PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 198, 3 April 1909, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

;. iftVW." 'J7_ Buckle, of the.' Wellington Magistrate's "Court, is at .present on relieving: duty at Blenheim. •'* ■ • Constable McCrorie, of Papanui^ has?. been promoted to the rank of Sergeant, >and,wili be stationed at Wellington, vice., Sergt. Baskerville, ' who goes to /Devon-*' port, Auckland's tony suburb.;. : 'Joe McMahon, .of moving picture- fame, blew into Wellington oh Wednesday from Auckland. What's his game anyhow ? Is he after capturing the Town Hall foe Sunday services? If so, Rev. Jv J^. North had better keep an eye on him. • • ' ...»■. r A' police promotion, that doesn't read?---:well is the making of a full-blown "demon" of alleged finger-print expert Quartermain. Practically a protege of the Commissioner's this young man is;, .bound to succeed as long as, Dinnie remains Commissioner, while other- men with records of faithful', and-. smart- ser-. vice, are kept. in the rear. . ' " '" "■ > From;Taihape comes- news*-of -thejaeattt, at the age of 39 yeaTS> of .Francis Henry Gibbons, eldest son oi the . late Samuel Gibbons, of Marton. Dpceasted had, for a number of years, been licensee of the Gretna /Green Hotel at Taihape. He was ever a popular man, and one w&o ever- : displayed a deep interest m local affairs.y Men of his stamp, are few in -the com-, nrunity, and his death^is to be-dep2oied. '■ .. ,' *• • ■'•'*...'. * ■ •Paddy CHRegan v has no-; * time,. Jiar . the .. t Dreadnt<Qght ; craze, and^. wiiea asfced Tiis opinion^ " giave it tersely as follows'^— "My sympathies are not with the Dread—, ;uough.ts, tut with fhe tßreadnoughts-' " The workers of New Zealand little know '-to wtiat extent they are indebted to P*J... O'Reganj ; who. was the means of getsing some valuable clauses included in-the Workers' Compensa-tioni-Act^of last-ses-; sion^ ■ . , •'• . " Mbst of *tlie New" Zeatend^d'elegates. to> ! Hre Imperial Press Conference m: liondScm. are now busy packing their ports. LastMonday Messrs Brett, of Auckland, and • George. iPenwick, of Dtthedin, accompanied" by their wives, left for ;; Sydney,, where the "journalists" meet, ere they go to England, via Vancouver. AVhat this< paper canlt get .over is "why ,it wasn't asked to send a delegate. Our -man would be sure to say something worth hearing. Anyhow, we*xe not the only sinner out .of. hell. The "Dominiott" ,wasn't ; - asked. ! "vSii? "■William... McGregor.^,;who*has been^ appointed '■Governor of •Queensland, was,..torOa time, ' Governor of New Guinea,, ■and" made himself particularly obnoxious ; to the minerd, parttculaxly at the Matu-./ bari rusE arid Musa Rivers rush. It was the general opinion that there would ber no chance for prospectors -so long" as ,Sir.-; Wmv McGregor was Governor, and they ; Were "greatly pleased when he was. suc-^ ceedpa by Le-Hunte, who afterwards was Governor of South Australia, and is now? at Trinidad. Sir Wm. McGregor is so^ used to governing black and colored peoples that- it is scarcely probable t,that J he will give satisfaction m Queensland, 1 which. ' is#noV-'-a Awhite«» manSsy country. ""..'■■. Inspector *Ellison«had'&tatber . a^Peculiar .the otner day. He -Was in-; 'vestigaiang certain matters, m■> at;suburb , •where there willbe no pubs after , June next, .and he called at the only pub. m the township for lunch. The landlord ■ evidently looked a promising sort of m- j dividual and the Inspector entered into' ; conversation, or endeavored to dp so, , when -he was. staggered by the 1 remark, ., •"Yon J d?»cut>a. Tiole m a stone -wail." Instead of getting angry, as most jmen^ in-, his position would, and demanding "Do yon know Who 1 am, sir !" Mr JtSllison, •merely smileds-and' asked, -"How's iVthat ?" The Boniface, .who, of course, didn't know his man, replied, with emphasis, "Why, you've got a fclanky face as hard and sharp as: a tomahawk." When the publican; was^subseq-ueiitry „informed..as to the identity *>f his visitor, , his language' was an education. • ' • • Mr.sV. B.v-'J.- ..-Lesina, . MJLVAVifor Clermonf,. Central Queensland, left Wellington last Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs, Besina, for Auckland, where, after spending a lew days, the pair will return to Queensland.. Joe's mission m New Zealand, has tteen .to gather information on 'industrial matters and the eternal liquor question, and, judging by the dimension of J-oe's port, be has gathered enough data to make a decent-sized library. Joe's reports will be interesting, and "Truth" will awaiij; "with interest, the opinion of this brainy 'legislator. Thereri'll be no shallowness or humbug 1 about 'em and New Zealanders can rely on the truth and the whole truth being told. Mrs Lesina's ■ holiday m New Zealand has, unhappily, been marred by the lady's indisposifiori". Anyhow, after New Zealand's none too consistent climate, the warmth of Queensland ought\to have a bene t ficial effect. « • • • Br. Goode's acquittal evidtences the .fact that the sawbone6 fraternity stick to one another m time of trouble. There can be no doubt that tJie homicidal medico was insane when he pulled the trigger that sent Mrs Kijlenncr ' into eternity, but it merely leads one to reflect upon the number of poor devils despatched by Tom Long who were equally mad, but who were not doctors, and didn't have the spondalix to pay for medical testimony on their behalf. Ellis, alias McKcnzie, whoso smouldering mania led him to slioot his persecutor, Collinson, at Te Awaite statton, Worth Island, was undoubtedly a lunatic on that particular subject, yet he kicked the beam and tested & strong piece of hemp •m Wellington gaol.^ When one comes to think of it, there is something abnormal about any person who kills another person, and if he hasn't got influential Iricuds to put forward the 'bjrain storm" theory he is meat fot .the hangman.

Mr. Gresley Lukin, editor ol the ".Even* ing Post." -leaves Auckland on April' l4 for Suva where he. will connect with the Vancouver mailboat, on board ol which will be all the Australasian delegates to the Imperial Press Conference m London. Cardinal Mbran, the head of the Rot ?man Catholic Church m Australia, ati ■taineditne 25th anniversary of his appointment to Sydney on March 20. He was consecrated Bishop of Ossary m 1-872, and ;> 1874 succeeded to that See. He tu&s appointed Archbishop, of Sydney on March 21, 1884, and arrived there m the September following. Only •a year afterwards Cardinal Moran was recalled to Rome, and received the Car-r •dlnal's hat-: Charlie Cutts, so well known m Wel-« lington as a dog fancier, particularly as ,a breeder of bull-dogs, left by Friday's iboat for Sydney, en route for England., He expects to be v away some six or eight months, and expects to return wittt -some of the best stud aiui show dogs procurable m the Old Dart, Mr J. /Wj Thomson, also interested m the dog EWorld, is accompanying Mr Cutts on his tour. "Truth" joins numerous friends m wishing them a good time. •Visiting New Zealand to inquire into Che Dominion's land laws* particularly m their auplication to closer settlement, is the Hon. H: JVlcKenzie, Minister o£ 'Lands m Victoria, which name, of course, prompts i the inquiry how many more McKenzies are there m this world who are not Ministers of the Crown. Anyhow, the visiting Mac. ought to learn something from our own Macs., and, anyhow, with due respect, "Truth" asks if the visiting Mac. isn't the same Mc&enzie who, when a Minister m a Bent Administration some years back, resigned his •office because of a land scandal m Victoria. Victorian statesmen , and land and other scandals seems to be a ' pernicious habit that can't be checked. • • ♦ Died: at Levin recently m his seventy^ >:sixth year,, t>ames Darragh, an old pioneer. (Deceased >was born at 'Liverpool what time the gold fever was at its and" arrived m Australia m the fifties," highest. He spent some years on tha ■ Ballarat gold diggings, being amongst., the first on the field when the licenses^ were issued m September, 1851. Mr * Datfagh had .experiences of the riots, and the hostility between the miners which culminated m almost civil war at the siege' of the Eureka Stockade, inDecem-" ber, 1854. .Subseqiaently Mr Darragh went to Sydney, but m 1859 he toolc ship for Dunedin, arriving there at a. time- when the site of the provincial city; ,was mainly native bush and flax swampy one of the early settlers the deceased •saw Dunedin grow around, the place to ■its '••present .-proportions. , * • ♦ « Tommy Burns, : .the;j?ug.,:.apparently*iSK a good Holy Roman, , as .he was recently,' ■asked to show m Brisbane the week; 'prior to Easter Monday. ."No," said*. Tommy, with, unction, "I never show' m holy week." Tommy might be a good I *. Catholic, but he ought not to advertise-" it so much. The man who < booms Ms re- ■ ligibn cuts no ice m sporting circles, and' is regarded as. a humbug. "Tahmy" is? a 'cute 'un all the same, and is apparenrly making big money. He wants to; come to New Zealand pn..his own, andhas asked for vacant, dates m ' our thea-? tres.' "Tahmy" ought, however, to be.i made aware of the fact that much asNew Zealanders want to see him m action, New Zealanders haTen'fr a say inthe matter. He's a like a sort of prohibited -immigrant, and must Teceive \permission from the various Boxing Asso-"j ciations ere he lands or attempts to show. Please Messieurs of the Boxing Associations let "Tahmy" come. ■.■■'*. - • • ■ " ■ Minister for Customs -Hogg' is aboufl, as great a shuffler as any onev in* ' this j ■'Dominion. In referring .to ."the man] Baldwin" ?Hogg told the daily press re-! porters that his predecessor had con-' sistently refused permission to Baldwin \ to land m New Zealand for two years^ as he' was likely -to become a burden on the State. What Hogg did not tell the reporters was that Baldwin was a crip* pie before he left Mew Zealand, and that almost the first day .he arrived inj London he became an inmate of \thol Hackney Union, as, being /without a'; penny he was destitute and remained as inmate a burden to the Hackney ratepayers for two years. Hogg, who professes to be a Socialist, does not ap*« prove iof immigirants "being sent to : New Zealand .who arc likely to become { a burden to the Statc^. but he has no ) objection to New Z'eaiand derelicts be-J ing sent to England. Baldwin had been' thirty-two . years m this Dominion, dur- X ing which time he had contributed to \ Hogg's salary as a professional. poli->j tician. It is a poor compliment that/ Hogg pays the police force when he states that Baldwin's relatives cannot be located. "Truth" published the address of three of Baldwin's relatives, but "Hogg, of" . course, never reads "Truth" because, like many other notoriety seekers, he realises that the truth about oneself is not always pleasant. By the way, as Hogg has forbade the shipping company to allow Haldwin to ■'land,-" what is lie going to do m the Imattcr ? is he going to demand the £100- fine ? : "Truth" thinks not, but that Alexander \V. Hogg, having successfully bluffed the daily press and shuttled out-" of a hole, will a'«ow the matter to lie- Anyhow, Baldwin is here and will ha^e to be looked after by the State, no matter how .Ministers may try to evade tfiiii" responsibilities. ' "Truth" hero 'mentions .that Hogg, the ailcged Socialist, professional politician, and Minister of the Crown, is one or the Ministers who unanimously supported the frittering away of two millions ol the ' public's money as a gift to .England,