PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 130, 14 December 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

A\ 0. Jones, skipper o£ the English. Cricket team, was a fine "Rugger" player before his marriage, and is now reckoned the best Bugjby referee m the Old Dart. '-■ ■'■'■■ -<■ - . * ♦ • The hero of the Parliament House fire was Charley 'Matthews, private secretary to the Minister of Justice. Another whose services are not to foe discounted is Mr T. E. Donne, of the Tourist Department. tf • ■ '■ There is a parson, floating about somewhere m the Dominion whose name is Dtrinkwater. It is to be hoped for the sake of -" the • cloth that he lives up to his name. Anyhow, what an ad. he fia^fbr the' Prohibition cause ? * * • Hone Heke, M.P., was one of the most prominent and voluble persons on the scene of Parliament Buildings fire. Hone was dressed up like a sore thumb, as usual, m immaculate costume, which led many to suspect that ho hadn't been to bed. In-fact a number of persons appeared fully dressed and m great haste. Heke deplored the loss of valuable papers, and a gaping crowd stood around m mute sympathy. Mr W. T. Churchward, ,. who was with Messrs Young and Tripe m this C'ty for many years, has started I business m Blenheim.' Churchward I as always a popular kind of man, has plenty of brains, and 'good legal training, and "Truth" tips him to aye a very decent practice before long m the place where the rabbits I ome from. This is, a "tip," but not a "tip" within the meaning of the Can't Make a Bet Act. Judge Button is capable of a joke* Evidence was being given m a divorce suit when his elderly Honor advised the witness to go slow to suit the shorthand typist. The irrepressable Wi If or d .remarked -that Le Grove, the artist mentioned, 1 had recently been engaged on Hansard m Parliamentary Buildings and Was . a scorcher for speed. S'Honor observed that the circumstance might have accounted for the conflagration. Whereupon Hutt's Thomas asked, "What about the Member's inflammatory speeches, yr' 'Onor ?" A genial old gentleman m theper83ji of Edward Haw-ksworth Hudson, I one of Canterbury's pioneers, passed over t'other day at the age of 85. I In. '64 he took up a lot of swampy flmd at Greenpark, and transformed it into a beautiful farm m the coucse of a few years. It took a bit of doing, but grit and pluck overcame all obstacles. In '85 Mr Hudson retired from the management of the place, and spent the remainder of his days m devoting himself to intellectual pursuits. He had a splendid library and took a great interest m astron©iny. In. early life.it was intended it'nat". deceased should- adont the medical ' profession, but. ' illness^ of a serious. nature, led him to abandon it. Mr 'could wield a facile -pen, , and . before coming to Maoriland he , contributed • articles to a number of English papers. ■ ■ ■ . ■■" ■ - . . ■■: •■ •• *••..: There is a queerly-constituted. clerial cove m Christchuroh who is a i constant theme -for remark,- not -only I on account of his proiessional • eccen- j ffcricities, but also owing- to his overweening anxiety to reach nowhere' in particular m the . shortest "possible time on his motor bike. 'One of the sights of the city is to see this divine careering round on his Puffing Billy, coat tails flyine; m the air, children hopping out of the road,' 'and dogs barking, the general impression being is that he is after the devil and means to arrest him by the tail and warn him to walk isome other beat. The pace at which 'this light-headed .parson travels ! makes foot passengers and others assume an air of sodden and astonish■od l>cwilderraent, which would look ! well m a photograph. The police 'should treat this road hog as they /treat others who aren't nearly so .dangerous. * # ■ Even up to the last five years "of his life Henry Irving was striving, striving. So writes Ellen Terry. Ho never rested on, old triumphs, never f oiHid a»part m 'which there was no more to do. When I was touring with him m America at the time when he was at the highest point of his fame, I watched him . one day m the train, always a delightful occupation, as his J face provided many .different pictures j | a minute, and being struck by acuri-i jous. expression, half triumphant, half J '(.despairing, I asked him what he was j thinking about. "I was thinking," he! answered slowly, "how- strange it is •■ that I should have made t-h^ reputa-* ,- tion-1 have as an actor with nothing j Ito help me— with no equipment. My i I legs/ my voice — everything has been against me. For an actor who can't walk, can't talk, and has no face to 'speak of, I've done pretty well !" | And, I, looking at that splendid | head, tßbsc wonderful hands, which he was holding out m a -despairing gesture towards me, thought,. "Ah, you little know !■'*

George Stuekey, the . well-known Melbourne cricketer, had a present* ution made him on Monday, typical of the cricket wicket ; his wife presented him with triplets, all boys. Continuing at this rate a Stuckey XI >n^y yet be seen m the field. • *• ' • Matenga, the bushranger, is m for a bad time now. Detective "Boer" Broberg, and Constable Skinhsr, the wrestler,-; have left Wellington to seek the outlaw, who has lately been m evidence around Poverty Bay. Anyhow, the 'tec. and the wrestler are wished luck, but wihy isn't Ohiei 'Tec. Mcllveney m the chase ? Surely, he wants a holiday how, after his arduous labors this year. John Owens, of Napier, has readt his obituary notice m a Gisborne paper, and has protested vary loudly* i that he is alive and kicking. Seems that a body was found- m G-isborne, and on it was fount] the address '•John Owens, Enfleld Road, Napier," and the conclusion was at once arrived at that Owens was the name of the stiff-'un. Owens says he isn't dead, and surely he ought* to know. * =» t « "What a lot of heroes have been 'inearthed m connection with the Parliament House flare-tip. Why ai« ;they all posing under the, limelight;ls this paper puffing m keeping with j the policy of smoodge ? Every noneni tity who picked up "a burning book or ; snatched a literary brand from;, the I flames has had his deed duly chronic led. The men who did anything keep quiet about it. i • * • W. H. Judkins, the J. J. North cf Melbourne, who tried to get into Parf liam-ent and was violently assaulted un the rear by the electors and got sick and tired of everything and everybody, is visiting New Zealand just now, having reached Auckland after a Porief sojourn m Tonga. . Is Juddy spying out the land m t-ba Dominion and is he going to oust J. J. North as chief disturber of the peace ? Juddy is not a welcome visitor to this country, though the wowsers, no doubt, will make much of him, if they find he isn't going t« stop and poach on their preserves. Charles Dunkley Wallace, the petitlonei' m the society divorce case', now being tried m Melbourne,, is a grandson of the wealthy Too Moaa,* {vha/n, who arrived m Sydney m 183a, married a Sydney girl,... a Mtas Timons, . and left for ...Melbourne ia 18.41. , In that town ha .opened tk» Port Phillip Club in-Lonsdale-stree*, ancl. remained m it until it closed and tnost of the members went to Ui» Club, a -house of • their <. .vn on the south side of Collinssweety between Elizabeth and §wa.n-ston-streets. Hie then-kept -a' lively stables for some years.;- and- built th<a Queen's Arms m Sw-anston-street iri 1845. From that out*"' he : kept on building until he died," almost a millionaire. His wife was' his book-keeper^ * • •• • • -, ■■ Perhaps late m, the" field,-. though nevertheless m deadly, earnestness,-: "Truth" wishes to offer its congratulations to Mr W. A. i Hawking Depu'ty T Registrar of Welling.ton.'s Supreme Co.urt and Clerk of Awards for the {.Arbitration Court m. .the. .Wellington distr ct, for his Well-earned promotion. . Mr Hawkins is .to be made Re-* gistrar'of the Supreme. Court In some? other" part of New Zealand. Christchurch was stated as being his laea-' tion, but this is not the- case. Mfi Hawkins is a genial, -painstaking " official, person-a>ll<y and- --deservedly pooular with everybody -who have, business with him. He is an •• officer o£ sterling worth, and m- his new sphere of duties, ■wherever it may be, "Truth" wishes him every success:, ami whatever 'district Mr Hawkins i 9 transferred to can consider' "itself extremely lucky m getting such a cap-* able man. ■■■■ • • . Everybody wants a motor, and ifl is only thu wealthy who can afford ore The millionaire, .of course, has his motor and his chafieuiy specially? imported. It was m accordance with the eternal fitness of . things that one of the wealthiest nven about Wellington should have a motor, and on« was purchased on a recent trip 'Ohio. As the motor was not complete without a "chaff-,-" and a French j', too, one was picked up iri Paris and imported regardless of exJ pense. As Dick Whittington expectled London's streets to be paved with gold, so did Froggy fondly iniasin« J that he was coming to a land over- ! flowing with milk and honey, but I whi^h he now finds is nothing but biJfc !■ and bunny. Anyhow, the" chaffeutf ! was chily brought along. Gay as his \ life m Parc-e had been,.\he hoped tc> I ocHpse himself out here.. But—^h, bat j here's . the rub. When .he lander! a.t the homestead the ohafly . gjiap wafi asked to feed the pigs, . ar.d this of a^ chaffc-ur all the way from Farce* Now he reckons his employer is a "camle," he n«ght have moant canine; bu t he didn ' t . He tri ed to • say his employer is a cannibal.- This is truly a- democratic cv/mrnitiiity.-