PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 179, 21 November 1908, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Dr. Pollen* port health 'officer, returned ' from Melbourne, where he had been attending the Medical Congress, by the Mabeno on Wednesday.. ? * ' * ' Mt Prank Marshall . and his good lady, having spent a brief hdliday m Aus.tralia, returned by the Mabeno on Wednesday. Frarik looks exceedingly -well, not to say handsome, after his sojourn m the sunny State. • ■• * Mr C, E. Button, formerly a . Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominion, al- ■ tex touring the land of the Chow returned to Wellington on Wednesday. He foretells trouble for New Zealand, from Chinese and Japanese industrial competition.; •■ * • OH 'John Mayo, owner of Lord Nolan, is the man of the moment. ( ,He is a dapper little Irish-Australian who carries his 60 odd years lightly, a lengthy experience of the vicissitudes of, the turf having taught him a sounder, philosophy than, can be learnt from boofcg,; * ' • . ■. .4. ' . West Australian pressman, Alfred Carsoa, reached God's .Own Country by the Mabeno on Wednesday last. Carson, who is sub-editor of the "West Australian," is on a no-license jag, and should gain a lot of profitable and unprofitable information m this ahnost wowser-tidden • land. v • m • Mr C. E. Major, when addressing the electors of Patea, stated as one reason why he fle returned to Parliament, that he might be given portfolio. The electors considered the jmatter; very seriously, nod ■' not cozing to take 1 any chances of jCharles being a Min--l Istet, gave him the order of ti» k^ockj ■ . • • • • ■■'. ' Pat Burke, the genial publican of Christohuich, and for many years president of the Chxistchxirch Licensed Vie* toallers Association, looks as blooming <as gver awl fft for any amount of tongue banging with the. cold,, tea crowd. Now that the elections ate over and the ' liquor issue decided for three years, Pat is thinking 61 takSng a trip to "the Old .Dart,; . / ft "Truth" representative had a yarn with that old salt, Capt. R. Stewart, master ol the Pateena, ythis week. ''Bob" laughed vociferously when asked if he intended to vacate the- sea to .go on the land, and regarded the statements to that effect as a great „ joke. As a* matter of fact;,. Mrs Bob,, who has not been m good health for , -some time, is taking a holiday m Syd- , ney. Bob will still continue to navigate the. Pateena. ' . , • * " Peter Airey, who resigned >his portfolio m ' protesft against "Kidder" Kidston's > coalition with the Queensland Conservative' tive Party., is possibly more, widely known as a poet than a politician. Many stirrfeg. songs breathing the true ■ spirit of Democracy have been printed m the ••Bulletin" , over Peterfc pep name, "P. Luftig." But that was before the editorial .control of ttoe "Bully" had been turned over to Bnsiness-manager McLeod and the advertising canvasser^ mm - ■ * Carrie and Plantagenet Bigwood reached : Fremantle on the mail' steamer Qroya on Tuesday, . says Sydney "Truth," and sailed away next day. Plantagenet said that they were glad to get away ftom AustraKa-f which is very . unkind of Carrie, as Australia and Ans'traHans l>ave been very kind to her. Planty says that when Carrie :has finished her Christmas panto, engagement, HE is going to take her to South ( , Africa to s.hoot lions. Planty does not say at whose expense the lion hunting is to-be done- Shooting the moon will be* neari et tb it, . ..•• • . i "Troth" durlag tie week received from 1 Killarney a postcard from Wandering Wally Fuller, who, wrth Mrs Waiter F-,' arrayed at the Lakes somewiiere about Octobtr 3. last. Walter reports having had a great and glorious 1 time ; the. weather everywhere being perfect and everything m the garden being lovely. -John, j senr>, is due back m Wellington shortly, \ Ben -and missus being now somewhere m i the vicinity ol Thursday Island to give the old man the glad band of welcome back. 4 At latest, John, iunr., w,as m and aa popular as ever with all the boys.* •. « m Acting ? Tec< Andrews returned from Sydney by the JVlaheno on Wednesday with one Milford Burgess, alias ~ohn Williams, m tow. Burgess was arraigned before Magistrate Riddell on the Same morning on five charges of housebreaking, and wai remanded for a week. Chief 'Tec, m repJy to the beak's query as tos Burgess' occupation, when the latter applied for bail, sard, "He's a housebreaker ; I cant say that he. does anything else." Bail, self m £200 and two sureties o( £100 each, said /its Worship, and "Truth" is assured that Burgess Will have no difficultly m Ending the :necessary bonds, which points a moral. ' •.■»*■ An inoffensive person named Wk&es recently struck Australia, and on returning to tie land nf his nativity (is'.Z.J, had a tale of woe to unfold, says a Victorian paper. Everwhefe be went Tie was mistaken for Thomas Bpnt. He was bailed up m all sort! of corners and asked all sorts of ivouliar qw,stirhis , but he reached the *jmi* one morning vihen, hay- 1 ing staved out late overnight, *ie slept at a strange lintel. Going down for a meal at tbe strange pub. he no triced flic .girls looking ai: him and giK&ling. and .naturally enquired the reason. "Oh, we know you, Sir Thomas." .■wtiri one of diem, "you've, been out fiH night,. oh, fie.' 1 Those girls evidently . knew Tom's remarkable habits. Wickes found ;t <o. inconvenient and disgraceful to be taken for Best that toe took tfce next boat'iwck to NTew Zealand. Truly, ia Bent, ..Vic. vtoria has a beavjr burden %o bear*

.', Mrs Harry Thaw is m a private asy-> lum m New York. She is quite broken down, and her wits have gone after her character. Her- path . has been a "Thaw"-ny one. < * • » Lady Warwick,' the titled democrat--declares that society, has been captured by the itierely rich, who are not sensible of any checks. Quite true. It's the merely' poor who are truly sensible ~of •cheques. -• *-\ • • "• Gen. Kuropatkin has contracted with! -one of the magazines to tell us all about how it didn't happen as it should have happened during the late Japanese-Rus-sian unpleasantness. It is rather curious that Pat didn't think of this earlier. •'■'•■■• The defeat of Minister McNab at the poll ds largely .attributed to his attitude m. supporting the £5,000 grant on the estimates to Meikle. The people of Southland have no time for Meikle, and have shown their opinions m the treat* tfnent »eted out to McNab. Bob Lloyd, the inimitable New Zealand comedian, who is well-known to vaudevflle patrons, has gone over to Australia to try his luck. Bob should catch on with the Australian -theatre-goers as a variety artist who can always bo relied, on to draw. "Truth" wishe» Bob all sorts of good luck., *** . ' Coming to New Zealand for a holiday spell shortly is Mr G-. L. Goodman^ J.C.W.'s popular general manager.. •'Goody" has been off color lor some time now, and reckons a spell m the Thermal district will make a new man of him. Mrs "Goody" will also be on hand.; \^y ■■. • • Mrs Mixner; the pianist at His Maiesty's Theatre, had the misfortune to injure her ankle on Sunday la^t, but despite :the excruciating- pain arid! inconvenience, the lady did not fail tire Royal picture syndicate, but charmed the vpa*s and hearts of the theatre patrons by her . musical items, as usual during the week. * • » Cop. McGregor, of Mount Cook police station, had a very unpleasant time on election night while arresting a rowdy gentleman, and was so severely 'handled that he had to be tawen to the. Hospital, and had not regained consciousness -on Wednesday morning. He is still an inmate of the institution, and his injuries are very serious. *■ « « Miss Nellie Power, the vivacious New; Zealand soubrette, who made such a. popular hit .whilst on the Fuller circuit, fhas taken her little .dainty self over ta Sydney, where she will shake her frills and flounces and smilingly captn vate. the bald-headed row of Sydneysid.ers who patronise vaudeville shows of the 'Arbor city. Nellie is above tho Ordinary serio, and should knock 'em : har3 m Australia. . . * • ■ Ivy Salvin's marriage did not occur Jn--1 Sydney last Friday week as projected.Perhaps Alic& thought he was too young to marry, or hadn't his trousseau ready* Aor maybe Ivy tnought it rash to marry, m haste and vegetate among the blasts of the pigs, while the^stage was m need \ Of her. ivy made her Melbourne debuH t'other a%ht m "S>he Stoops to Coni [ q«er/' with the Mclntosh-Beatty Com-i L pany. Jtony.y Atholwood also made his . bow; m the same historic drama.. The potent power of the putrid dally press Was fittingly exemplified m the 1 case of the Wairarapa electorate, when; 1 Mr W. C. Buchanan, who had the cqm-f '< bined press of the district against him,, ■ succeeded m securing a handsome victory over Mr J. T. *M. Hornsby, the retiring member. As pointed out byj "Truth" some time ago, when the "Wai- • rarapa Daily Times" decided to espouse ■ Mr Hornsby, this proved to be the sure 'i sign of Hornsby's downfall, as, whenever | Jimmy Payten's putrid "Times" barracks for anything, it is certainly doomed to. failure, ' * ' Christchurch prohibs. are not particular what sort of company .they keep. Th« principal speaker at a No-license, meeting m His Majesty's Theatre, Sunday last, wgs elderly Dr. Russell, who appealed to the mostly female audience to strike out the top line; -"for the children's sake/*Seeing that the aged medico has already served five years out of a sentence of sev* en years for abortion, arid was arrested after his liberation on a similar charge (the girl dying with her mouth closeel), , the ex-convict's appeal possesses the quality of grim humor. .TUe greatest enemy to chikMife is the abortionist, and although this paper dislikes raking up the evil past, the hypocrisy of the whole thing makes the ordinary thinking person sick. When a man with Russell's past is applauded by a hysterical crowd of faddists, it is time /to investigate the No* license mania with considerable suspicion * * * Sir Jospeh Ward, the P.remier of New Zealand, and consequently the first man of the "Dominion" has shown the carp-* ing, critical coots who misrule the N.Z, R.U. that they are veritable mosquitoes. The coots tabooed the Wallace testimonial with great asperity and drag.^ed ; m innuendoes regarding professionalism. , By his contribution of £2 2s to the fund the Premier has shown that he lias a , mind above the pettifoggers of the wttstv \ mismanagement committee, who r.^c^Me a flea m a corner which considers i!s I corner the world and itself the r -lei: ; thereof. Several members of thu mismanagement committee, who would nob soil their souls by contributing lt» tho fund, have given it out that they intend to make Wallace a present on the occasion of his marriage. As this will '" not take place m the immediate future, the skinflints will be able to save their halfpence, or perhaps they may snavc-1 a bonus or two and deduct 1 per cent, as a contribution to the famous back?