ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17377, 23 June 1913, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr G. .1. Anderson. M.P., left Gore for Wellington on Saturday. Messrs J. A. Hunan and .i. C. Thomson, M.P.'s. will go north this week. Parliament will formally open on the JCUi. and. after the usual ceremonies, will adjourn as a mark of respect to the late Speaker. Sir Arthur Guinness, resuming again for the despatch of business on July I. Miss Rees’s (a New Zealander) oneact play "Uncle Bill" lias been well received at the Globe Theatre. A London cable states that the Hon T. Mackenzie, Lord Pdyt.h, and many New Zealanders, said farewell to Sir J. G. Ward at Victoria Station. Lady Ward and Miss Ward will remain for several months at Home. A very prominent and well-known citizen will be lost to Invercargill in tile person of Mr Robert Galbraith, who in a few weeks leaves to take’ over the proprietorship of tin’ Somerset Hotel at Ashburton. Mr Galbraith lias been for a long time associated with the Town Council, and also before amalgamation he was for four years on the East Invercargill Borough Council. Ho has also been long connected with the H. and C.A. Board, anil the Starr-Bowkett Society. For thirty-one years lie was a member of the Invercargill Garrison Band, and for no fewer than eighteen years lie acted as secretary. Possibly, however. Mr Galbraith will be best remembered os a footballer. As a threequarter he was hard to surpass, and was offered a place in one of the first teams to go to the Old Country. Tills was in ISSM. some tiiree years before the first Maori team was organised, and travelled to the Homeland, After his retirement as a player Mr Galbraith was elected to a position on the Rugby Union Committee of Management, of which body he has several times been President. Mr Galbraith lias been In Invercargill ever since he was a boy, and has naturally made a great many friends, whose best wishes will go with him to his future home. Mr Starr King Mason, a Christchurch young man. who has previously met with success as a writer of plays suitable for the film business, lias a further letter, dated May 10th, from the Vitagraph Company, New York. The following are extracts: —“With respect to your monuscript of ’ Be Ye Reconciled,’ we shall bo prepared to otter you the sum of 00 dollars for the same. We have only been able to give your play a mere glance over, and must give you praise for the excellent way in which is is written. . . . Your manuscripts are of excellent taste, and although we receive thousands of manuscripts of this kind, we are pleased to be able to say that yours Is the first of tills class to be accepted by us." American millionaires have been interviewed with the object of ascertaining whether they are happy and would like to live 100 years. Mr Carnegie posed for fourteen pictures illustrating ids favourite smile, and said. "I am the happiest man alive. 1 am not looking forward to anything better; in fact, I would give 100,000.000 dollars to anyone who could show me how to live till 1 am ready to leave." This interview took place before Mr Carnegie’s visit to St. Louis, where the iron-master was stricken with lumbago. Mr John D. Rockefeller, though looking in perfect health, did not seem so keen on living I as Mr’ Carnegie. "My doctor," ho said, “tells me I should live to be a hundred years barring accident, and lie is usually right. At least. 1 tell him so.” Mr Rockefeller intimated that life is a good thing while health —spiritual, physical and -mental—lasts, but after that. to j quote the Oil King's words, "me for the great plunge." "And the future life?” lie was asked. “My religious views are too well known to discuss,” answered the Standard Oil magnate.