PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 124, 2 November 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Harry Peaice": Letters at, this, office for -111. • .* • • * * Tarn Duncan, the North ol Ireland Scotchman, is voting with the Oppo- j sition on the Endowment Bill. It is; probable that Tarn never wholly for- 1 gave Ward for depriving him of the Lands portfolio. *• - • A "flu" victim has been Colonel Collins, who, "Truth" is pleased to say, is now up and doing again. The "flu" fiend got the Colonel down and worried him, which was something never before accomplished by. any enemy. ' # * * Joe Ivess, perpetrator of many a mushroom newspaper, is loose a^-ain. He has sold the "Taihape News 3 ' to the opposition "Post" Co. for £2250. Joe says he will not start any more , newspapers, which •is something for which he should receive a hearty vote of thanks. '• .* * * People are so absorbed watching the weight of their daily bread that .-they' overlook the butter. Member j Hogg says he has received letters j from various people complaining that 1 the cow-grease sent out of the factories is often an ounce to two ounces short of the pound. * • .'*■-.' Tanner, of Invercargill, whose gigantic brain has succeeded m pushing the hair out over a large expanse of his skull, says that the ridiculously low fine inflicted on a Wellington man for poisoning the milk .of the city with formalin is a scandal and a disgrace to ' the administration of Justice m any civilised country. * * • Miss May Blundell, daughter of Louis Blundell, was married to Mr Noel W. Nelson, son of Canon Nelson, at Kobe, Japan, .recently. Anyhow, that's a reversal of the usual j rule. Husbands consider wives quite a nuisance m Japan. Late Jack Want, ICC, 'of Sydney, used to roar that taking a wife to Japan was like taking a sandwich to a banquet. * * % A 1 ghastly rumor pervaded Masterton recently that Moana Paratene, had been killed m a bout at Hastings, champion wrestler of the Wairarapa, Just as the population was about to depart to the tangi, Moana turned up and explained that it was the other fellow who felt sick. It appears that the Maori exerted himself with such fierceness that his opponent fell m a : dead faint, and as rumors go by opposites, that is how Molina passed Jn his marble m the imaginary iway described. 1 • • * We find ourselves with strange bedmates. Big estate champion Mandei was talking m the House of Reps, t'other day and quoted the late Premier Seddon's opinion of a political' opponent, who was "morally" incapacitated by personal unfitness." Mande'i applied his characterisation to George Laurenson, and ■ George replied with, spirit that he took the imputation as a compliment fr-om a person of Man-da i's calibre. Then Mandei reminded Laurenson that he had slept m the same bed with him when the member for Lyttelton visited Marsden. Mande.v said something else, but it was drowned m the uproar.; * ■ * •• Present visitors to Christchurch include Peter Dawson, of the welllanown firm of Scottish whisky distillers, who, with- his wife, recently arrived m the Dominion from Auslia. He saw much of the Commonwealth, having spent several months there, and m the course of conversation with a newspaper representative, said the two things that had struck him were the great prosperity of both Australia and New Zealand, and the extraordinary number of old men still actively engaged m business. Extraordinary, isn't it. The whisky man is probably used to long rows of graves, where only old men are found. Australia and New Zealand haven't evolved Carnegies and such blood-sucking monsters so far. * • • "Miranui," the A\ and L. Seifert Company's fine new flaxmill, is to be opened at Makerua on November 16. The north and south express trains, besides other trains, are .. to stop j there, and amongst the visitors vari- j ous members of Parliament are expected. It doesn't seem very long ago since George, Lou, and Alf Sei- j fert arrived from Southland, md put their joint earnings as mill-hands into a mill at Orona bridge, or there- I abouts. Hard graft, business instinct j and good prices did the rest, and^soon all three brothers had mills. This last venture is something gorgeous m the way of flaxmilling, and the crowning triumph of the Seifert family George by the way, left most of j.one hnnd. m the sfciippcr at Oroaa I bridge seven years ago<

1 . Mary-iMn Aitken believes you can't legislate to obtain a loaf w.eighin# 4ft s. To secure liis nefarious end; : according to Mary, the taker will un-der-bake the bread .to retafh. i^s heaviness. The stout Wellington . rep. m Parliament wants slices cut off go.* other loaf to make up the shortage. i ' • * * :• Mr John Norton has' been approached m Sydney with a view of ofteririft himself for election for the constitu-. ency about' to 'be vacated W cXLabor Leader J. C.Watson. The Federal constituency embraces Darling Harbor, represented m the State Parliament by Mr Norton. ' * • _■ ■■"■■".;;■■■' Of late the daily -»ress have been ! chronicling: the fact that Jack McLachlan. the awful example of Ashburton prohibition, is seriously ill. Jock, however, announced as a> -sor,t; of antidote that he wasn't seriously ill, and that the daily press .■ is., .m effect, a ' liar. Anyhow. what's wrong with him.. * * ■ ', * "Convarted" crook cyclist Brooks reckons professional cycling is too I muddy a stream for a Christian to wade m. Wonderful, indeed, is ; the influence of the Y.BLC.A. Hoy about nigger Majah Taylor f-., who; was . held up as a shiijiag example of Methodism. These cyclists, converted or otherwise, ought to be con? sistent. ■' * * . .« ' ' While playing bowls last Ttiesday, Police Commissioner Dinnie broke his leg. "Truth," though it has no time for Dinnie as a policeman, sym* pathises with him, and hereby expresses the hope that he will '-soon be up and- doing. Bowls must be' a ferocious kind of game, and if such accidents persist m happening, there will foe a great outcry raised against It. Bowlers ought for safety's sake, take to football or some less exhilarating pastime. * . The Rev. R. F. Williams." minister of the Musselburgh Methodist Church, has ratted on the mouthers, and Oh Sunday night last he said that "an important crisis had arrived m his life, that he could not conscientiously act as their minister any longer;'/' Anyhow, what' is the pietist going to tackle now. If religion of the Methodist type is not "paying, perhans he'll embark as a publican. What, anyhow, is at the bottom of it. ■ Business, of course, and biz means "S.s.d. * * '.' * 'A' "Personal Par'? that "Truth" inadvertently omitted the other tiay was the departure from the Dominion for Australia of Mrs and Mistetf Green, late of the "Ori.," Christchurch. Gone to Sydney, it is said, no doub<t on the look-out for another licensed bawdy-house. Before leaving Christchurch Mrs and Mister Green thanked "Truth's" representative for the kind turn he did them by putting the police on to their rortyj. rum, beet and cham. shanty. * * ■ -._• •• Wilmot Quinnell, a Wellington vet. » seems to be a very decent sort. An obvious Greek named. Demetri Meanoleey, who used to be a fishmonger and discarded it for poultryraising on account of rheumatics, was charged with cruelty to his horse, which was suffering from ringbone, and the ' case was dismissed mainly upon the evidence of the vet., who refused to take any fee, as his [sympathies were with the Society; for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which he had helped to beat. * * * Pure-fooy R. H. W. Bligli is talking to boys over 14 once more „« m New: j Zealand, and one country paper mentions that the purist handled his subject delicately. Perhaps he does. His purity lectures to boys always attract a large audience j of baldheads, who ought to be past talking to, and surely advice to .them now is superfluous. Why, anyhow, does Bligh announce wherever he wanders that he has the full endorsement, of the Minister of Education ? That must give him a big pull, if nothing else. • . . * * * • Public Purist Poole speaks very forcibly m the House of . Reps, about the poisonous narcotics that are put m cigarettes to benumb the faculties of the smoker. In some parts of Amurka any person under twenty-one years of age caught smoking a oigarette is liable to a fine of two hundred guineas, and no individual whose fingers bear the stain of cigarette smoke is considered competent "to give evidence m such cases. These remarks of Poolc's aroused Waikouaitf McKenzie, who is a cigarette smoke?, and the elephantine humorist of tlio House. To disqualify from giving evidence, a nictn marked with eigwrette stains, said Mac, is as sensible as to say that an individual who shaved dean is no judge of cutlery* Poole uses a razor on his counter since-: