PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, 4 January 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Socialist; -Fjfzgeiald calls him the Rev. J J. ; South. - : •■ • • — W. A. Lloyd, anti-Chowite and lots of other things, who didn't reap any great benefits from his sacrifice, • he chucked up a job m the We&ington Tourist Depot, is presently agitating m N.S. Wales against Prohibition and other things. The LloyU person ■bobs up m most unheard of and least thought of places. He's like a sausage, m one sespect, he's a mystery. Charlie Wilson, ex-newspaper edK tor and Wangsfrui College master, and presently Government librarian,, hides a sympathetic 'heart . under a pair .of ipince-nez and a/ dignified manner, with occasional outbursts of haughtiness. Charles appeared with George Winder and Andy Collins on the Jay Pay Bench ..on Monday, ,when quite a crowd of drunks and minor law-breakers were spoken to with great severity and let off with a caution. , *■ • • *J. W. Forbes, one' time of Cairns, and latel* manager of the Ohilders branch of the Bank of North Queensland, was the Laird of Culloden. While recently, deceased Aloysitfs. Macdonald, manager- of the Wellington branch of the Bank of New. South- Wales, was a great grandson of Alexander VI., chief- of the Keppoch Macdonalds, who was killed on ill-fated Culloden Moor when leading into battle all the, Macdonalds who had espoused Prince Charle's\_cause. The death of the first nameuf was reported from Childers, on 'Decemiber 17. Each left a wido,Wi and five of a -family. ~ When it was known, that Lieu ten-;, ant Herd, of . Wellington, had bcen;i appointed judge ol the next Bandil Contest at New Plymouth,.^the.Kai- | korai Band unanimously decided not ,to participate. Apart frpm the fact [thai musical people are always jquar-. ' xelliiigv" "Hferd.'s T^aine^ ; ts <! 4nud; : '^wi%h many of the New Zealand bands. Most people 'believed that Wanganui had won the contest awarded to Herd's^ Wellington. Ban4>at Masterton three years ago#'v^ the fact that Herd had surj^ interviews with the ipr judge before he gave iri&r ; yion was spoken of with imdign^ ; %£? A man who has acquired loca) >judice shouldn't be allowed to/ m • a dog fight; let alone ' .nd contest.. . ■ . .. «',. -/ « . •■ Jack Barr, well-known iii Wellington press circles, spent a short Christmas vacation m this city. Jack is now on the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" and came across like a prodigal son, and didn't even! say he was coming. John B. has no time for Wellington now and adores Sydney. Jack might still -have been m Wellington if the "Post" people had any gumption. They simply let a good man go out of the fold, and. his abilities were promptly recognised when he settled m Sydney. John B. has been doing. New South Wales Parliament lately, and reckons John Norton, the best speaker m the Agsembly.. We blush, of course to print this, but Jack Barr has said it, and he ought to know. Madame Blanche Carelli now immensely., pleasing audiences at Fullers' isf'bound to make' name and fame m thi;. musical world. In private life, a Firs 'Casimir, Madame is the possessor of a voice which ought to make her fortune. Mr Henry Bracy, as good a judge of voices as there, is m the Southern Hemisphere, has foretold great success for the lady, who, by the way, is an Aucklan'ler. She comes from a musical fomily, and was for a long time leading lady ,m orchestral concerts m. tJie Northern city, besides beins vlosely identified with Roman Catholic choirs. It might be mentioned that the lady is a niece of Mr Paul Coffcy, cf Oriental Bay. "Truth" wishes her good luck and trusts to hear cf heu success m other parts of sheworM. .'* ■ * The "Thames Advertiser" of December 24 thus refers to a wellknown Dunedin man : — "Chief Detective P. Herbert,' of Dunedin, who is (.well and favorably known at Thames fand on the goldfields, is at present on a short holiday visit to this district. He is accompanied by Mrs Herbert. While at Thames Detective ! Herbert attracted attention and put I the seal on his fame by his clever [arrest of Sheehan, thp Castletown— Roache murderer, who escaped the clutches of the law and made his •way from Ireland to the Thames goldfields. Detective Herbert located his quarry . on the Peninsula, and, securing employment, worked with him until the extradition warrant arrived, when the murderer was arrested. Sheehan was taken back to Ireland, and' convicted of murder, and on the scaffold paid the penalty for . his deed. From 'that time onward Mr Herbert's detective abilities claimed attention, and his progress has^een as rapid as it has been deserved. Another conspicuous act was the arrest of the notorious burglar Dunn, who at one session of the Supreme Court was sentenced on ! various charges to 117 years' imI prisonment.; " *

There was a gassy interval at the Asbburton Gasworks t'other day. when retiring- manager Oausey was presented with a case of pipes. He has been 13 years with the show, and that unlucky number hasn't been ans unlucky one for him because he is able* to enter business on his own account.* Manager C.^S.'Bastian, of the Oam-» aru illuminating works, is his sue-* . cessor. •• * m Good old Signor Borzoni, who ; taught so many maiden tootsies to twinkle on the boards, has reached'! • Hokitika; and is overwhelmed with," the noted hospitality' of the West : Coast. "I am sorry to leave you," • he told them with tears m his eyes>; "but, like^hti soldier and the maiden, lam ne^tox long enough m one [place to ma 'm enemies." Truly, the i Signor has 1 -Jay friends. I •• xl ■• .; • f A : well-know^-Wellington publican journeyed, to the other ■day for the s racivg carnival. .At the end of. the second \day he'd done a. fair parcel . with the books, and the Swankey Stakes had- cost another; poultice, but the way he was nipped by his friends was just too crueL Speaking, to a friend afterwards ofi his experiences he said, "It seems . to me that -you want to take 50 quid with you for punting and 50f i quid for expenses and a hundred aiwl „*** fifty bloomin' quid to lend to youc friends." And he's not far out. Mr Harry Pearce, the well-known wrestler, < returned to Wellington from; a tour of the North Island on Satju'rday last. He has a particularly! good team of athletes with him ati l|he present time, and can give an / show- It was his intehtiont i'\travel to. Lyttelton to be present , jr **> A Vt)he regattav. where he has'^EoWnT • \ ting the two. previous regattas,, ft c ,want .ot suitable. ground space V~-.-iratifcW an -alteration of - plans, -aha he goes to Taihape instead for New;. -™* Years Day. King Countryites who> have been wrestling with bad beer, and bumptious _ .bosses during the back season should find being bounced on the carpet by Harry a gentla recreation. * ■ • • • Captain Carey is skipper of the s.s. Waihi, and not commander ofi the record-breaking Lusitania, as some people might believe. T'other day, on a trip from Blenheim, a fireman was spoken to by a pasenger, whereupon Carey observed, "I don't allow passenegrs to talk i „, to my men." He might be right, of j|g\ : course, firemen, if spoken to, might _Jflß| cease firing or something, and re-^*, ll cords wouldn't be broken. Anhow, \ the WailiHs a dirty old tujb, and Carey! ; v is no class and doesn't deserve to iba called captain. He puts on too much dog and frill, and gives orders ' m a harsh voice, and isn't popular with anybody, and nbbody will yen- • ture to speak to firemen m future : for fear of being plhced^in iroiis. : * •* . . • They evidently possess the chanw ; pion "best man"up Masterton way.; At the wedding the other day of Me ' T. Flaws, of Wellington, to a Mas- ; terton young lady,^ the officiating ' clergyman, Rev. A. M. Johnson,^' Church of England, m proposing the )\ health of the ■ bride, and bridegroom,,' remarked that it was about the tenth occasion on which Mr Ben. Iveson had acted m the capacity ofl best man at weddings at which he had officiated, m the. Wairarapa. The Same Iveson,; who, by thp way, is a member at tlic Fourth Estate, has acted as besEcinan at weddings celebrated at churches other than the* Church of England m the Wairarapa 1 besides being groomsman and acting, m the capacity of "father", m giving' a bride away. * * . • "Hie Nimrod people, who are mak^ ing what they call a dash for somo mythical city called the Pole (theyi have to be towed there by the way, ..^ and that isn't much of a dash) . havfy- '^ been dined and wined at Lyttelton no cml, and at time of writing theyj just had. to borrow their last match and light up for the last time before setting out on their tramp. It isn't exactly known where the Pole is, on who is mayor of the place, but cer-i tain it is that if it is a tangible as"set, Laurenson, M.P., would like to have it m his back yard, and the fes-< tive juveniles of Lyttelton could playi leap-frog with the wild seals, and l<he tame penguins, and the bull-frogs* that the Pole is supposed to produce for export. When Sbackleton gets there — if ever he does — he might deem it advisable to start a frozen, meat works ; the freezing machinery would be nothing worth speaking of and "Ohristchurch speculators could be bad m plenty to take' up shares.. This proposal might cut no ice m a manner -of .speaking, but it most 'certainly deserves consideration. i Well, when Shackleton arrives he will probably find a Norton's "Truth" 1 boy sitting on a cold wharf who will offer him a "Trujbh" . at double cosfc on account of the warmth of ita H6WB4