PERSONALITIES.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 623, 6 December 1890, Page 6

PERSONALITIES.

Sir George Grey's health continues critical

Mick Gallagher was in grest demand during Peter Jackson's Btay in Auckland,

Mb Pekcival, the artist, has gone to Napier, leaving his pictures in Auckland.

Mr T. Henderson, whom the Star says has gone to San Francisco, is still in Auckland.

The B N.Z. <"*ook at Cambridge has been removed to Tauranga, to take the place of Bob Seddon.

Mb Goeo. Kent is to be Mayor of Newmarket for the coming: year, having defeated Mr Clayton by two votes.

Mks Aldis supports a Russian journal conducted in London, in the cause of the Czar's downtrodden ssbjeots.

Mats and Alison both did their level best to win the Devonport Mayoralty, but Alison got a ,most decisive majority.

Hugh Shortland, solicitor, eto., was publicly rebuked in the Supreme Court and Police Court on Monday last.

Mb O'Mbagheb made a touching appeal for Annie Rauner, and the sympathatic judge liberated her on six months' probation.

Mb E. W. Alison carried the Mayoral Election at Devonport by a majority of forty votes over his opponent, Mr Oliver Mays.

Mb E. Cabb has followed Glover's example and resigned his seat on the City Schools Committee, but TJssher still fails to see his duty.

Wellington working men are raising a fund by sixpenny subscriptions to erect a memorial of Sir George Grey. What is Auckland meaning to do P

Mrs Quoi, of Cross-street, Newton, has an advertisement in another column, indignantly repudiating slanderous insinuations against her character.

Captain Alexander Montgomerie, who was an old resident of Wanganui, died a few days back. He formerly served in H. M. 10th Light Foot Infantry.

Three witches at North Shore : ' All hail, Alison, Chairman of Ferry Company ! All hail, Alison, Mayor of Devonport ! A 1 hail, Alison, thou shalt be M..H.8. for Waitemata !'

W. R. Wills, poet, efcu., is bnfc t; c ghost of his former self, the result of his painful iulenm t disorder. His only ray of hope lies in the fact that lie aas been ' given up by the doctors.'

Some new colonial Mayors:— Wellington, A. W, Brown ; Nelson, Francis Trabk ; Christohurcn, C. M. Gray ; Dunedin, John Carroll ; Wanganui, H. Nathan ; Hamilton, J. Coates.

Stewart Bates, proprietor of the Opotiki Herald, having accused Eev. J. Wills of committing an indictable offence, the rev. gentleman has got Bates committed for trial for criminal libel.

Mrs Day has acted the part of a heroine in the unhappy Annie Kauner case. Her advocacy of this poor girl as against the scoundrel who betrayed her may be called a warfare of light against darkness— of day against night.

Mr Justice Conollt does not mince his words in dealing with erring members of the legal profession. His warm denunciation of Brother Humphreys was equalled by his strong condemnation of Nephew Shortland's gross contempt of Court. Will any lawyer move to have Humphreys struck off the roll, or to have Shortland ' attached ?'

Auckland University students intend to mark their esteem and affection for Professor Posnett by presenting him with an engrossed address, elaborately bound in morocco case Posnett is the one of onr local Professors who has worked hard for his salary and who has completely won the confidence of students. He is possessed of genius, and will probably be heard of in the world of letters ere long.

Mk John Coknish, of. .Randolph-street, Auckland, ia a wonderful old man, and (ad Paddy would hive it)- so ia his wife. Born in 1812 and 1814 respectively, they entered the happy bonds in 1833 when they appear to have tied a very stiff knot. Many a caufcy day they've been with ane anither, and now hand in hand they're toddling down the hill, still hale aud hearty, after fiftyseven years' companionship. Headers — Gk> ye and do likewise.

Sydnby Taiwbtanga, Maori M.H.H., has not Ion? survived the dish< nest lawyer, Eorwosd, who was 'cute enough to rob Taiwhanga a few years ago. Sydney was a bit of a scoundrel himself, and no doubt he and Forwood will meet upon the other shore. The incident will long be remembered of Taiwhauga mounting a, street rostrum iv London and lecturi ng tb.« barbarians of that city on their manifold sins. Taiwhanga married an Irish lady in New Zealand, whom he did not treat well He in fact failed to provide for her, thrashed her (or tried to do it, for she is a woman of spirit) -indulged vi a number of extravagances, was frequently sued by tradesmen, and was evicted from a Wellington house for non-payment of rent. Many of the Maoris had faith in him as a political leader, but that is no evidence of true greatness, whether in a person of white or dusky complexion. Sydney David Taiwhanga was. in short, a fair specimen of the aboriginal who has been apt at acquiring the vices of a superior race In the House of Representatives he usually spoke in the English language, unlike the Maori members ; and on one ocqasiou when a 'stonewall' was in progress, he achieved the feat of speaking for nine hours at>a stretch. , ■ ,