PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 161, 18 July 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Mr R. Essex, late Mayors .;6f- : 3?almerston North, has- >heen .suffering;' L ill-hearth of late, and withva^ißw#'t^%;r,i;coveVing; will shortly take ' .^-^ii'^^T^hiiSlapd-^^''' ' : - «' ". ■",*";-.:; ' • 'fOO^A-y'' '.'rV, 7 Dr. M. B. Boyd 'claims' to h^ve invent-.:, ?d an air-ship that will carry ; ' r loib tons dead weight. stay m the air f(^r .48 hours, aud travel at the.r ate of, eighty miles an hour. But be' it • marked the ship is not built yet. ' ' * ■ -•» . '*'' T .; ■ ..'•'■ ■

Victor to Wellington during f&c week Was Charlie Eagar from Ns£bn. Charlie only stayed a few days m Wet and>Windv and got back on Thursday "'to his own caravansary m Sleepy Hollow. Hoy reckons it's all a tale about Nelson Ijeihg sleepy. .;Says he never 'can get any sleep. • .■'■ ' ' •' '■

Judge Rogers, New South Wales,: ha,s,._ commended a young : man for throtyihg^a ; bottle at another man who usqd : indecent-, language; m the presence of a r^nfcc-%®]^ woman. The Judge's idea, is right erib^i:.' m a way. Using indecent /language' 'i^a^ crime which deserves personal' cha£ti§ev , ment, but really honest indignation rights' With its fists. ,'■ : v ■ * » .';■ * V i : '_''

Earl Carrington, who. is. "fond of champagne himself, has told ' a meeting ■• of 50,000 alleged teetotallers thajK^he . British Government recognises , thdt ; m fighting the Licensed > Victuallers • .Association, it is fighting the richest organised trade m the world, but it meant to take its coat, off and wade m all the. same. At the same time he described pubiicrhousekeeping as a beneficent trade. Carrington always had a habit of leaving himself a hole to crawl out through.

'*.■■•'■ -■ '■ Mr W: McLean, who. it -w.il'l'. lie rcnwrnr bered, ran Mary Ann to a. head, fo?:'Wellington East last election^ will contest, the seat next December. (Some of the leading members of the Liberal and Labor Federation and other citizens will entertain Mr McLean- on Monday-, -night -next m the New Century Hall. .It- is early m the day to anticipate, but. Mr.^Tcpcan has always been a staunchMtiberaiv'aTidin view of the great fight he. nut up last time, he should '"just about secure •the seat./

"Teddy" Roosevelt intends, when his term "of office expires, to pay a visit to China. Tho Chinese Mirtister at Washington, Wu Tin* Fting (or Tooth), has requested, the Chinese Government to puike all the necessary arrangements to give him a glorious reception, it is not jrenerally known that during his term of office the American President is not allowed tp gad-about outside his own dominions. Some "lion hunting" Australians will no , doubt suggest that Theo.. R. be invited to visit "Our States."

Mr Fleming, of Port Levy, near Timaru, is a white man and. unafraid of the miserable leaders of public opinion. When the hypocritical newspapers diver ted subscriptions' from .Wind-man McCarthy hecause the woman he was living with was not. his wife, Fleming wrote that the £10 subscri. bed . by him should he forwarded to McCarthy as at first nominated., so that the man whose life has been darkened will not he entirely penniless. By the way it has. 'been suggested that as the various amounts were subscribed fora specific purpose, namely;' McCarthy; that afflicted person could recover all , the moneys m a Court of Law.

One of the old breed of hardy diggers recently went over to the Great Unknown-, m St. Vincent's Hospital. Sydney, m the person of Paddy McFadden. Paddy was not unknown on the New Zealand fields, m fact.vhe was known on almost eyery gold field m Australasia. In the early days of Palmer, Etheridge. and Hodgkirison fields -m North Queensland, he was -there; he had been on almost every field of importance m both Neto South Wales and A^ctoria. and had 'been m Western Australia when the present city of Kalgo'orlic was a wilderness- of sand and stunted salt bush. Paddy. had a mate m Jack White, and* they worked together for 42 years.' White was . a firreat reader, and some few years ago he was stricken blind, from that time until his death Paddy cared for him as a mother might for a son. He left what little money he had- 'to the hospital, where he received his last attention. He and White were always white men, and if they are not mates still m the best part of the next world— well, there ain't no next world.

I Bob Sievisr, better known as "Bob Sutton," and the publisher of a London publication called . "Tho Winning Post." lis again m the wet, having been com[mitted on a charge of having threatened to publish defamatory matter relating to the 'well "'la.. own- South African magnate. J. B. Joel, for the purpose of extorting 1 £$6.00 jfrom him. Will poor old Bob's troubles ! never cease. As the owner of that brilliant , mare Sceptro and other good .performers Sievier had a great career on the English turf (and a ereat flutter m aristocratic, dovecots), but a cduple of transactions being regarded as somewhat shady, he , incurred the displeasure of that august body tlie English Jockey Club, and was sent into retirement. He next blossomed as ' the publisher of the paper referred to. which being a trifle blue has gained notoriety. and for a time all was plain sailinnr. Some little time agq> he was white-wash-ed by the Jockey Club, arid a book entitled "Who Goes Racing ?" * was lotud m his praises as a straight-goer. Next he is charged with publishing '"blue stuff" m his paper, but is only fined a small sum on condition that he is a rood boy and doesn't do it again. Now he seems to be m a worsT fix than ever, hut it may .be a case of "When night is darkest, dawn is. nearest." By this time Bob will probably have arrived at the conclusion that the way. ol the sinner 1 is

Mr^L'.-.Dwan, of the well-known firm" ol ■ho.tejj'-i brokers, is shortly leaving for ' ai| exteitded trip .to Sydney and Melbourne.; Brother Tom had a trip last rear, so Tarn thinks it a fair thing ' that ho should take a spell this year. -- v. .. ■'." ■_"-.* * . * Young Grant, 'who captains the Dannej virks High School football team, is a splendid sample of the muscular New}' Zealander. He weighs close on 15 stones What will he. be like when he is thirty 7i A tcani of forwards of the Grant type would soon settle any of these British bull-dogs. • ■ * I . ■ - * * ;" Private advices received m Wcllimrtotf /record the death of Mrs A. M. Coombes^ of the United Service .Hotel. Auckland.The deceased lady was well known aad highly respected, gll over New Zealand.. She -was a prominent sportswoman, anu amongst other horses she owned tfeaii "grjat performer. Master Delaval. .'.. •■(vv v * * . -■' * : ' &Mx )t George Hartnett. of Wanganui, afi *-oftb.J.time"'a well-known sporting writer. tUifder the norn he plume of "Pakeba" m .the Wanganui "Herald," has again been. JJald up m the^ local hospital .with kie old i complaint, acute rheumatism. At.tkn latest advice he was doing well. eni ex-" pected to be able to quit the iKstitati** at an early date.

, The Misses Killoen. for many year* residents of Tinakori Road. Wellington; were amongst the passengers by tha Mocraki. which sailed for Sydney vesterr day. _ These ladies will spgnd a few weeks m, Sydney along with their broth-, er, Con., who has taken up his por-« manent abode th^re, 'and will sail fos Dublin where they intend to reside m future. •'■•'.»

Not a single mourner attended the- f t__M eral of an old Indian Mutiny voWcaa, VsW ward Denien, who died recently at _?»rt,land (Victoria) Benevolent Aeyliiai. Denien accomapnied Sir Colin CsjiaiJartl's expedition to the relief of Lucluoaw. He had for many years been repoiviag a BnraH; , pension. Oh the day of Deuiea's flesrfti another Luckhow veteran', 7 ' Dr. «J irtmn stone,, sought admission to ttw aeylnra.

The moving spirit among th»Near I^jfj mouth licensed victuallers^ is Mr Petes Mcllvridge, of the Criterion Hotel, *tew, Plymouth. He rounded up the tc»«_e apaorally and awakened them to the iae* that unless they were preparad to ©raft for their liberty the Prohibs. would^fcfte it from them. It i» really surprisuuc how few publicans are alive to the importaaoa of looking "after their own interests ia this respect.

.-' Returned from a trip to Australia - ty_ the Warrinioo on Wednesday is Jim JS'air-* way, the popular proprietor of the ' 'Sliver Grid." Jim looks as if be had bwrafitsd by the trip, and assured a r«px«se»r tative of this paper that he had jest osjoyed himself out of sight. He basa'ifeeMc away many weeks ;• but he got ipsa* coma and seems to have seen everythinV werfc seeing, and when *it comes to Übingja worth' seeing, ; we haven't got it all on otifl! own over here. .

Mr Adam Cowan, m charge of , thei "When Knights Were Bold" Oempany, arrived m Wellington from tho South on Thursday morning. It is some time since Adam was m Wellington last ana he has- put on flesh m the meantime. ' ■• lit he is not careful he will be developing a bingy. During the recent discussion >q» the Christchurch City Council's absurA by-law m. regard to issuing theatre-tick-ets,'* Mr Cowan's temperate remarks mo* with universal approval, and lif his ideas were carried out there would be no ncces-; sity for such silly by-laws.

In the course of his lecture at Otakf the other night. Mr Palk stated that it was a common fallacy to suppose -thai, gossip was restricted to afternoon teas and ladies' sewing guilds. He felt convinced that men were equally as suiltv. of- indulging m gossip as the' ladies, aneJ instanced the gatherings at creameries, butter factories' and sale yards as fur-> nishing excuses for plenty of gossip by the sterner sex. His- remarks were heartily applauded by tne ladies .of the audience, while 'the men present smiled hunioredly. , And as a sample cf the garrulous person Mr Palk takes: the pastry. . ' . - .

The 'Marquis of Queensberry, the latest convert Jko Rome, will take -a plae« among the English Roman Catholics second only .to the Duke of Norfolk. Tha Marquisate is much older than that of the Ma^juisatc. of Bute, and if "Old 0" had been more careful he , would have passed on a dukedom as well, as a personalty of a million, before they put him -away into the cold vaults at St. James's, Piccadilly. The present Marquis is a second son. His elder brotues was a promising politician whom Lor* Rosebcry created Baron Kelhead. and was under, Secretary at the Foreka Office when a gun accident cut short his career. and put his younger brothsr ia his place.

Admiral Charles Stillman Sperm who commands the American Fleet.. -which is on its wav to Australasia, has w«rked through all branches of the service. He is 61 years of aec. When 19. he graduated at . the United States Naval Academy, and received the rank' of >nstm two years later. In March. 1869, he was made a master, and after various pre- '•■ motions was made a captain m July, 1809/ and a rear-admiral m May, 1906. He was president of the United States War lege m 1903. In addition to his wida naval knowledge, he has a diplomatic reputation, and has been entrusted -with most important missions. In 1906, when a conference was held at Geneva, for a revision of the Geneva Convention for th« treatment of the sick and wounded m war, Rear-Admiral Sperry was one oLthe dele- 1 gates from the United States. In the fol- J lowing year he attended the Peac* Uon-w. ferenceat the Hague'as^a represeatativa^^ thp JJnited States Government.; "^^