About People

Southland Times, Issue 19919, 8 September 1906, Page 2

About People

The Savii ri Dramatic Company is doing good business in the country towns, and appears at Winton to-night. Messrs I. W. Raymond and Co. have moved in premises 'in the Railway Hotel buildings. Dr Bradshaw, organist, and Director of lire Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, villi giro an organ recital in St. John’s Church, Invercargill, on Friday the 28lh insi. A Melbourne cable states that his colleagues unanimously offered Premier DewVm a High Court Judgeship, hut the honour was declined. Louis Spilzel, an ex-Australian, and She late Li Hung Chang's adviser, has db'd a: Carlsbad, leaving two millions si Hiding. A cable from London stales that Councillor Cunningham has been committed to prison for having ignored lit 1 injunction against grabbing lands at Plaistow by the unemployed. Responding to the Education Board's complimentary motion Mr McNab referred to liis six years’ STvice.on (lie Board as having been of groat advantage to Hi in in his political work.

Mr R. E. Hayes, accountant of the Tourist Department, ami who was formerly on the stall' of the General Post (Eire, lias been appointed Registrar of Friendly Societier in place of Mr Cgorge Leslie. II is understood that the work of the department formerly discharged tty Mr Leslie will, lie done by some outside expert and that Air C. T. Benzoni will

continue to not. as deputy registrar. Mi- Howlds also expressed his warm thanks and sab) it would lie his aim to act willi the utmost, impartiality. At i'ra.aitnomi on Wednesday evening

Mr Malcolm Cray was entertained at a Complimentary dinner at which ho was presented with the cup he Won at the Drummond Ploughing Match Association. It was mentioned at the meeting that ,Alit •■ray had competed in 2<j matches, ami Imd .seemed no less than 14 first, and six K"C:md prizes. In acknowledging the ompYmervl paid to him Air Gray sdd that il was not his‘intention to compete again—at least not for suin' years. The Hon. 11. Held wick. Vf.U.C., was present a' the conference of Acclimatisation Societies at Wellington on Wednesday as representative of the Southland Society,

Mr l-'owlds, with Ids Henry Georgeisw, seems to have hypnotised the entire Pithinel. Air AlcNah is a mere potit/c d Tritny, and sings Iho. songs which Ale Fnwlds as Sveagali instils into Ids ntad. —Christchurch Press.

Tim fiev. S. H. Prior, formerly of Invercargill. is at present holiday-making in England, His health, which was very indifferent when ho left Australia, has greatly improved during his travels. Mr Prior will lour Scotland and Ireland with his son, who is a student at Kdinhnrgh University. 'The New Zealand rink of howlers now’

Knglaryd defegletl West Haling rink on the green of the homo cluh in duly by 21 points t 0 Id. The New Zealand players were Messrs Lyons. 'Putt, Mercer, and Hutt. On tho following Monday at the Crystal Palace, the Now Zealand rink were del l ,’a ted by a margin ’,of 4 points by a rink of English internationals, captained hy Hr. W. G. Grace.

Preparations are on foot in Wellingtm to organise a reception for Messrs Pectin and Donovan, the Irish envoys are (o visit New Zealand shortly. Mr Hernard von Hotter, who disappeared outside (he Wellington Heads ill an open boat, on Friday hist, and has n. t since been hj ‘aid of, was a son of a gentleman (believed to bate been con-

nected with a (list iguished Herman family), who for many years was a clerk in the Thames post-office. The family is well-known in the Thames district 1 . Mrs von Rotter, sen., still lives at the. Thames.

Mr F. Wilding and his son, Mr A. P, Wilding (Christchurch) have been playing tennis at the .Shrewsbury Tournament. Playing together, father and' son won the(li ntlemen's Roubles Handicap ; the latter won the ftenUomen’s Singles Challenge Cnp, defeating ihe holder ,Mr E. R Allen) in the final : and in association with Miss Pinckney he ran through tho Mixed Roubles Handicap, and divided tho nri/e with Me H. Chiswell and Mrs, Hawker, time preventing the arrival of n definite issue. "

Mr Balfour celebrated his fifty-eighth birthday at the end of July, and tho paPngrnphiwts have seized the opportunity* to resurrect various playful anecdotes egnrding " onr only bachelor Premier simy> Pitt.” Both inside and outside Parliament tills bnclielondom of Mr lial!f’Ur has loan made the subject of many' *> jest. ” Tommy ” Bowles once reminded him that Lord Carteret used to enliven ( itbinel meetings by reading aloud extracts from his numerous love letters, he House smiled and Mr Balfour blushed. On another occasion, as Leader of (he Commons, he had to explain tho order in which the various bills would bo eroeeeOpfi with. When he came to tho Midwifes’ Expenses Bill, he said, hi the blandest manner : " 1 know nothing at out the Midwivcs' Expenses ” and tlie remainder of the sentence was drowned Trf roars of laughter. But worse Happened

some years ago, when he was staying in a Scotch Hotel. A postcard came to hint one morning, saying ; " Baby going rn nicely. X really think she has grown since you left.” A.J.Bf blushed, became embarrassed, and then discovered that the ‘message had been sent to another Mr Balfour stSajintf is the same house.