LADIES, GENTLEMEN

NZ Truth, Issue 377, 14 September 1912, Page 4

LADIES, GENTLEMEN

•AND OTHERS

The subordinates m Hon. James Allen's departments now refer to their ministerial head as . "Colonel" Allen. Are we becoming Americanised, or is it due to the wave of military enthusiasm? * * * The by-election for Egmont, rendered necessary by the resignation of "Tarn" Mackenzie upon his appointment as High Commissioner, will take place next Tuesday^ The candidates are C. A. Wilkinson (Government) and D. L. A. Astbury (Opposition). The former should have a "walk-over." • * a Mr E. Page, for many years chief steward on many of the Union Steam Ship Co.'s vessels trading m New Zealand waters, signed oft' the Mokoia at Wellington an Monday last, and v to-day joins the R.M.S. Aorangi on the 'Frisco run. Page's many friends amongst the travelling public will sorely miss him. ♦ » ■ » Among recent arrivals' m Cockney- j land from New Zealand is Mr Isaac ! Coates, formerly Mayor of Hamilton. Isaac has been telling a London interviewer that there is no place m the world equal to God's Own Country- Londoners have heard this once or twice before from New Zealand backblockers. ♦ * * ■ John Beveridge, mine host of the Grand Hotel, Wellington, has been elected President, of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers Association. The genial John,,' at last general elections, proved -himself to be so capable a general that Dominion delegates at a recent conference held m Wellington unanimously.placed him iipon the Presidential pedests.l and st^vc him a gold sovereign cause, presumably to be filled at the end of his term. ' .' • '. ' ♦.. ■ ' • '■' Ernest Alfred, Le Cren, ;whose, two trials m Wellington* »Supreme Court resulted 'm his, acquittal, has been fired /from the position of Inspector > under the Shops and Factories Act m Wellington. One Car-mc-dy lias been -moved; up one. After : his experience m the Supreme Court, Le 'Oreii. should: .try a ticket m "Tatts." His 'luck would win him anything. ■ ■' :'..<■ * ' '.'-. ..*'.'. ' ■• ■'' • r \. Arthur Alexander.- the pianist from ; Diihedin/ ,ha£ , just been awarded the 1 most" Coveted -prize-in the Academy, i the Ddre prize for' general excellence, assiduity, ')■> and industry, and has ' also recei\'ed!;^he ;Chappell gold medal for excellence- m piano playing. Thus' does New 'ZJonland holUtits own ; m the ;, Arts at Home and .abroad, for has:n.ot:the great honor of banging a; pia-no continuously for ilftysev<?ii,hours been won by a New Zea--1 angler ? — "Truth's"' London; correspondent. r : <', ?' Mr Hubert' Latham, whose death was recently caused by a buffalo charging him when hunting m the Congo Free" St^ejjjvvas quite,; a young man,, being barely 30 ye"ars* v of age I.'1 .' He- was of British extraction, born m Paris, and m July,. 1903,, made the first attempt to win the "Daily Mail" £1000 prize for flying across the Channel. Seven miles from the French coast the motor of his aeroplane failed, and he dropped into the sea. On a second attempt, a few days later, he flew to within a mile or so of Dover, and fell into the sea within sight of 40,000 people. Since then he has flown much on his "Antoinette" monoplane. ■•..• . . . • Sir James Reckitt, who has subscribed £ 5000 to' tho " General Booth | Memorial Fund, is now m the 80th year I of his age, and owes his baronetcy to 1 his loyal support of Mr W. E. Glatf--1 stone, who conferred it on him when Prime Minister m 1834. He is a son of the late Isaac Reckitt, who founded the firm of Reckitt and Sons, of which firm Sir James is now chairman, as well as of the Wollaton Colliery Company and the Eastern Morning News Company, besides being president of ; the Hull United Liberal Club. He is j I a Deputy Lieutenant and a County Al- I derman. His seat is at Swanland Manor, Brough, East Yorkshire. • Sir j James's eldest son and heir, Harold James Reckitt, was formerly an M.P. Evidently the old man has some hoodie to splash round, and, if he is not exactly blue-blooded, his money was made out of blue. * • ♦ A brave young 1 Maori was rewarded with a Koyal Humane Society's ! ; medal nt Napier recently, the Mayor J jdiscribin? the recipient, Tftwhai Kara, thus : — "You are a credit to the Maori race nml an example for white boys to follow." On .January '2-\ last, some lads wero bath ng m the Tutaekuri river, when J'Jric i.l ones, one of the boys was swept j j into deep water and placed m great 'danger. Tawhai Kura, who was j fishing close al hand, heard the; I alarm given by tho bathers, sprang! j into tho stream, and brought the j drowning lad to tho bonk m an uni conscious condition,. Kara immed- ! iately applied tho Schaofer method lof restoring nnimntion, with successful results. Shortly afterwards Kara had shown tho , same brave spirit m stopping a horse attached to a cab. which bolted m Emersonstroot, Napier. The lad first attempted to catch tho horse, but, being unsuccessful, ho jumped on the cab,, and, gnasping tho reins, pulled tho runaway up before, further damage resulted. ♦ • * Tho Ilov. James Kennedy KlUott, tt.A., of Kent-torraco Presbyterian Church, Wellington, has been nominated by tho Oamaru Presbytery for j tho Moderatorship of the Presbyter- : ian Assembly of New Zealand. Mr iKlliott, who is one of the most kindly-disposed old gentlemen, and very far removed from the pernicious influences of Wowserdom, was born at Uolfast, Ireland, and is a graduate of tho Koyal University of Ireland. Ho was ordained on Deccmjber 10, 1H72, had congregations successively at a village near lielfust, at Hundalstown, and at Miigherai felt, and came to New '/.ealnml m | |.18s-j. He was first m charge of St. • James's, Newt own, hut rcKig-ned and commenced preaching at iho Lyceum iin IHM, establishing n Sunday 'school m Mount Cook Infants', school. His present, chnrgo wn.s de- ; iKcnled and ol>cnod on September! :'J7, ihs'k, nnd ho was inducted on j : October r. of that. year. Air \-'A~ \ liott's appointment ns Moderator of j Ihe Assembly would be generally welcomed m Presbyterian circles.