PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 144, 21 March 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

'J. Hannah, a bookmaker, had. £80 stolen from his bag at Napier on Wednesday. Some punter evidently, 'getting his own -back. . * * \ ■ • Sculptor Nelson Illingworth's bust of Dick Seddon, which is to adorn • the Parliamentary Buildings, is now completed and will shortly be on view m Wellington. , The bust is one of Mr Illin<gworth's masterpieces. a * • Sydney papers record the fact that a Dr. James, of Wellington, "communicated with Hobart" with telling 'effect. Anyhow, the Doc. is a good sport, and may the Goddess of Luck continue to beam brightly on him. , • * * In the Melbourne Customs House, . clerking at eight "bob" a day, is Andy Dawson, ex-Premier of Q'land, ex-Senator 'and Minister 1 for Defence. Perhaps, however, that is to his credit. Many other politicians go out of the Legislature wealthy men. • . • ■ Police SergcMyt Bcattie, bow. m charge of Taihape, and' recently stationed at Mt. Cook, seems to be establishing himself m the good graces of Taikapeans, where Ms quiet and respectful manner m Court is/something to which "Die Happy" is unaccustomed to. Anyhow, "Truth" only wishes to add that Beattie isn't. . a brow-beater, and it hopes he won't develop into one. • « * *. Dr. Hooken, of Dunedin, m proceeding- to the Bay of Islands, to pick up data for Ms life of Marsden.Marsden was the missionary man who tried to tejach the Maoris where they'd go to if they didn't part up their broad acres. Dr. Hocken is an historian and is chiefly concerned ■& bout where the Maoris came from, i What does it matter where they came from or where they go to. What w« want is a man to tell us what to*' do with them while they are here...' It is "Truth's" religious duty to report that the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt has been moved on from-West-portv to Roxburgh, Central Otago, where he got a call with a golden ring. A local rag 'falls over itself to give the pragmatist a send-off and remarks m a whining sort of way : ''Although we have not seen eye to eye with Mr Pratt ,on the. great liquor jquestion, still we always recognised m him an honorable foe. He openly and earnestly expressed his convictions, and" was never afraid to. attach his name when addressing a letter to the editor of a newspaper. In Mr Prattf the Westport licensed victuallers 1 are getting rid of a strenuous but honorable foe." But what about the widow who sold ginger-pop on the Sawbath and on whoni Pratt pimped ? Very honors-tele foe, isn't he ? « « ■ \ His Excellent Nibs Lord' Plunket,^ it is stated, gave the Maoris some i soodi advice at the Waharoa' "athering. The idea of his inane looking;' nibs giving advice' to a number of j burly Maoris is funny and reminiscent of a little happening m the. Occiden- . tal Hotel, Wellington, some years j ago^ It was at diiiner. and a Maori i noted for his huge proportions, the size of his voice and his lovely candour when mellowed by a few wai- j perps, was sitting 4 opposite a man ; that might pass for Lord Plunket. ' The Maori called for flounder, and I the waiter brought him about an inch of a small flounder's tail. Th° Maori pierced the morsel with his ; fork, and, holding it aloft, roare-i, ''•Do you call that a b flounder?" | The stranger didn't offer good ad- ( vice, he done worse— he smiled. ; "What are you laughing at t ?" roar- \ ed the Maori, "50 years age* we used to eat 'b— — s like you." Guess if Plunk, had been here m those days he'd have been potted' good and ; q.uick, . * * ■ * C. N. Baeyertz, the "Triad" thunderer against over-boomed, over-paid ignorant and illiterate warblers, and critics (?) generally didn't waste time nor spare words over Clara Butt and her husband, and the- result is C.N.B. has been snapped and barked at by every literary ass that imagines it understands art. One of the little misprints that baricsd furiously from its kennel, "not venturing to come out m the open, was that ' curious namesake of ours, that comic cuts sort of ' sausage wrap, yclept eiiristchnreh. "Truth." Baeycrtez biffed it violently and ' ' named " it , like the Speaker does m the House, and remarked as he proceeded to the ' slaughter-lrouse, "People m other parts of the Dominion must not run away with the idea that Christchurch "Truth" is Mr Jofin Norton's "Truth." Mr Norton's "Truth" however much it may be open to crit•icism on some points, is gcnera?ly virile and comparatively honjMgisg-'gj . Thanks, Brer Baeyertz ! Forr^w en's sake let us not be conii with the Christchurch Huie biiv^ sombre Dlumaeo and spurious note..

•Jock Willis, Fullers' Scoteji hupn orist m Christchurch, says ijie best' way to cure sleep-waiking 'm yours wife is to sack the' lodger; .* - ' ' » . • ■ *.'•'■. Mark Twain is the boss humorist o! his time, and. also, .-/the best worst business man of this' and the last 'cen-^ tury. He has just been taken down for something over £6000 by foolishly becoming president : of a, swindling milk product company: Evidently! they knew Mark was a "good mark"* to milk. v* •' Sir G. R. Hun%e, K.C.M.GV. Governor of South Australia, is a candidate for. membership to the British Esperanto Association. What lime Hunte was Governor of New Guinea, he was looked upon by the fetjr white residents as a bis.-,rat£y. Perhaps they were wrong, "maybe he was "only, studying Esperanto. -• > : , •* ■ « Magistrate Riddell is now being called "The Iron Duke," and a member of this paper's secret service corps reports that the S.M. is pleased greatly. He.jinijen'ds "Truth" m future. What fit it turns out that the iron man has feet of clay ? Some idols are easily shattered .by th» first iconoclast that happens along. « « • ■■■'■ Motor fiend Charles Glidden, of U.S.A., 'Murca, who has 'just, belched the first motor car into Jerusa- ' lem, made Christchurcli his base two years ago what time he motored ;to the southernmost point of New Zealand. When Shackleton gets to the South Pole he will find, without kiddin', that a bounder lite Glidden will have ridden or sliddcn unbidden over the Globe's loiig-'hidden bottom, which is composed;, of much the same sort of -earth trod by the Yid m Jerusalem. • * • •■ i Rev. R. Jackson, Presbyterian pilot of Timaru, has set aii . example to others of the cloth which isn't likely to be followed out m itsr entirety. Recently he was ' entertained . at some sort of shikkerless ' shivoo and he was actually begged; to ;tako a purse of iquidseys, and, remarkable to relate, he declined the boodle, observing- that it was time that pub- ' lie presentation of purses _„t o persons who had been well paid was put an end to. The purse was finally handed to the debt extinction fund. • *•!•'■' * Mr J. C. Williamson arrived back m 'Stralia t'other day by the Asturias, after a nine months' trip to - Europe and America. His new attractions are "Peter. Pan," with Tittell- Brune m tlie~"title role ; "The Merry Widow," with Carrie' Moore as principal, and George Castles as first tenor ; Margaret Angiiri and an American company to play "The Thief," and other new dramas ; and "Mrs Wiggs, of the Cabbage Patch/ with Emily Melvjilc as Mrs Wiggs. Ada Crossley And company- arrive m September "and Saru Bernh&rdt m May, 1909. , ■ . Since taking up duty as Sub-In-spector of Police on the Duiieclin sta- ; tion, Samuelf B. Norwood has proved j himself no mug. It's a healthy sign inia police official when he is well j-likod by both officers and men. and j Samuel P. has already achieved that. !He has turned out a first-class man iin -Court work as well as m admin- • istrative, and can easily give points . to many of the suckling lawyers who ; arc constantly harrying him;. In fact .m this latter inspect Jic is easily ■ the best man who has handled the, charge-sheet there for many, a day, ' He is decently honest, too, 'and, at> ! though always ready for sharp pra'c-'* tice, will never plavdirtv m orders. ito obtain a conviction— thereby maI terfally differing from many of his j predecessors. Evidently the Dinnie • administration made a mistake when they picked Nonfood, for he's ndii the kind ! they generally sort out for promotion. May the bald head of Sa- \ muel long shine m prominent rlacesti ■■ * m ■ ■■■ The legal firm of Wilford and LeYi has been greatly perturbed, disturbs err and annoyed of late by the receipt, of letters from other legal firms m Auckland asking to be handed over the papcrsj. cash and What-not belonging' to one Llewellyn Morgan, nephew, or brother, or something ot the sort of some aristocratic person alleged to be . Lady Linford. o* ■Crompton Hall, Silly Sussex, or Sui> rey, or Whitechapel or« Somewhere. Now. as W. and L. don't know Llewellyn Morgan from any other organ, or Gorgon, or any kind of cheese, the firm suspect that the other legal persons m Auckland are the victims of a hoax or a swindle, and Mr L. Morgan might sooner or later find himself confronted by a 'tec, who will want to know. Fancy lawyers being victimised, but the* Ferris incident of years agone, where 'Well-.,-' ington Costs profession were badlK bitten, show that lawyejg^ws? 1 111' 11 ''' "•*