PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 216, 14 August 1909, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Lady Treloar, the wife of Mr William ' j Treloar, a former Lord Mayor of Lonj don, whose death was recently announi ced, was sister-in-law to Mr T. Treloar, ' ex-editor of the '"Westiport News." j Sir Joseph Ward (is expected back m ! Wellington about October 4. That is. if the faaronetcy Ims will have m his frag is not too heavy to carry, and also if "Demon" Jack Cassells has warned off possible assassins. "' *'• » ' ! Mr John Farrell, touring manager for j the Nellie Stewart Company, is a brother to Tommy Farrell, Bert Royle's popular assistant at the Opera House. Mr J.P. was here recently m advance of Miss Ada Crossley. • • m Mr A. McMinn, the Wairarapa .journalist, who was recently laid up with a serious illness, is now on a holiday vis- 1 it to Palmerston North. There is a great improvement m his health. The .McMinn takes a lot of knocking out. -* ♦ • ; George Bernard Shaw, the Socialistic author and playwright, who makes a hobby of being rude to silly duchesses who lionise him, has made a public appearance m connection with the Labor protest against any official reception of the Czar on his forthcoming visit to Great Britain. - ' »' • • ' Mr John Norton, MJL.A., conductor and proprietor of "N.Z. Truths," left Wellington for Christchurch on Wednesday evening last. While m Christchurch Mr Norton will appear m person and conduct the appeal m the case Stringer v. Norton, which was set down for hearing yesterday (Friday). * » <• All the way from Hamburg comes news of the demise of W. Dittmer, a German , artist,, who.. spenkA couple -of, .years- ,*iti^ New Zealand studying the Maori as subjects for his brush and canvas. Dittrr.er iived principally m Wanganui and Taupo. At the time of his death he was engaged on a series of views of the port of Hamburg, which he was commissioned to do by the German Government. V * ■ The Englishman who stands the greatest risk m connection with the Czar's English visit is his cousin, the Prince of Wales, who might be his twin brother, so alike are they m form and feature. If Wales is wise, he will summon his varlet, otherwise his barber, to relieve his countenance of all its hairsuite trimming's, so as to destroy the dangerous likeness ere young Nick departed * • • The Bishop of. London says that there' has been no time within the last twenty years m which the morals of Oxford and Cambridge were sounder. If the statement is true, the mystery may lie -m the possibility that m these days of abnormal precocity, the young bloods of England sow all their wild oats m their early teens, and are blase and de-' bilitated by the time they reach the higher seats of learning. ** • . That Napoleonic-like person, Tommy Noah-Brusso-Burns, struck New Zealand shores last Sunday from Australia. So far it- has been nothing but press interviews and receptions by Boxing Associations. "Tahmy's" show, piloted by the prosperous-looking Martin Taylor, was a dismal failure, at anyrate m Wellington. "Tahmy's" intentions just now seem to be to settle down m Sydney, though he prophecises .that he will be champion again m a couple of years. No, he won't fight Jeff. A dramatic story of the past was revived by the death of Walter Huelin, a night watchman recently drowned m Melbourne. " Huelin was a witness of the Carey-O'Donnell tragedy, which occurred at Capetown on board the ship Melrose, m 1883. Carey was the informer m the Phoenix Park murder case. The two sat down to play cards m the Torecabin, and Carey made a remark hinting that he I knew O'Donnell. Immediately both rose I and drew revolvers, but O'Donncll lired 1 first and Carey was killed. ! - « - ; How we Socialists love one another : Listen to H. G. Wells on his mates m ! the movement : Grayson "will never be i anything but a nuisance to his own ' side." Blatchford is "touchily vain and i excitable — a shy, obscure man, overj praised for his valiant roaring." OHynd- ! man and Quelch are animated by "a ! strong ingredient of spite, the proverbial spite of the impotent." Shaw is "a perverse eccentric, a gross sentimentalist ■m cynic's motley, adorable as a friend, 1 hopelessly tiresome as an associate." , T,he Grayson-Blatchford-Hyndman-Quelch- '•. Shaw opinion of Wells is perhaps sntn- ' mcd up m the words of Grayson, who I has described him as "an egotistic ! pedant of middle-class mind." « • ■• ! Miss Jennie Pollock, of the Bland Holt Co., has only been on the staa,e six •: years, and the whole of the time with v, I Bland Holt Co., with one slisrht break, j while the actor-manager was on a trip ; abroad. Miss Pollock was a clever aitia- ; teur m Auckland, and is the possessor lof many medals for elocution. When twelve years of age she was a frequent I contributor at entertainments, and at this j carlv age shownd much aptitude for her ! future profession. She admits havine; ; l;epn stage-struck, and believes that most ' girls at one time or another become im- : irned. with a craving for the stnse. At the Auckland Exhibition she won a gold i j medal. She possesses a fine figure and I excellent presence — a great aid to ber I • success. She commenced with Mr Holt i :as "walker on," but rose rapidly, until j j now she is one of the principals, while ! she has on more than one occasion took j jup the leading; role with success. Shfi j ! confesses that her favorite part is the j i heroine m "The Flood Tide," m which | .she wears a■• succession of pretty i dresses, which perhaps naturally appeals j i to a woman.; >•,

"Truth" heartily congratulates geniar . Sub-Inspector Norwood en the Reiitlemaxi- - ly way he conducts his -cases he-ore the "Iron Duke." The Sub. has none of the bully and bounce customary with most police prosecutors, and always lights a clean scrap. ; Mr P. J. Amodeo, of the Wellington : S.M.s Court clerical staff and footballer : of the Old Boys' breed, has been shifted on to Christchurch. "Truth" wishes the young man well. Who knows but that he may some day m the dim future be a full-blown beak. The two champicn voices of Beak Rid- • dell's Court are Big Chief Broberg's and Orderly Jones. The Chief Tec's^ is a booming bass, which shakes the furniture, . and the orderly's is a high-pitched barii tone. The Beak comes a good third with „ a clear, cutting , even tone of - middle t pitch. i«_ • - Jimmy Trewin, Mayor of Feilding, and Six-and eightpenny man, blew into Wel- , Mngton t'other day to sen into a small ' matte Yin connection with the nobile pur- -, suit of "Costs." The disagreement was . over a book called "The family Law-* ; yer," and happened m the Supremo ; Court. ... >•• ■ ' The Actii'g-Premier, Hon. Jas. Oarrollj' who was a visitor to Christchurch dur- : ing the week, and incidentally saw the • Grand National Steeple on Tuesday, re^ r turned to Wellington by the Pateena on " Thursday morning, and left again that - evening for Gisborne. The Hon. James • is leading, just now, quite the strenuous 5 life. • • ■ • . ■ ' Deceased Magistrate A. Turnhull was • land registrar at Nelson m 1877, and 3 subsequently entered.. lihe_.l^nd&«Regialir jr. _, /'Office m Wellington. '"Next he became - : Registrar of the Supreme Court at Welson, and then S.M. Tributes of respect ', were paid to the deceased Magistrate at • the New ' Plj'mouth S.M.s Court on „ Tuesday last. V W • A well-known Wanganui identity m tie person of Mr Chas. Jeffcott passed away '. early this week m the local hospital. I "Jeff," who was 77 years of age. was an old army veteran. He landed m 1 New Zealand m 1861 with the 57th ; Regiment, with vjich he had pr^riously 1 served m Ireland, lonia, Crimea, Egypt \ and India. .Deceased, for his Crimea ser- . vices- received |a medal with Balaclava and Sebastapool clasps. He also possessed Turkish and New Zeaind medals. 3 Amongst the arrivals m Wellington [ from Sydney last Wednesday was Ruf dolph Unh'olz, matched .to box Tim Tracy r on August 18. , Unholz is nick-named . "The Boer," no doubt because he saw j service m the Transvaal War. Born, ! October 5, 1881, at Mannhiem on the : Rhine, Unholz is, therefore a German. > By naturalisation he is, however, a U.S.A. citizen. He doeen't speak with a twang and is modest m his manner, and has fought about 178 battles. He ought ' ■ to know something of the game. t . . * . • • ♦ : A" Western Australian paper chucks this . off its chest : — "Widow of ' Alfried Dam-. , pier draws, on an average £10 per week t from the dramatisation of "His Natural Life," bio. and stage. Mrs Marcus Clarke, widow of the brilliant but unfortunate progenitor of the book and play, battles along m her elderly life on , a miserable pittance." Mrs Alfred Damn pier would (doubtless smilte at this* if she were here, but she isn't, as she, Miss Rose Dampier, and Dampier, junior, ' ! shook the dust of Australia from their shoes some time ago. * . * • Probably the most costly game of cards on record was that m which the late George McCulloch, chairman of the Broken Hill Proprietary, was the loser.) . The famous Broken Hill silver mine, which has since yielded millions of pounds had just been discovered by a boundaryrider, and a S3 - ndicate of seven, of whom. McCulloch was one, was formed to work it. One day, McCulloch offered a share to a man for £200. Tne man offered £120, and they decided to play a game of euchre — the man if he won to get the share for £120, and McCulloch, if he won, to be paid £180. The man won and Sot the share for £120. Six weeks later the share was worth £125,000. Recently deceased Isaac Cooley, of Lower Hutt, lived under the reign of fire British sovereigns — Georges 111. and IV., William IV., Queen Victoria, and present King. He was born at Maidstoue, Kent, m 1819, and landed m. Wellington by the ship Olympus m 1841. For 08 years, Cooley had resided m the Hutt Valley, and never once had he ventured outsida Wellington heads. The Pctone "Chronicle" says of him : — When the war broke out with the Maoris, Mr Cooley and Mr Cudby, J.P. (who is still a Hutt resident), were comrades, and drove the commissariat waggon for a contractor (Mr W. B. Rhodes). This was exceedingly dangerous work, as they were liabJe 1o be attacked at any time. They preferred tiofc to avail themselves of military escorts, the pair considering they were sater by i themselves. The camp was situated at what is known as Boulcott's section, near the site of the present -Melting bridge. Here the soldiers were siulf'onHsurprised by the natives one morning m 1816, and several of the militia were killed, including the bugler (Allen), whoso heroic act m sounding the "call to ! arms" after he had his arm cut off by a i native will lit; for ev«'i; renif-mbrrcd by I New Zealander:;. Messrs Cudby and Conley were told oft to bury the" dead, and jto do so it was necessary ior them 1o I cross the river under greot ciifficuHies. j The bugle was carried away by tlm I Maoris, but it was '.' tcr recovered when i the soldiers successfully nttacked tiui j enemy at Waikanac, nnd' the instrument ••.was eventually sent lo England.