PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 125, 9 November 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

C. M. : Isitt, temperance crank, is going to contest the Christchurch East seat at the next election. He will contest it, and that's all 5 the electors will do the rest* * * w Alleged that a bosun on the s.s. Penguin drew Apologue m Tatt's Sweep on the Melbourne Cup. Bosun Bill's banking account goes up £12,---000 odd as a result. Now he'll probfibly come to light, as a ship-owner. * * * R. L. Mullarky, who was here \ managing the tour of the "Human j Hearts" Company, was at one time, private secretary to J. C. Williamson. He was married a few weeks ago to Violet Sylvester, of the Royal Comics... * ' ♦ .* Tom Sharkey is far and away the richest pugulist m America. He is up to his chin m the hotel business, and one of his "joints" is a real bonanza. Tom stuck to the money he made m the ring, instead of splashing it up, as most champions do. » # • Albert Goldie, who was here m advance of the Mother Goose panto, left New Zealand last week for Sydney, where he joins the J.C.W. staff, and will be on deck at the Sydney Theatre Royal, where "Brewster's Millions" and "John Glady 7 s Honor" are to be produced. Goldie hopes to be back m N.*Z.. iwith us at the end of the year. * • • When evergreen but elderly operatic star, Howard Vernon; married youthful Vinia de Loitte the public spoke wonderingly about the union between autumn and spring, but good old Howard looks as youthful as ever, and his aristocratic slenderness has given place to a convincing fullness of figure. It was probably Vernon's keen sense of humor which led him to cast himself m the elderly part, of Rip van Winkle, and thus accentuate the disparity m years between himself and his missus. This mature gallant has a remarkable attraction for the girls. I ' • . m """ * I An old ' and very popular member of the police force passed away at K-hyber Pass recently, m the per- ! son of Sergeant Richard Gamble. The late Sergeant was a iwell-known figure m Auckland during the earlier i days, having spent the greater part [of his service between the city, PapI akura, and Otahuhu. For about 15 years he was inspector of weights and measures for the city, and later, after returning from Otahuhu, he was put m charge of the city station, from which he retired about eleven years ago to reside upon a farm he had acquired near Huntly. * at ■ Eastern Maori member Ngata has had a university education, but his thoughts are still with his ancestors, and en Wednesday he informed an irresponsive House that the Government should recognise the exclusive right of the Maori, conferred by the Treaty of Waitangi to certain fishing grounds, the land-marks of which had . been, handed down from father to son for many generations. The progenitors of Ngata, who is more at home translating .a Greek ode than m dissecting a schnapper, had the sole right to catch shark within certain points of the Bay of Plenty or thereabouts. Ell, M.H.R., who has the misfortune to have "H." for an initial, is the sturdiest democrat m .the House. He believes the Government should not only be permitted to own a fishing fleet, but to establish wholesale and retail fish and oyster shops, if the people m the business persisted m putting up the price of the Lenten diet. Fish, according to H'KH, is rapidly becoming a luxury purchasable only by the rich, and if they gave cheap money to farmers and local bodies and looked with joy on the proposal to carry road metal free on the railways, they should also cheapen the food of the unfortunate worker. Various bloated agriculturists and borough councillors interjected hostile remarks, but Ell gave 'em 'ell. * « • , Pomare, the full-blooded Maori doctor, has a pretty tough job m battling against the reverence for Tohungaism amongst his brown brothers. The infant which was supposed to have been killed by immersion m water near Foxton, actually died from natural causes, and a tobung<a escaped a charge of manslaughter : but there can be no doubt of the baneful influence of these historical impostors. While the youngster was dying the Maori sorcerer delivered himself of an incantation m Maori and broken English, something like; ( *Pokoliua taipo, pokohua atua Maori. Kia kaha, kia kaha. Go ahead my boy. Take away te dead one. Wire m, my boy; hule him, my Iboy !" There are three tohungas around Foxton giving allegiance to different • spooks, and the aboriginals have manga, taipo for breakfast, dinner and tea.

Comedian Fred Graham has bought a property ' m Sydney, with a view. to settling down. * * * W. H. Judkins, Melbourne's J_. r J 4 North, who wanted to go into Parliament, was badly left out m the cold, and then -save up all idea oE pursuing a pub-lie career, is ~oing ta tour N.Z., and a cadge has been started m Melbourne to give the wowser the necessary for the tour. * . * ■ '■■ Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous society "denunciator," is to have the unique honor of inclusion as a character m two plays shortly to be produced . Hall Gaone has adopted the strenuous cleric for the revised version of "The Christian," and he will also figure m a Drury, Lane melodrama. * * '••■•. 'Jack London, one of the most vU rile and 1 virulent of modern no>vel-< ists, is on ,his way to Australia, andi has arrived at Honolulu m a yacht.. If London writes the truth about Australia as he has about New York,, and also about the city whence he takes his name, he will have some-! thing interesting ' to say, * . • * Arthur Cowie, son of late Bishop Cowie, has been made seaman's missioner at Auckland, and has been m Wellington lately, and, according to a local paper, studying the methods of the local -mission. The methods of the local missioner as good. The methods of Missioner Moore are worth studying— they pay damn well. * * • • "Ranji," as India's latest Jam is still familiarly called m cricket circles, is to be married m November. A. C. MacLaren and A. A. Lilley^ both of whom visited Australia with "Ranji," have been specially invited by the Indian potentate to attend the wedding. Other leading amateurs are also going to steam to the shivoo, and Vine and Cox, the Sussex pros., are going out to coach Ranji's native servants how to play cricket correctly. * * * When the Sea Fisheries Bill was under discussion m the Reps, Aucklander Poole ridiculed the provision for the establishment of Government managed wholesale and retail oyster and fish depots. In choice American, Pqole conjured up the spectacle of Minister Millar with an apron on, and armed with oyster knife, serving out bivalves to the public m the different centres of population. The earnest speaker considered the State shouldn't po into the oyster biz. just vet awhile. Mr Dick Stewart, on behalf of the Mother Goose Company, now m Christchurch, has arranged for a huge picnic to Blyth's Gardens at New Brighton to-morrow. A sports programme has been drawn up, and the various events should be worth walking 20 miles to see. They include an objstacle race, egg and spoon race, and musical race. -In the latter the man with the b.ig- bass, like the fellow that played before the King of Siam, will be badly handn capped. ..* • . * Good old Maurice O'Rorke, exSpeaker of the House of Reps., has a strange kink m his political nature, which moves him perennially to agitate m the Legislative Council for the restoration of provincial government m New Zealand, with all of the attendant provincial jealousies, and small provincial grievances, and greatly enhanced expenses of administration. The Assembly listens respectfully and rejects the proposal with firmness, len owing that Maurice on other subjects is politically, sane. s * * " Hone Heke was talking m the House on Wednesday about the rights reserved to the Maori by the Treaty of Waitawffi. Tom Wilford : ''The Treaty of Waitangi is a fetich." Hone : "The whole constitution of this colony is ,based upon the Treaty of Waitangi." Wilford : "It has been broken." Hone : "By whom ?" Wilford : "By both sides." Hone : "I reneat that the constitution of this colony is based upon the Treaty." Then the northern Maori rep. delivered an address that was extrenv-Iv moderate, when it is realised thu.fc the country of his peonle was stolen by the slippery pakeha. Just to show the popular sort of cuss Dick Stewart is, the Mother Goose Company, now nearing it* New Zealand season m Christchurch, presented him, the other (lay, With a silver salver with the names of the company engraved on it. Comodian Harry Phydora made the presentation, and a lot of healths were drunk and everybody were sood fellows and fellowesses. The juvenile members of the Co. also took a hand, and presented the. genial Dicky with a silver shaving service, the presentation being made b- Miss Irene Jones. Dick suitably responded to all the good things said of him, and m future is going to try :hard to b« as good as he is naint~ :