PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

The daily press related that.Stout, C.J., partook of Christmas dinner, with 200 Maoris at Rotorua. What they didn't mention was that, tho titled Judge -dined on water cress and seven bananas. ■ • •-» « ■ It is worthy of note that with the entertainment given at the Town Hall last Wednesday -evening, Mr Edmund Montgomery commenced his eleventh year as a theatrical manager m the Dominion. .Surely this is ' something of a record. *'* ' " > Lizzie Smith and Dora ' Wanning, of Mataura, are putting m their summter vacation cycling over the Crown range to Wjanaka, through the v Otago goldfields and down to Milton, a distance of 200 miles. The ■ future mo- | thers of New Zealand aren't afraid of mice. * ' * * ' 'Amongst the latest engagements made by Manager J. C. Williamson is that of George Castles, brother of the. only Amy and sister Dolly. Wonder if Ma will also take to opera —also pa, who, by the way, is (or was) a compositor attached to a Melbourne morning paper. ■** . * Paddy Gorman, who kept the Criterion Hotel m Napier for many years and was subsequently mine host at Hastings, has come Wellington-wards for the Trentham meeting. Paddy was one of the few publicans who never drank his own liquor or any- j body else's, and at 82 is as active* and lively as a two-year-old m spite of 'his abnormal waist-band. * * • " Donne is King of Rotorua, but a person named Birks is Deputy-^Gover-nor, and runs things to the-dissatis-faction of visitors. It would be a ..; good investment if the Tourist De- i partment were to lose Birks down the Waimangu Geyser or. transfer him N to the State 'Coa! Department, or make him awarder m a lunatic' asylum. Birks has no tact. «*• - - I < 'They're off. Mr Cutts!" Heaven only knows where the expression originated, but elderly Ted Cutts, Clifford's trainer, who is the person mentioned." was at Trentham, withhis white hair trailing m the breeze. The old boy didn't turn a whisker when Fleetfoot crept up and beat Stead's best by a head m the five Jurlongs, but remarked cheerfully that lie expected it. • '•» . * * The'most travelled publican. in Wei- j lington is Mr Frederick Dobson, who has Recently,, taken over the Masonic. | As chief steward m different boats: j of nearly all the English and Colonial Tsliipp ing companies, the seaports i that he hasn't visited are not worth putting on any well-regulated map. If all the friends that he has made during his wide journeyings came to Wellington the Masonic wouldn't hold them. As it is all those that are m this city find their way to that popular fountain and proclaim themselves satisfied -that Frederick is the right man m the right- pub. - * . *..■■■ . -Tom Wilford went to Rotorua .for a ,_ holiday, and was immediately waited , upon by a Maori, fishery .deputation, a deputation that is shocked at the -expense of ; the sanatorium new baths, ! a deputation that wanted- some roads opened "m the ; Waikato, a deputation that is-”- desirous of extending the triain sei-yice to join the coach track at Tokanu ; a -.deputation interested m netting the lake for big fish, and a (jfeputatito'that^ wants a large pub built" on vitße shores ofthe lake. The Hittt's bsn rep.' was wearing a white Tussore silk suit and a hat made for . royalty,' 'oi* something equally unusu- •' ailj'^ahd the 'simple inhabitants probfsly thought he was Joe Ward .or Gpvernof -l^unk';. Wilford, with cheerful 'bptinftsm, . promised to give 'the matters his earnest consideration.. ■ '."' V'- ' -."_•"»•'.■'.• ; : _•' '* Coleman! Phillips recently returned to^Cartertbn from a visit to Australia, .and wwar.s r . prosecuted by the boi'o'ugh foreman' for using too much yfater on..his cabbages. Coley is a popular old cuss, whp;.ls.u',t taken seriously. i£e- onee _. made it a stipulation, /of employing^ men that they should knock him .bu!i_ with the skinjtight glpveis on, v'but he is rather too ,;old fojv that>nbw," as Maccabe used?: to sittg." Phillips. w3io is one of the chos,©n, :>>has fluctua/ting aspirations.vtb Parliamentary honors, and holds. ;Jthe opinion that the gross im-mpral-ity pi^valent m this great and glorious country is due to thc parsons and their repressiyc teachings on the sex question. Houses of ill-fame he regards as -a necessary evil, and questioned on the subject, oacc at an election mectine:. he said he was m ■ favor of legislation that would permit of the establishment of moll shops m the different centres— say four m Masterton, two m Carterton, and one eacli m Greytown and Featherston. With this outlet for youth-! ful exuberance, the daughters or the community would be at ih« mrrcv of no man, and sexual offences would he reduced to a minimum. Coleman Phillips is a solicitor.; I

Tote-shop man vJacfc Wren and George jVlusgrpve are likely to be seen "playing partners" m some frig Aus* tralian theatrical ventures ere long. Hughie Mitchell, editor of Christ* chiiroh "Star," popularly knov/n ad "Mother"; amongst his intimate ac-» quaintances, pocketed reasonable winnings over the success of southern, horses at Trentham. "Mitchic", is going to "do" the Main Drunk line on pleasure bent, but no one will ber astonished if the "Lyttelton Titnes" ; nrofits m a literary sense by the trip." ■'* • « An unknown Carterton correspondent writes that ardent fishermati Jack O'Meari informed against thef four small boys whom the police fail* cd to convict of trout jagging t'othetr day. He even, lent the bobby his own bike -to effect a capture. "Truth"' doesn't know if it is true or not, ancl offers the use of these columns to the grocery expert to vindicate his charr_ aeter. * ■ ■ George Cork, who owns Wellington Cup winner Moloch, is a" clerk m thar office of Charlie Pownall, Masterton, solicitor, who used to own the noddy) himself. The ugly Mauser horse musti have cost Pownall a small ( fortune, and it is the irony of fate that i*B should start winning big things justi after he parted with thc animal. Cork and another purchased Moloch' after the Feilding meeting." conse- . quently all the plums go to the naW! ownership. * * X Miss Duleie Deamsr, the WairarapA missie, who writes so shrewdly ori the sex subject, and who has long been noted for -her dramatic abilities, is, so "Truth" understands, going ori the stage, and sets out shortly oh et New Zealand tour with the Taylor r Cajrr ington. combination. Miss Dea-* nifcr certainly has a histrionic future) m front: of her, -and this" paner-, ,trus*se it will be ope long . run of. It's up to New Zealand to pjfbduce. arf actress of note. But why start with the Taylor-Carrington crowd 1 * « « After spending 28; years thinking a*» bout fires and pondering over* howi a great many of them occur, ijtx Ar-j chibald Smjith is resigning the billet of manager of the Standard Insur-i ance Company at Christchurch, Tha occasion was a fitting one for other fire-riskers to get a few remarks oi% their chests m Antil Adley's offip? the .other day, and they did so m. the usual present manner. Mr Dcven-i ish Meares was m the chair, and pre-< sented the guest with a handsome leather-bound album which was pr*. faced by an address. *'■> * * . Veteran •J. D. Ormond. whose horses prevailed at Trentham, is one of the original "twelve apdstles" who divided up Hawke's Bay amongst them. Blessed, with everything this world ■ can give, Ormbnd's family. speculations haven't, heen too fortunate. His .eldest son George reared! a istrge -family, of ..haif-castes on a station somewhere around Wairoa, and Frank, the second son, marriefi the daughter of an ex-hanker.. whbsci' ' virtue was subsequently tarnished by] several men, as revealed" m the - divorce court. Ormond pere is fretting very white, on it now, but still musters sufficient enersrv to protest violently against legislation passed foe the amelioration of the insolenti working classes. Napier -Harbor. Beard proudly named its- dredge th* "J.D.0." after its Tory chairman, and it is the Mnd of tiling* thati . ought to be named after a man like that. If Ormond had dene as much for his fellow-beings as he has dona t<*> produce a leggy race of. tenderfooted sprinters his name would Ire worth handing down to posterity. -_ ....,.»■*.. > Billy Low, Pollard's manager, haa goo.i cause to remember an 4 iegvet the company's visit to Hamilton. Pollard's struck the Waikato town just as a trotting meeting wss m full blast, and the trotting meeting was responsible for the gathering of the spieling and thieving class, who* steal other people's eyes if the said people weren't looking through them* or would pinch a man's teeth if he. kept his mouth open. . Pollard's met with their customary success ami Billy's brief bag after the perform-, ance was something of consider- ' able value. Consequently Billyj was. a marked man. He hung vni to that bag after the showT J •with the fervor of a saint andi the firmness of a bull-dog." Thoughts of his own valuable possessions were the last thing. Result next morning was that the baa; and the boodle were safe ; but not so Billy's scold, watch and chain and dearly .mzeri medals for his prowess m the athletic field. Some contemptible thief or thieves got away with .all of these,' and a more 'sadder man does not exist to-day m the Dominion. Perhaps the heart or the conscience (if hai possess either) of (he tlu>f can - b*' touched to return Billy's beloved tokens. "Truth," however, is afraid, that such an appeal is.nva.de m vain.. Er* this the let have go»e into th« '.me.tin**- Dot.