Ladies and Gentlemen AND OTHERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 299, 18 March 1911, Page 1

Ladies and Gentlemen AND OTHERS.

Another Australian- politician is on a visit to New Zealand. The politician m question is the Hon. W. JF. Whiteley, of Tasmania.; * •_..•,.' ...» „..' ;■:.. ,-. .• .;." . Holidaying just at present at. Rotorua - are Sub-Inspector McGrath, of Christchurch, and Mrs McGrath. Wellington's j ex-chief-detective was m Wellington re- ■■■ cently, passing through on . his way to the thermal regions. The sub. well fills his uniform. His official career m Christchurch has apparently agreed with-him. • • •- Grace Palotta, according • to Sydney : "Cat Chat," is returning to Vienna to take a well-earned rest. She deserves it. Grace is picturesque, and her dresses are dreams, but her voice is frayed at the edges, aad as harsh as a nutmeg grater. It. isn't the voice tha.t charmed us m "Tact," tact, tact." It wants tne restcure badly. • y • • • The Coronation rush still continues. Latest to leave is Charles Izard and his wife. "Truth" -wonj ders if C.H.I, has any political ambition left. Of course, between the Coronation and elections there is ' plenty of time, but Wellington } South is not the South.it was a ew years back. . . . ..;■ I' ... » * • *■- ' Lady Islington and her companion, Miss Stapleton Cotton, are" now under canvas m camp twelve rhiles from Rotorua. • The lady and-i her companion are awaiting, the reopening ■ of Government House, [Auckland. Incidentally, this is exceedingly sand-paper like on Wellington. " • Apparently there is- to be no opposition td Tom Wilford as. Mayor for the ensuing twelve months. Anyhow, it .would require a man with the force and velocity of dynamite to shift, the present May or.. , Tom was taken on trust, and he has proved quite up to date, and could hardly be improved upon. There is, further, no reason why Mayor . Wilford. like his predecessors, should not have ..a ! third -term: . ... An English newspaper' makes mention that the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour can 1 walk along London streets and be unnoticed. It also refers to the fact that- the Prime Minister of England rides m a third-ciass underground railway train. Things are done quite differently here m New Zealand. If any of our Ministers travel on a railway, a special car is ordered. •*.•. . • ■ . Banker J. N. Brown, 'manager of the National Bank of N.JS. at North Dunedin, retired last week • after 4^7 years practice at handling current coin- and overdrafts. At a- "farewell" m the • Waratah Tea Rooms, M.P. James Allen, on behalf of the -clients of the bank, • presented the veteran • banker with a gold' sovereign case for himself and ladies' dressing-case for Miss Brown, and told him how the aforesaid clients had appreciated his courtesy and financial advice. • . • . • Canterbury's Government Analyst, A. A. Bickerton, is a woolly-looking imliv.idual who , would scare a timid person onsight. He knows a lot, however, does Bickerton, who, when giving evidence m the Jack-Sadler-"Mystery Lane." case at Christchurch, called alcohol a poison. "Don't call it that," sai'" Crown Prosecutor Stringer, "or you . »11 offend a lot of pcopte, say no other poison except traces of alcohol." Bicky smiled a scientific smile. "Very well," he agreed, "but it is less correct." One has to be i careful m these itoys of No-Ucenße. I

Lord Denman, who is "to Vie Lord Dudley's successor as .Governor-Gene-ral of the Australian Commonwealth, is Deputy-Speaker to the House of Lords, and arLofd-in- Wai ting . ,to the King. He is 37 years old, and is married to the eldest daughter of Lord Cowclray. (Aristocratic name, Cowdray— miles abovo bullock-waggon.) The Denmans have a family of two, one son and a daughter. *« • ■ John Fuller, senr./ is seldom seen m Wellington now-a-days, and the city felt duly honored when the old man visited it the other day, only to return to Auckland on, Thursday. Full of business as of yore', John, senr., has little spare time to waste on interviewers. Pictures and vaudeville . keep all the Fullers on the active list nowl Indeed, there isn't a town m New Zealand, now that hasn't; got. a picture show m it, and b,et your last dollar th© films are supplied by the Fullers. ' • ' * « . . Daily papers during the week announced the movements of some exGovernmeht Houde people. R. KerrGlark and the Lady; Beatrice sailed for England by the Moldavia, which left Auckland -on Wednesday -* last. Captain Maitland, an ex-A.D.C. to Governor Islington, has also booked his passage . for .England,, and was due to leave these shores yesterday; (Friday). . Society is still asking* why all these, people left the Islington household. •■ '. f . - • . v^ ": ♦ * • Lady Stout, .the .wife;. of our Chief Justice, is a prominent figure m the ranks of the suffering Suffragettes m the Old. Land, and one is not likely to be overcome on hearing that it is» ■ Ljady , Stout's intention, to' enter' upon a lecturing tour. Her activities, we learn, are divided between the r work of the Women's Social and Political Union and other "votes for women" bodies, and the British Women's Temperance Association. Why Lady Stout.' doesn't rejoin hep better-half m Wellington is what lots of people are asking. Anyhow, as far as the .Woman's Political Association is concerned, it is interesting to know that Bcitish politician 'Winston Churchill, during the . Week, referred to it as "that copious fountain, of mendacity." Come home; Lady Stout, come home ! • * « Ex-Senator J. C. Neild, politician and civilian soldier, died at his residence, al< Woollahra, Sydney, last week, aged &8. Neild was chiefly known to fame as a. great taltoer, owing to his' delivering tho record speech of the N.S.W. Parliament, •It was during a motion for adjournment, when Sir Henry - Parkes was Premier, that NcMd gave a stonewalling speech of nine hours' duration, which ever afterwards won him the distinction ol "Jawbone." Deceased was the son of a Bristol doctor, and came out to New Zealand m 1853. In 1800 he arrived m Sydney, but remained unknown to public lifp till 1876, m which year he was. sleeted an alderman for Woollahra. In 1885 he was chosen to represent Paddington m the Assembly, and held that seat till 1894, when he was defeated by Mr Adrian Knox. Ten months later, however, he was again returned for Pa'UUne;ton, the .electorates having been divided. In 1901 Neild decided to enter Fc?er<l politics, and was elected as one "f Hia first six Senators sent by N r ew "-'o !i Wales. This seat he retained till 'v .■-.:• d his mates were ousted at last. H^cfi ;-.:•.. He was twice married, his first wff,; being a daughter of the Rev. P. P. Arrnew, and his second a daughter of Sheriff Uhr. A son and a daughter, by liis rocond marriage, survive him.