PARS ABOUT PEOPLE

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 796, 31 March 1894, Page 3

PARS ABOUT PEOPLE

Detective Chrystal is in St. Matthews' ohoir. Who is he watching ?

Reported that Seddoo assured Mrs Chemis her husband would be released when Parliament met.

It is rumoured that Inspector Broham is likely to be made Commissioner of Polioe for the colony.

What has Jackson Palmer done to Fair Play that it should consider him ' a masher nonentity in the House ?'

Mr John Bray, of Sydney, left Auckland early in December on a walking tour. He tramped through the Waikato to Te Aroha, Tauranga, Eotorua, Napier, Masterton, and a few days ago turned up in Wellington as fresh as paint and as sound as a bell.

Hugh Hart Lusk, who has just been struck off the rolls as a barrister in Sydney, for using clients' money, was at one time Chairman of the Board of Education in Auckland, and in the old days contested the election for the Superintendency of the province.

Mr O. Latchmore, who has for many years past been purser of the Island steamer Richmond, has just quitted a life on the ocean wave for a home on terra firma. He has accepted a situation at Masterton. There will be grief in the South Seas.

Abraham Bowden is not to be turned from his avocation by the action of the Council in suspending his license. He has recently been to Sydney and brought over 63 horses and eight cabs for the extension of hia business. He is enterprising in spite of the persecution to which he is subjected. As we said before, the Council were led by the nose in suspending his business. Someone should have been made an example of, bnt they took hold of the wrong man.

Clement Wragge, the Queensland Captain Edwin, when he travels by steamer generally tests the temperature of sea water at various points. Noflong ago he was making a trip by sea and one of the hands raised him a bucket of water without noticing the esoape-pipe from the boiler had blown off. Clement popped his thermometer into the bucket and a minute afterwards exolaimed : * Tell the Captain to hurry out of this; we're steaming right over a volcano.'

Detective Bailey, of Auokland, is n Christchurch where he will probably be stationed shortly.

It C. Greenwood is once again in Auckland. Mrs G., the beauteous Mariebell, and the other members of 'the talented family' (vide small bills) are not with him.

Business Manager Macindoe, of the Herald, has withdrawn his patronage from All Saints. He is offended about those alterations. Here's a chance for the Union Free Churoh or Pastor Blaikie.

John Burns can be sarcastic when he likes even at the expense of the ' pore working man.' Said John the other day at a meeting 1 in London : ' The working man now is beginning to want a shilling an hour, and no work between meals.' John makes a good deal more than, a shilling an hour himself, out of the working man, too.

Hugh Hart Luak will probably return to Auckland, no w that he has been Btruok off the rolls aB a barrister in Now South Wales. The decided action of the Sydney Court should be a warning to Hugh, but the wonder is, how such an exceptionally cute individual as he is supposed to be, came to allow himself to be tripped up. UsiDg his clients money, eh? But, God bless you, that is nothing in Auckland. Lots of them do it here, but we have a different law for esteemed citizens, and poor men. That is why they don't get punished.

The Australian evangelist, Mr John McNeil, who is at present in Auckland, moat not be confounded with McNeil, the great Scotch preaoher who resigned the pastorate of the Regent Square Church, London, to join Mr Moody in similar work. They are two distinct and very different men. Please don't confound them, but learn to be content with small mercies in exchange for your threepenny.

The Hon. James Carroll received a great shock to his feelings at Whangarei, when he was shown a copy of Fair Play (Wellington) giving his name in capital letters to a photo of Mr R. Thompson, M.H.R., and also asoribing to the modest James all the traits of character which had been physiognomioally read from the photograph. He supposes that as the writer could not get a genuine portrait of himself he ran in Eobt. Thompson as the next beßt Maori.

Gladstone stories are now on tap. Here's the latest. Two Londoners hearing that it was impossible to start a subject in Gladstone's presence which he didn't know something about, hunted up a musty old magazine and posted themselves on 'Chinese manufactures.' Invited to dine at the same table as the People's William they bided their time and then began to oonverse about manufactures in the Flowery Land. Gladstone listened, deeply interested. At last he said: C I perceive that you have read an article of mine on this subject contributed to the »

raagzine SO or 40 years ago.' Tableau !

Masher Pyke is now known as * Sequah '—all on account of those abundant looks, of course.

The rascally Jabez Balfour, who posed at one time as the champion Blue Ribbonht of England, had set up as a brewer in Argentina when he was arrested.

Mr R.H. Beattie has resigned his position as manager of the Star Hotel. This is to be regretted, as the house had increased very much in popularity under his management.

T. P. O Connor, of London Sunday Times, says Lord Onslow is 'a man whose talents deserve the charge of a village post-office for their adequate area.' Onelow has probably ' stopped his paper.'

Brough says the 'grand tour' of the colonies pays. It takes just a year, playing the prinoipal cities. The route is as follows :— New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and New Zealand. B. and B. have had several offers to take their company to America, and they are still thinking the matter over. One or other of the B/s goei to London in the near future— probably Boucicault.

Mr Bloomfield, owner of the crack Auckland yacht, Viking, which beat the Sydney flyer, the Volunteer, the. other day, has, says the Bulletin, had a far from uneventful life. With his mother and his brothers he was among Ibe few survivors of the horrible Poverty Bay massacre, in 1868. when over 80 of their fellow settlers were slam by Te Kooti. The Bloomfield family, almost ruined by the Maori troubles, lived for several years in a state of penury, but when Captain Eeid, their uncle died, he left the boys .£160,000.

Charles K. Harris, the man who wrote ' After the Ball,' was, says an American writer, married in Chicago Sunday evening, and after he returns from his wedding trip he will be at home in a beautiful house, built out of the prooeeda and furnished lavishly from the rewards of other folks' misery. For one year his doleful Btory of aching hearts has been hummed by a million voices, played by a. million orchestras, whistled by a million idiots, thrummed on a million bandi, cursed by a million ' expletives until its very words, uttered or suggested, are enough to start a tumult or send » man to gaol.

Calcutta Sunday Time* recently contained a well-written, bright and airy biographical sketch of, and interview with that theatrical celebrity, manager T. V. Twinning, lessee of the Corinthian Theatre, Calcutta— the hero of a thousand shows. Twinning c ran ' the Brown-Potter and the l Curley ' Bellew— stop, isn't he running them still ?— and his experiences as a manager would fill a volume. The Times man winds up with recounting that there was ' a proffer of beverages ' — somehow there generally is on these occasions —and Mr Twinning being handed a dirty glass by the Indian 'bearer,' growled. The bearer retired with a salaam. Sad* denly T.V.T. looking round exolaimed: 'Good gracious! Bearer, you're wiping my tumbler on a handkerchief, you— — you !' The bearer smiles, and assumes the look of superior wisdom so easy, to the subordinate Asiatic. 'Sahib does not know; he speaks hastily. This is not Sahib's own handkerchief; it is one that I picked up in the theatre.' But we rather fancy we've met with this yarn before — in another setting.

■^Messrs Graham and Fyfe, two wellknown mountaineers, have succeeded in finding a practicable path, across the Southern Alps from the East to West Coast to West Coast. On Feb. 7th they crossed the dividing range into Sandbrough and thenoe to the Douglas River, They returned to the Hermitage (Mt. Cook district) after a five days' trip, and speak of the Bcenery as very beautiful. After thi& they succeeded in scaling the final peak of De la B6che, 10,021 feet high. The time occupied was 11 hours and 30 minutes. This is one of the best records yet nade in New Zealand, having been several times attempted but never before successfully. After this they showed what could bedone with beginners, Mr Graham guiding a party consisting of Drs. N. K. and H. Cox, Mr G. Godfrey and J. Clark to the top of the Hochstetter Dome, 9,300 feet. Prom the Mt. Cook side this is entirely cased in ice, and is renderedmore interesting from the ice having cracked in many places, leaving large yawning fissures or crevasses which have either to be jumped or walked round. Some idea of the height may be obtained 1 when we say that this is nearly 1000 feet higher than Mt. Egmont. Prom the top a. splendid view was obtained of the mountain ranges behind, with the West Coast and sea visible in the distance. The west side of the Dome ia apparently a perpendicular wall of rook. They were fortunate in experiencing very favourable weather . To anyone who likes a cool bracing climate, especially if fond of climbing, we <•«« *«' commend the Mt. Cook district.