PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 145, 28 March 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Master mariners" call New- Zealand's chief weather prophet "Captain Headwind./? ' . * »•> ■ • •«•- Ben Fuller, as everybody knows, is a charming . conversationalist. However, to hear him reach the highest pitch of burning eloquence, just get him going on insurance. l * * *: : Beak Bishop, of Christchurcfi, is a-, verse to' corporal punishment, and it is pretty safe to say that his report on Te Oranga Home will contain a suggestion to eliminate this brutalising means of chastisement. •' * •. • Reported that Vice-Admiral Wilroot Fawkes, who recently . resigned the command of the so-called Australian Squadron, has invested m a pastoral property m the Western District of Victoria to become a Woolbales when the time comes for him to go on the. naval shelf. .• .. • . '.•'-' ' ''■ Pierce C. Freeth, latest "New Zealand Times'?' editorial freak, is about the most shining example of the conscienceless journalist that can be pointed, to at present. Till he 'joined , the moaning paper he. was a great no-license, prohibition advocate, and whatever else can be charged against the' "Times," it's not guilty, nor will ever be guilty, of cursing Bung * and all his pomps. Journalists can change their opinions, particularly broad-minded, honest and manly journalists, but freak "Freeth" isn't anything m that line. He's a chame-leon-like rodent with no principle worth the mention. * • • Sad news comes from Melbourne. Miss Joan Burnett, only daughter of Mrs Burnett, known to fame as Miss- Jennie Lee, the "Jo" of still greater fame, died at East Melbourne recently. While coming to Australia a few weeks ago, she contracted a cpld which developed into tion. She was to have appeared yin "Peter Pan, "under Mr- J.C: Williamson's management. The " Jo" of happy memories was with her daughter at the end. What a melancholy coincidence. "Jo" dies of consumption, and now the only daughter of the woman, who gave us an undying "Ja" succumbs to the same fell disease. * «. • A' Wellington journalist, not un- : known to readers of the official organ of the Kennel Club, has evolved from the troubled tangle of his thinking-box a gory tragedy. Aforesaid tragedy contains about nineteen million thrills, countless murders, and a few suicides. During; the last few days Salmon and Chester, of Fullers' vaudeville show, have tried it on a Dunedin crowd, and so far have not been driven off the stage. Latest news is that the inkslinger bas had to purchase a new lrat, and is getting his dress-suit cleaned, with visions m his mind of calls for author from a Wellington crowd within the next few weeks. ' ; *• • - I Henry Driimmond Wolff, m his rei miniscences, recalls recollections of Lola Montez, the notorious dancer and one-time mistress of the old King of Bavaria, who created her Countress of Lansfeldt (remarks Melbourne "Truth"). The King's infatuation for her led to 'a revolution .and his abdication. But Wolfl does not refer to her Australian experiences. She i came to Victoria m the fifties, and appeared &s a star dancer m the Cremorne G-ardens, Richmond, after- ! wards visiting the goldfields, • where the diggers absolutely "chucked" I gold at her.- It is also related that a then young man, who recently died at Wellington, New Zealand, gave her presents valued at £2000. He says : "I was, rewarded with a smile." ; Lucky man ! Was that all he got 'from the notorious woman ? ' * • . .• , This is intended to be a personal paragraph, because it concerns a person of no personality whatever, and, moreover, shows the sort of animal Donald Dinnie's brother admits antl suffers, and is practically forced to kick out of the police ranks. The person "par'd" is Jack Irwin, exGisborne copper. Convicted of a brutal assault on an old man, the prospects of the beer-swiping slop of becoming a gaol-bird loomed very large and he accordingly whined about the Poverty Bay canital to that effect. His tears softened the heart of a barmaid named Ida Dunlop, came down handsomely with a "tenner" as §?~ loan , to save the skunk from donning arv arrow-marked suit. Having >gP;ti -the ""tenner" and satisfied the Law's demands, Irwin turned nasty, and as there was a split m the camp (the barmaid Watson and Bung joe Burke camps), Jacky ratted to the side where there was" plenty of. booze and the alluring hope of whips of boodle. Barmaid Ida's chance of regaining the "tenner" doesn't seem anything like a sporting one, and The latest is that Jackv Ihe little rat is to be sued m Gisborne for- its .recovery. G-isborne, anyhow, bftj^J^ad^ much to talk over of late ap*?^* wants something -additional from going rusty X \

Comedian-, George - !L^uri?s;*fieafdi still causes anxiety, and . Ms medical adviser orders another long spell. ■' » ■* ' • • "Truth", doesn't know for sure, and expects Police Commissioner . Dinnie to correct us, if wrong, but. it be-, lieves the boss bobby is a brother ofi the celebrated Scottish .wrestler* Donald Dinaie. Perhaps brothe* Willie doesn't wish to claim the re^ lationship: Some brothers could not be blamed if they :did. • . v > • • • Blanche Corelli, who treads firmlyt on Fullers' "Earth,- has struck 'em all of a heap m Christchurch, where her warble seems to have mellowed with! success and the joy-giving fact of a triple nightly. ; Also", the frank legs of Brightie Smith provoke frenzied, applause . m the' holy city, and her short skirt is a joy forever. /*- * • The -invention ' of "a telegraph -typewriter by Donald Murray,- formerly -a reporter on the Sydney "Herold," is likely to prove more remunerative to him than was p : ress work. Donald: who poss r e&ed i a very auburn head of haar, and was a great favorite with the ladies, has been working on his invention for nearly tr.fr years. It is approved by the British Post Office, andxis now to bfe • used also m Australia, . . , « . • « ' ■What a self-booming egotistical goat is one,T. W.- McDonald, who once, unfortunately for Lowei: Kutt, was its Mayor. This McDonald man is some sort of a swashbuckler ol the feather-bed variety, and belongs to Tasmania, where pjeople commtt*nicate with under extraordinary di*« ficulties. Some time ago he wenij for a holiday to the tight and sleepy 1 little isle and started to act the g^d&T angora , before he left by extensirsly advertising that he was executing commissions in' hands-across-thefsea kid-stakes. Perhaps he got one o* two "commissions m the lottery lino, too. Anyhow, while m Tasmania ha was feted and made much of by th» Premier, whom Mac. had fed vi'hiW he was m Wellington. Now Mac's back, and we hear he was presented with a gold medal by the people of Castra' for being a good bloke. Tber» are lots of Tasmanians m Welling-* ton, anyhow, who know the cringing cove for what he's worth, and their opinions of him are unprintable. Honors seem to simply sh&wer en Tom Wilford. whom this paper suspects will yet be a Minister of tbe Crown. As Chairman of the Harbor Board/ Tom W. is lending dignity, and, what is more, wisdom 1o that position, and cavillers and critics have simply bad to shut up. and. metaphorically, swallow their slimy insinuations. Now, Tom is coming to light as a patron of sport, aad what more fiiting than that a New, Zealand born -and bred' should i)t electedsVice-presiderit of the Welling* ton Rugby Union. , This paper f however, quite' , understands why the choice or the Union should be so illreceived m "one quarter that wants to , run Rugby for their own selfaggrandisement. In defeating ' Coir onel Campbell, .it lbqks as if Tom will be a moral as chairman of the annual N.Z.R.U. meeting, perhaps President, and this is just what the clique wj£h to avoid, and as that mem* orable rule re vice-presidents residinc? m the district has served a, so-callrcl useful purpose, the wisdom of Solomon's utterance about digging a pit hits . the cliquish r.rowd right oft thfc solar plexus. Campbell's pretty wp*l out m the cbld now, but ye Gods, just wait till the ropes are worked. "Truth" wouldn't miss the annual conclave for 50 obuli, be Ihey f)ra,ss.-new-chum gold, or any other kind metal. Now. that Thomas Mason Wilford, M.H.R., is vice-president of the Wcl* lington Rugby Union, "carping critics, born idiots, goats of the he variety, buffoons, fools ami asses generally, loudly aver that the said . T.M W 1 never played the winter game m hj«t natural. Now that assert io'i v\* assorts with veracity because, nd it's interesting to know too, Tou ii-.xa a Rugby record of some merit. m '87 he played centre three-quartei. foe Christ College m the senior rank and ' represented .the "same College againsfi the Dunedhi High School, the same year. In '88 he joined the Wellington F.C., and played m both junior anrt senior competitions. He organised the Epunis, and was the skipper when that team toured through IVian- ~ awatu and Feilding. It was white captaining the Eps. against Wellington that *Tom broke Ins leg, and a'f* ter that he donnefl the Jersey onlii occasionally. What is more, it was, Tommy who played as left ■tl-rec-quarter for WelliTtgton when a 'o~bination tested tbe strength of ( c Native team that went to the Old Dart. So smart and nippy was *-\n now Hutt's Parlianifntary Watch- o«£ / that he was specially iohl^.y*if^U'- r j&ateh SLS&&&4b&m}. ie io^'

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