turned down all round and a big cigar between his teeth, andi he looks more like a sporting squatter than an M.L.C. * * * , Mr George Musgrove says he i 9 go-. ing to bring a grand opera companyj to New Zealand every two years. Haf reckons he is only losing £109 a] week ,on the present company.; George likes to do things \iig. X hel isn't making tnousands nfe lilJes. to i& losing 'em. Ten per cent, either wayj is no blooming good to George.. * * * Admiral A'. A. Fitz-George, the eldest son of the la.te Duke of Cam-.' bridge, is dead, so the cables in-: form us. Fitz-George was about as? great a military man as his father,? who, because he was cousin to Queens Victoria, was given charge of England's military forces. He was only? remarkable as -being the laughingstock of the soldiers,., ** ' * Mr Jesse Phillips, a young lawyer of New York, is the author of a new divorce law, which has been| eulogised from the' pulpit, and which! is expected to considerably reduce the number of applications . for divorce. The: new law enacts that married persons convicted of infidelity! shall be subject to six months' imp'-.V prisonment or a fine of £50 or both.; '.. * * ■.* Mr Edwin Geach", m advance of tha Willbugiiby-Wafd and Grace Palotta company arrived, m "Wellington by- the Waikare on Wednesday night. Tlifc genial Edwin looks as fit as evert and says he has some good thing* coming forward for New' Zealand. Within the, next twelve "months ho promises Frank Thornton and comtanyj, a new Amer can company to stage "Mrs WBggs" Cabbage Patch," Carter, the conjurer, and a return oi the "Human Hearts" company ., - *" * * The Masters m Lunacy have found Mrs Eddy, the founder of the Chris- • tian Science sect, to be sane ; and have put her property, valued at £200,000, m the hands of trustees. A womian who can wheedle £200,000 out of her religious dupes can't be too far gone m the upper region. But what about her followers ? Will they still believe m their leader, who has such great- faith m things spiritual that she' must needs hoard jip close upon a quarter of a million sterling of filthy lucre ? When will the public get wise to religious hypocrites ? John McMaster, one of Brisbane's earliest settlers and oldest member of the Legislative Assembly,, is a quaint old cuss, who made his money by; running 'busses and who endeavors t a keep his youth ever green by dyeinfl his whiskers. Although a. Scotchman he would make a good double" for the late Oom Paul Kruger. A Bri*. bane paper refers to him thusly :— "Old Jock Muckmaster is the oldest member of the Legislative Assembly. He is said tp be more than 80 years old— how much more no one seems to know. His Kirugef "whiskers shows his Conservative tendencies. No man with such whiskers ever yet was a Democrat. Strange to say, m spite of his years, and m spite of his white head. Jock's whiskers are jet black. This shows that the old 'bus horse politician hasn't yet quite escaped from the vanities of youth and flesh, A man who goes to the trouble of dyeing his whiskers at 80 evidently intends to live a good while longer m this sinful world, if lie can possibly riianage to avoid being snuffed auV-'-