LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND OTHERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 508, 13 March 1915, Page 2

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND OTHERS.

America and Great Britain is the destination of Mr. J. G. Watson, former Labor Prime Minister pf the Commonwealth. As the proposed Labor daily, "The World," has postponed its publication till next September at -least, it has been concluded he is indulging m a little travel for. his health's sake. • ' •'■ ' •' ...H. H. Ostler, the gent who 'wears a horse-hair wig and gown,, and announces that he "appears for the Crown," is not going to. appear for the Crown j very muoh longer. shorty hie' lias resigned his 'istiddy t - job" >: as -Crown Prosecutor, and has «ntore.d into partnership wlth. ; a well-known Atiokland legal firm. Lawyer Ostler will be a valuable addition to the Auckland' "Costs" profession, and as he is a lawyer of great ability and experience H.H.O. m Auckland should soon be able to "make a pile." build up ft. big reputation, and m other ways do* well for himself, and those trusting people, "herelnbeforementioned" and hereinafterknown as; ejients., «.. .■>-. , . , '. ""#. *'"' "'■•'"■ A grand combination of elocutionary talent, took place m Wellington last week, when Mr. Sid. Tingey, fourth son of Mr. Rlohard Tingey, of P.. and E. Tingey and Co., took into matrimonial partnership, Miss Lulu Arnold, youngest daughter of Mr: E. Arnold, J.P., of the Empire City! * Sid is "wellknown m elocutionary circles, and has taken many., scalps at numerous competitions throughout ( New Zee. Miss Lulu Arnold is also a fine elocutionist. Sid landed many prises by hiß vocal efforts, but, by the "I will" recitation last week, he landed what he oonsiders the most preolous prize of all. "Truth" wishes them much happiness. Appr.opj^tely^eijpujjfh, _the vocal Mr. and Mrs. Tingey are spending the honeymoon at the "Sounds." ■ • : \. ■■. ' ' ■'•. : - -' ' *'. ■ ' '•- ■ Groymouth lost one of its old Identities the other, day,. when^lrs. Cather.-J me Warren, of'the Ten Mile, YefT\3reymo\Uh for .tho inevitable bourne. The old lady had passed the allotted span, being 72 years of age,' 40 yeArsdf. which she had spent with heir family "at 'their home on the North Beach." Many are the tales pioneers sach as Mrs. Wftrren can tell, for they were true pioneers— the ones who roughed and ondured. Not like the modern mart on tho land, who borrows money on the broad acres and sits at ' home' smoking while his "gang" do : 'thc pioneering with the axe and billhook m the seldom-ceasing rain. This «sturdy v old pioneer leaves a grownAip' family behind as an indication of what th"c 'true pioneers of the wild, wet, Wesf Coast are like. May they be true to their' protype. . " "'■ 'f;..V." •• ■■ :" .• ■ ' Wellington . is fortunate m that it possesses a demon of the astuteness and ability as that which characterises Detective Boddam. Whenever there is anything of importance doing at the seive. through which .the collared of "uncollared" crime m Wellington is put, 'Tec Boddam bobs, up and explains matters. Bod. Is generally looked upon as a white man In that, he is not always looking for alleged honors by securing convictions. whether the cirpumstancos warrant . it [ or, not. v ,W^rV thero. aro extenuating clccumstanceß m the case of .either .a first, or Demon Ppddaxn never falls to ijiake th}B matter plain to the gentleman who does the selving. If the circumstances warrant the charge being pushed home and tho accused being fired, Boddam is the gunner who will do it • • • A recent issue of the "War Cry" asks John Kelleher, If tho par meets his eye,, or anyone knowing his wheroabouts, to, communicate with Mary. E. Kellehor, Dixon-etrect, Masterton. "Truth" know the gonlal Jack ,when he left his homo In Walrarapd to take a trip with somo horses to S'Africa at tho time when lead and lydltte were moving very rapidly through the cloar air of the veldt. , Jack started toll as an express driver. Then ho took an Interest In horses of a finer and faster type. This brought Jack a lot of stuff you buy, pigs with., Thon come the S' African disturbance, and Jack was next soen on a transport taking a shipment of horses to the Cape. Subsequently he was. located In the Interior of an island known as Australia, which is, some distance off the coast of New Zealand. Slnoo th«n "Truth" has not soon him around the. office or m the composing room, but, if ho Is m Australia or SlAfrica this par Is sure to catch him right on tho line of vision. The humor of the thing is that the "W.C." has described him as r bootmaker. It was right to tho T—but the T was wrong. ., Still, Jack will know If he sees it. There are mahy charaoters m Maoriland, living 'way'baok far from the haunts of men, who have' taken their part In Lifo's scheme of things, and have hnrdly over been heard of. Kake, IK'q, native policeman of the Te Araroa district, which* is over 100 miles above GiEborne and is m the Bay of Plenty, is one of these. Kako has boon' on Ihe beat for many yoars, and hath brought many captives homo to Jug, whose ranBomcs did the general coffers nil. Years ago there wore many outlaws In tho. J Ngatlparou 'district, and some of them dosperato devils at that. On ono occasion Kake had to tako two gentlomen to Jail, und liud to do it In the night. H wds a very dark night so Kake tied their feet under the bellies of their hor«fl8. and pinned white' hankies on their backs. Ho clicked his "squirt" and drove tho two buccaneers of tho bush m front of him. Ho was responsible for th» capture of tho murderers of. tho Pool: family. He spotted the Impress of a boot whioh had oarried tho blood of his Victims to other parts of the shop whero they wore 1 murdered. • He put two and two togother, and from hla mathomatioftl roa- j sonlng hoeventually lobbed on a Maori whose boots had some nails mlnslng. Th« Maori afterwards missed something, too — his -life. Ho wab responaiblo for tho oapturo of Harry Matonga. who was "out" for many yearn. Kake (who m a half-caste) hits often sent m his resignation, but this 1r gonorally llrmly dlflcountenancod by a rl«e In walury and an appeal to reconsider Ills decision. Kake Is stationed at Tuparoa, hn» Nome nno buxom daughter*, nnrt m •about Rtt.- 4ln. pquaro. Many, a l>lg buck has trlod conclusions with Knke v ] much to the -buck's discomfort. If thoro In mort» than one. Kako usually "cuffa" on- to. tho other or clao to n fonce, while ho deals with th* remainder. Qovornmont owes a lot to Kako, who has bean a great factor m tho keoplnjr of lor'n'ordcr In <ho wild roifion ho Inhabits. If Kake did resign thoro would bo a dllllculty In getting another Maori constable who could fill his shako with any dogroo of succc*?.

John Cross is staying at the N|w Zealander. John took up land m tjie Alfredtoiv district many years ago, and, by dint of wiping the whiskers off the world, .--which, m bushwhacker's pajrlance, means the clearings of the biluyv and scrub, ho finally founded a shc^^L farm for himself. Eventually he fov^^f that wool and mutton nvore of si|V value, that they enable him to sotljv m Masterton without bothering to ws>6 off any more of, the world's whiskeys. He relegated his son to the wool-pro-ducing, industry. John has a- deeplyrooted aversion to any liquid whfch oontains' Alcohol, and has always b&n ' a. keen. advocate of non-alooholic NKw Zealand. This has broiigtit him injto wordy controversy with many of »ils associates m the Commercial and Farmers' Club, but, as he always conducts these discussions with an absenca*ot animosity, it never gains him any enemies. John .is through hero to get $h» Lyall Bay water treatment, which, ~hd assures "Truth," contains nothing alcoholic whatever. , . •-. ■ .; • •-:.. ■..'.- „.• ,-Ki.ii y * * * '?. Dr. Kuno Meyer, a German profeatfois until recently was the occupant of' the Chair of Gaelic m Liverpool, and Freeman of the City of Dublin. Meyer, who has earned his money m England ior .some considerable time, and eaten John Bull's bread, went "over -to 'New York and made himself very vocal among Ihe Sinn Fein faction. He urgel Irishmen to rebel against the Government, promised the support of Qernmny tfor Irish political aspirations. Irißhifren arc astounded at the deceitful- pnftessor's conduct. His name is ekeorated all over Ireland, except among .those, miserable people" 1 whoso seditious rags have been suppressed. Dr. Kuno Meyer was onoe trusted -In- Irela-hdJ tbtitc at^ though he is paying lip-service m New York to the ideals and ambitions of Irishmen, the people, wlth^whom he professes to sympathise regaVd him with contempt. He wrote a crafty let*rer—to* a former ft*iendt;or WBj(^Gte«<g«t Moore, the famous Irish man of letters, beginning, ''My "Dear •Moore; 1 '! G&rg^ Mporb answered! him, ,biit> nsHJ&£tifs' same endearing fashion; m fact, it was an answer calculated to make the infamous Kuno Meyer sit up. Ge,ofg« Moore J bluhtly!told,himMthat i VM i S|V.e i garded the action as extremely loathIng, and that the thing that he would regard with shame as long as ho Jjved. was his former friendship. with- mm. • «« • • Lord Aberdeen, a welNmenning but not' very 'vigorous t*ee>, 'has resigned the Irish Viceroyshlp. 'Lady Aberdeen seems to have made n greater impression m Ireland than her husband. The office of Viceroy la mow social tlian political, and even those' social affairs at Dublin- Castle rarely^ parsed t .w.moi^ soiuq unpleasant incident. .Lorji A b.«yj; deen frequently offended Ir-ish^sUnloni* ists by breaches .of, political neutrality over the. Home. Rule «uostlpn. t .and,,^ was no uncommon thing for Unlqnl^ta tq boycott the social gatherings^ of .th« Irish Viceroy, Irish. Society 4s.;ia. ous thing to analyse, as Lord Aberdeen, found to his cos£ on many nn oc ( cAsfon, He was persona grata with tho Katlonall^ts, but as a .Viceroy, .who should keep ..thlngfs even between j^hp^wp ca,mps, / ,he was 'a' hopeless ,Jnflur,?rais an. "embarrassed pftantom^' r V -M\U "%Wj ceasor, I*pr,dSyimb,ourn 9,^l9^qf'ri.H, p{sticular importance,, .expppt] belpg. 1 X» expert polo player. He is ay.couajh to Mr. "Winston Churchill, When Churchill left the . Unionist Party m 190.4; the entire Wlmbourne family. followed, the youthful and brilliant politician like a „ lot of sheep. Churchill may haye'boeh right, or wrong; perhapß^ lip/ I< wa.a right. But tho Wlmbournos 1 , of whom the new Viceroy is their shining light, changed over m a fashion that,' <jot\fd not have been due to a sudden cha'ritf* m political theory. As Lord Wlmbourne la a very popular member of the ollto of Soeloty, nnd as the Irish Viceroyshlp does not require a forceful lfttoJlcct, there are no f oars ontortflined about his prospects. ' l ' . ; '