PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 11 November 1905, Page 2

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Mr. W. Roy. Mr William Roy, who is standing for Clutha electorate as an Independent candidate, was born at Wairuna, in the heart of the Clutha county. He was educated at the Wairuna school, and has followed farming for the greater

portion of his life. For some fourteen months he was a missionary for the Presbyterian Church in certain parts of Southland. For the last two years he has been in the employ of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, stock and station agents, and with the exception of the 14 months in which he carried on missionary work he has been either farming or closely connected with it.

Mr. Byron Brown. Mr Brown was born in Wellington, in 1866, of old pioneer parents, and his mother is one of the two living survivors of the first ship (Phillip Laing) to Dunedin. He was brought up to the drapery trade, and worked for 11 years as assistant draper in Wellington. In 1899 he went to Australia for his health, and worked two years at shearing, bush-

felling, and sheep droving. He came to Otaki in 1892 as a bush-feller, and shortly after started the business that is now known as Byron Brown, Limited, general merchants, indent agents, etc., of which he is managing director and

owner of the greater part of the share capital. He is also chairman of directors of the Otaki-Manakau Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., Captain of the Otaki Rifle Club, and has held the championship of the Otaki Golf Club for the last four years. He is an Independent Liberal and No-License candidate.

Mr. D. Bnddo, Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, landed in New Zealand in 1875. Engineer by profession and farmer by choice. Has been member of many local bodies—school committees, Springs Road Board, chairman of Mandeville-Rangi-

ora Road Board, for past 10 years member of North Canterbury Education Board, and also member of Lyttelton Harbour Board. First elected as member for Kaiapoi in 1893. A Lib eral in politics, and a well-known authority in agriculture, and takes a keen interest in all matters affecting education.

Mr. J. Ivesa. Mr J. Ivess, who is a journalist byprofession, landed in Hokitika in 1868. It was not long before the reputed richness of the quartz reefs at Inangauhua (Reefton) attracted him to these fields, where he started a paper. Reefton was

included in the Nelson south-west goldfields, and on the Nelson Provincial Government granting a representative to Inangauhua Mr Ivess was induced to contest the seat against Mr De la Carreras, defeating that gentleman by the narrow majority of 4 votes. This seat Mr Ivess was twice returned for, which he held until the abolition of provinces came into force. Mr Ivess has twice held a seat in Parliament for Wakanui an adjoining constituency to Ashburton. In 1887 he unsuccessfully contested the Napier seat against the Hon. J. D. Ormond, being beaten by only 50 votes out of 2000. Mr Ivess contested the Selwyn seat at the last election. There were two Liberal candidates in the field, and the split of the Liberal vote secured Mr Hardy, the sitting member, the seat.

the voting being: Hardy. 1594; Ivess, 1051; Wilson. 554. Mr Ivess has gainer! the reputation of starting more newspapers than any man this side of the line, the record being put down at something over 30 in number.

Mr. W. G. Bassett. Mr W. G. Bassett is a native of New Zealand, his parents having landed in New Zealand at New Plymouth in 1841. He spent a few years of early manhood on the Thames goldfield. For many years he was a public works contractor, having built the Wanganui and other railway bridges, and carried

out two important sections of the Wel-lington-New Plymouth railway line. During the last ten years he has established the business of a timber merchant in W’anganui, where he has a large factory and yards, and employs a large number of men. tie is at the present time a member of the Wanga-

nui Harbour Board, Wanganui River Trust Board, and Wanganui Licensing Committee. He al o sat some years on the Wanganui Borough Council and School Committee- He is an opponent of the present Government, and advocates the “freehold” tnure, limited in area according to quality of land.

Mr. Charles Edwin Major. Mr Chas. Edwin Major, the present representative for Hawera, is a candidate for the seat the coming election. Mr Major is a Government supporter, with the reservation of a freeholder and an opponent of any further labour legislation that would prove inimical to fanning pursuits. During his now expiring term as a representative he has been a staunch advocate

for the pastoral and agricultural interests. He was born in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, part of the Duchy of Normandy, that has given so many warriors and forceful men to the world- Mr Major came to Wellington

when a boy, and has taken a ruling and active part in sports and polities all his life. He was Mayor of the borough of Hawera for 12 years, captain of volunteers and of Taranaki football representative team. During his career he has filled many and various public and social offices with taet and skill.

Mr. J. Stallworthy. Mr John Stallworthy is the Liberal candidate for the Kaipara seat. In September, 1872, he arrived in Auckland in the ship City of Auckland, Captain Ashby, and decided to remain in this colony. He had no friends or acquaintances in the land, and had to make his way without assistance. He moved North to Whangaroa, where he worked at the timber mill, and it was here that he was married in 1873. In 1874 he moved to Newmarket. Tn 1878 Mr Stallworthy entered the service of the Auckland Education Board as an assistant teacher in the Newmarket school, and in 1880 he was appointed head teacher to the Aratapu school. This position he held until 1890. when he became proprietor and editor of the “Wairoa Bell” newspaper at Aratapu. In his hands this journal made excellent progress, and in a few years he was able to purchase the “Northern Advertiser,” then running at Dargaville. The two papers were amalgamated, and Mr Stallworthy removed his office to Dargaville, where he still carries on business, and has become favourably known. Mr Stallworthy is a life-long abstainer, and has taken an active interest in temperance work. Eor many years Mr Stallworthy was the chairman of the Aratapu School Committee, and in 1903 was elected a member of the Auckland Education Board, which position he still retains. He was a candidate for ■Parliament in 1902 and contested the Kaipara seat ns a Liberal, but the seat was lost.

Mr. Thomas Hanau. The Independent candidate for the Thames is an Irishman from the Vale of Avoca, and in childhood lived near Charles Stewart Parnell. He has been thirty years in the colony. For years he was connected with the Sash and Door Company, and later with the Mercury Bay Timber Company. He has been farming since 1888 at Whitianga.

Mias Lily Colo. Mr Ben Fuller, always on the lookout for novelties and fresh talent, has been successful in introducing to Auckland audiences recently several “turns” of more than average ability and drawing power. The latest arrival is the talented English vaudeville artiste Miss Lily Cole, whose remarkable vocal powers have placed her in the front rank of music hall performers in the Old Country.

The Prince of Wales as a Sportsman. Of the Prince of Wales’ career as a sportsman comparatively little is known outside his immediate circle. Some little time ago, when a plebiscite was held in a popular magazine circulating among sportsmen as to who were the 12 most remarkable shots in this country, the result found the Prince of Wales bracketed with Prinee Victor Dhuleep Singh, Mr. F. E. R. Fryer, Mr. W. Stonor, and Lord Falconer in the fourth place, the first being filled by that prince of game shots.

Lord de Grey, the second by Mr. R. Rimington-Wilson and Lord Walsingham, while that brilliant shot, Mr. Headley Noble, occupied the third place in the final order. To give an idea of the deadly precision of the Prince’s aim it may be mentioned that he has performed the remarkable feat of firing both barrels of two guns in such rapid succession that he has had four dead pheasants falling through the air at the same moment, a feat requiring the acme of accuracy. The actual aggregate head of game killed at a royal shoot rarely

transpires, but when in 1901 the King and Prince of Wales enjoyed their first day’s shooting for the season in Windsor Great Park, it was significant that of the 500 pheasants that fell on that tempestuous day. by far the greatest bag fell to the deadlly aim of the Prinee. When in Canada in 1901 the Prince, then Duke of York, astonished the natives by his wild duck shooting, on one occasion bagging fifty head out of the 200 that his party brought down. The following year he enjoyed some splendid wild duck shooting at Netherby, Cumberland, when 1000 ducks were brought down.