LADIES, GENTLEMEN! AND OTHERS

NZ Truth, Issue 406, 5 April 1913, Page 4

LADIES, GENTLEMEN! AND OTHERS

Ben J. Fuller, managing director of the Breunan-Fuller circuit, is oS to America. Ben's visit to the States is m connection with' vaudeville affairs. Accordingly, "the earth "^ should profit m the future. * • • Mr. J. A. Jull, of the Soutbbridga railway staff, who has just been appointed telegraphist at the Christ* church railway station, was presented with a shaving outfit and a silvermounted pipe by his colleagues on the eve of his transfer and promotion. , • • a Mr. John Held, who has for the past couple of years been second clerk m the Christchurch S.M.'a Court, has just been appointed Magistrate's Clerk, Clerk . of thß Warden's Courts and Receiver of j Gold Revenue at Clyde andjQtfm* well, m both of which distric^^^e will m future carry out his tS^Hal _, duties m the respective positions named. Mr. Keid, who is but a young man, is a man of promise and of a studious disposition. He has already qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. ' • '.♦...* Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., who was laid up for three months consequent upon a serious operation, resinned his scat on the bench at Cbristchurch. on Thursday of. last week, when, curiously enough, there was not a, single solicitor present, otherwise his Worship would have been felicitated on his restoration to health. Mr. ; Bishop, who has had forty years m . the Public Service, is the-; senior '■ magistrate of the Dominion, Mr, Kettle, S.M., who comes next, being seven years his junior, although actually an older man. This is the ono and only occasion on which Mr. Bishop has* been absent from duty on sick lejwe throughout his long and honorable career. ' • . . • ' * ■. Police Offences Act delinquents at Christchurch now # have the worst side of their cases presented to the bench by a big, burly/ good-humored Scotsman bearing the rank and designation of Sub-Inspector William Hector MacKinnon, a native of the Isle of Sky e (Scotland), where he first saw the light m 1861. He Arrived at Lyttelton with his parents m 1870, Joining the police m 1879, he resigned m 1830, but re-Joined m 1881; He served m Tiniaro with the present Commissioner (then sergeant) Cullen. Next, m order, he served at Ross, Westport, Lyle, Upper Hutt, Wellington (where, f«r several years, he was wa teahouse keeper), Auckland (with the rank of sergeant), Kowton, wniht. and, as Senior-Sergeant, again at Auckland, lie was* appointed Sub-Jnspector m Februnry last and sent to Christchurch, where he took up his present I -duties on March 2. As a prosecuting officer, he te- fairness personified. i ■ • i ' .; . • ■•■.'• * | Despite Bill Massoy's assertion that Cabinet has not considered the appointment of an- Arbitration Court Judge, m succession to Mr. Justice Sim,' in fact, despite th* political denial of any change, rumor bv.U hua it that Mr. Justice Sim has tired of the thankless task of deciding between Capital «nd Labor, and that Lawyer Hoskings, K.C., hns first refusal of the Job. Keniarkuble how it comes about that Hoskinjis, K.t'-. is I mentioned. He wns before Chief Jus--1 tice Stout ns defending counsel In 1 the Trust prosecutions, appearing for tho Colonial Sugar Co. After that, Hoskings, K.C., who, it is snid, looked very favorably on AttorneyGeneral Ilcrdman, and got a friendly look, m return, was appointed a sort of Commissioner to inquire into Public Trust matters. Now, it Is given out thnt IToskinps. X.C.. is to become the Arbitration Court Judpo. Of course, it Ik denied. These sort of things ptnsrally are. but it invariably happens that when Humor pets busy on Juiigefihips nnd other jobs, the old dame isn't far wron<j. The question, however, m. what is to become of Mr. Justice Sim? la ho going to t\rnp the Arbitration Court uivl atun:l strictly to tho Supreme Court bench ? Once nga»» l , "Truth" pauses for n reply. -'* • • Hobert McNab, nn ex-Minister of Uuhlb, untl who failed lo got back into Xuvv Zealand poetics last elections, has. this «cA, b*en busy denying v j,iutenu»ni, enioimtinj; from Ounedm, which indirect ly tutserts ■that Hobby is shortly going to Scotland to make, himself conversant with British politic*, nnd to take up the running m the Scottish constituency of Stirlings-hire. at present represented by Dr. Chappie. The circumstantial statement circulated >» that Chappie, though an exceedingly rtch nmu, all of his wealth ia-im? piled up for him by successful New Zealand speculation, lias foun;l poiitics iv the Cold Country too treat a. draw on his resources, t.p to dnu\Irrespective, of his contributions tcf. the. party funds, ih»? h«>«or of Ihmuk v llrtiish legislator has com Imn iirooo, nnl, bctnK jc<urioticMUy Scotch, l»r. Chapplo kick*. He, with .WON"", arc n.s-ofiateii iv many interest!} m New Zealand, nml lh<» point of the matter •«» that hobby McNftb will- succeed (h.ipplv is M.l', for Stirlingshire, ami Chupplf. who w;\h n i.ilufal AJ.P. for a southern constituency for » few month**, will return U> lit* Dominion. Whether then? is Anything n> ib* Mory. «n;l -VlcNitb >»ay* itu're \* nut. It. Oi«i>pie would make a typical Fat man's repn*<?ntntlvo In rarlininent. A* for Hobby McNftb. Ni".v Y.vaUuu\ nhmiid hnve ttvnU'd Mm umeh t«cti*?r. lt« ',* an in»oiv*«iinn ntsthnnty mi Sow •/»•«! st nd't* h',Mf>r\ . »n<l Juki now is iMiKy on a i»'MV hnok denlinp w;tb tho c<»!«ny*s ft-.uijettttion, «'f., «*fr.