PERSONALITIES.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 603, 24 January 1891, Page 6

PERSONALITIES.

Mb David Goldie, M.H.8., is still in Auckland. Mb Conolly, U.S. Consul, is now living at Northcote. Sir Wm. Fcx was 79 years of age on Wednesday last. Madame Burton's Concert Company has disbanded in Auckland. Sir Julius Yogel has a son in Wellington filling the position of a solicitor. | Mrs David Goldie and family hava been sojourning at Te Aroha for some time. Jack Hempton has definitely decided not to come to Auckland, owing to his illness. Miss Helen Vivian takes a benefit to-morrow (Friday) evening at the Opera House. Major Gordon, of Dunedin, -has been appointed to the command of the Christchurch district. Miss Aohurch's benefit at the Opera House this (Thursday) evening. There ought to be an overflowing house. Arthur Vivian, the actor, is possessed of the ' divine afflatus,' as will be Been by his poem in this issue of the Observer. 1 Hooker 1 Conway, so well known in football oircles, is seriously ill with congestion of the lungs, brought on by a neglected cold. J. T. Smith, publican, is bankrupt, while E. T. Smith, temperance showman, has a well-filled purse. Is the world growing better ? Some of the clerks in one of the legal offices in Wyndham-street had a little squabble the other day and one or two got drenched with dirty water. Mb J. M. Geddis, Hansard reporter, is said to have got the refusal of the appointment as chief reporter to the New Zealand Times, Wellington. Mrs Giles, Mr 3 Dallen, Mr and Mrs Goodson, of Auckland, and Mrs and Miss McKerrow, of Wellington, are among visitors to Te Aroha at present. Mb Tract, of the Permanent Force, has resigned and left for Dunedin. He could not bear to live here after the awful death of his brother at Hnntly. ' Bob ' Blaikie and ' Bill ' Lyons, old ' pards ' in the pencilling line, are now doing the Hot Lakes in company. They never were in hot water before. The Chairman, Councillor Sharp and the clerk of Waitemata County Council were at Swanson on 10th inst. Evidently there is some dark job on hand. Messrs. Dudeb are entirely disgusted at tbe Victorian handicapper giving Cuirassier top weight, 9st 81b. They expected he would only get 9st at the outside. Madame Cunard, now in Auckland with the Harvey Brothers, will go to America at the close of her season, to fulfil an engagement in the United States at £40 per week. Ralph Brothers have given £150 to the fund for relief of the families affected by the mining disaster at Huntly. They ought to give all that i 3 required, as they are owners of the mine. Captain Joe Sommerville, who has filled the position of Chairman of the N.Z.R.A. for a long time past, is getting very unpopular. A few years back, he was quite a different person. Mr Fred Plumher, the converted burglar of Auckland, is now up Albertland way, where he is giving a series of temperance lectures. He would do well stumping the colonies on this • racket.' Mr W. H. Churton has been employed on the special audit of the Parnell Orphan Home accounts, rendered necessary by Rawlings' cookery experiments. Some of the dodges of accused were so simple that a competent auditor would have discovered them. Will the trustees make good the money lost through their culpable carelessness ? . - John Abbott, it is well known, has a very valuable, capaoious imagination. It requires regulation. Whilst he was walking (' a fool's pace ') on the AucklandEpsom road, his attention was arrested by a dense, dark cloud of sparrows. It ia now said that it was evolved during sleep, from illusion of his active imagination. Monsieur Auouste Etienne, a Frenchman, on his way to Tahiti, lately honoured Te Aroha with a visit. This Gallic cock has been crowing rather loudly. He has expressed disapproval of English manners, and says he has been shocked by our style of cooking, the way we take our meals, and the want of respect shown to ladies generally, confirming all he had read of ' the uncouth behaviour of the English people I 1 — Late English files show the list of winning jockeys, T. Loates again occupying 1 first place, having 1 been successful 148 times out of 658 mounts, and he and G. Barrett are the only two who rode over 100 winners during the season. A notable falling off is witnessed in the case of Fred Barrett, who only rode 41 winners as against 80 in 1889 and 108 two years ago.]