PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Clarence Tisdale, late of the Fisks' Jubilee Singers, has been engaged m Melbourne .by Mr John Fuller, junr., for New Zealand.

Mr Neville Forder, sometime of N.Z. "Truth" .staff, sailed for Sydney by the Monowai last Saturday, havdne. severed hie connection with this paper.-

Mrs. T. M. Wilford has so far sufficiently recovered as to be shortly able to come to Wellington, from Dunedin, where a series of serious operations were performed on her.

Mr Tom Bowling, the popular soloist of the Besses was • suffering at the beginning of the week with an ulcerated lip. It didn't prevent Tom from, fulfilling his engagements, however, although some of his friends thought he'd have been wise to have taken a spell. •

Mr Charles Holloway has had 'a. very bad time since he came to. New Zealand, not necessarily financially,: but physically. He hasn't had one, day of really good health since he landed, and during the past three weeks has been confined to Ms room m the Hotel Cecil.

The well-known Australian; sculptor, Mr Nelson Illingworth, has been commissioned to execute a life bust of the Mayor of Christchurch, ,the Hon, Sir ' John Hall. Mr : Illingworth has, during the past few years, done statues and busts of a number of the most prominent men of Australia. And when Nelson does "get on a bust" he turns it to good account. His busts are so different from the erdinary kind, too !

-HMjir-Srnesrir-Oarffril 'Gntteh, . Wno Tlas been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate, and 1 will be located at Napier, was born m 1&76 m Dunedin, and was educated m England and also at the Boys' High. School, Dunedin, and at Otasio University. He was judge's associate to Jud^e Williams for some, time, and had been m practise at Naseby for about ten years. He was Mayor of Naseby for the last fiye years, and took a keen interest m the district!

Lord William Neville stands another chance of being gaoled. After his stretch of seven years he wrote his impression of the gaol that had the honor of 'holding him. He complained m his book of the harshness of the warders, who used to gloat o^ex the fact that Bill, the lord, scrub-bing,-brush m hand, had to wash down stairs and floors and do all sorts of'ioenial work. Poor Bill, he has no occupation, and his soft are hard to ca-ter for m gaol. Next time no doubt, he will be better suited, at emptying slops.

. A. service m memory of the * late Sir James Fergusson, .who Was killed at Kingston when the 'quake came •along,, was held m the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, on January -2JU Sir James served m- the Grenadiers from 1851' 'to 1856 s , and as a . captain took part, with ■ his regiment m the Crimean" campaign, being wounded at Inkerhran. Dr. Kennion, formerly of Adelaide, and aow Bishop of Bath and Wells, a brother-in-law of the late baronet, and the Rev. C. Peacock, chaplain to the brigade of Guards, officiated. On January 22 a similar service took place m the parish church of Dailly, Scotland, of which narish Sir James was heritor and elder.

The success of the recent" rifle championship meeting at Trentham was m a great measure due to the energy and capacity of Colonel Collins, who was m charge of the whole caboose, Everything went oS without a liitch, and m fact, though exf'ec/Wd to run on for at least ten ays, t-he competitions. were concluded three days earlier. Everybody was satisfied that the^ Colonel eclipsed himself on this occasion, and the Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier paid a tribute to the excellent management of the Colonel and congratulated the Rifle Association m having such a live man at the head of affairs. In volunteer circles the Colonel is deservedly popular. ;

Andrew Mack. . who will be here shortly under Mie J..C. Williamson management, introduces some new features m comedy. In "Tom Moore" he tries to "blarney" his landlady when that sweet individual "wants' her rent, but as this fails, he tries the effects of a song, with the landlady interjecting. It runs :— Oh the days are gone since beauty bright My -heart's chain wove : (Where's mv rint.) When my dream of love from morn ■till night Was love, still love. (I want my rint.) New hope may bloom And days may come— (Tbat s not my nut.).

John Fuller, junr., says* Melbourne . "Truth" of last week, fixed* Up! all his artists m Melbourne i ajrid^Sydney ' for the N.Z. circuit, and. leffroion *' tour round the world with. Kls Wife, last Wednesday. ' • * • « . » Miss Brings, the champion lady, rider, and her pony, Czarina, are to" be engaged for the Opunake Caledonian Society's sports, if suitable arrangements can 'be made. Hoots, mon, but won't the lassie be aid-i mired. * ■ ' •• ■•.' Lever, of Sunlight Soap fame, has moved m "the British Pariiarilent f'oij old age pensions to be, available at 65, and to be limi#d 'td 5s per week. Liberal notions has. Lever. Five shillings a week wouldn't keep Lever m socks. ' * ' * •:,'" The irony of fate. Captain Jones, of the Suevic, was making his last voyage on the , ship, and • only a few hours before the vessel struck the rocks the passengers had gathered together and presented him with a testimonial marking their appreciation .of his kindness and his ability. Little did they guess how disastrous that last voyage was to be., • Mr R. W. Holmes, Superintendent Engineer, is looked upoifby those m the service as the rightful' successor of the late : Engineer-in^Chief, Mr P. S. Hays. It is to be hoped the Goyernment won't adhere to the silly practice of sending to England for an expert. The majority of these English "experts" don't understand colonial conditions, and prove ran* failures. ••■•••• • • • ■ -■■«■ According to a Sydney paper, Monsignor O'Haraft, the Dr. Q'Harr :'ani^isb^resb'b^g!i^ ; "in* the^ famous ahd r ~sensationo.TOoningham v. Coninprham divorce, case, is enjoying a holiday to New Zealand. His health had not been too good for some time, and Cardinal Moran persuaded him to take a rest. If the MonsUnior is m New Zealand, the fact seems to hav# been kept very quiet. The late Mr P. S. Hay, ; Engineerin Chief for the colony, was one of the most respected and best liked of all heads m the Civil Service. ... His associates attribute his death to overwork. In November last he went ■ to Auckland for a trip, but he was run down from the start, and from pleurisy he contracted pneumonia and gradually wasted away. He leaves a wifei one daughter and four sons. ■ The days of "Robbery Under Arms" are no* over. A man name.d Eastern , recently, under threat. of a. loaded revolver, forced a Madr L to give up '; his hprse^saddle,; and bridle. It is also worthy of note, whilst on the subject of "Robbery Under. Arms," that .a son of the author of that wellknown novel recently used a revolver „ upon an alleged gold ' thief, at Kal'gc ie and shot him dead. .Mr. Jpmv Norton, at present m. Western' Aus- . tralia, has called upon the Minister; for Justice to have an enquiry into / . the matter, asking; why Browne should \ not be tried for manslaughter. '.. .., •.« • . Lord William Neville is m the soup again. Neville is one of England's - rotten and degenerate : nobles, and is-, said to be atole to trace his lineage , right back to the King-maker .of the War of the Roses period: of English hirstory. Neville has been held under ", heavy bail to answer a charge ofexr changing, by a trick, a box contain-' irig £400 worth <yt pearl and .diamond jewellery l>elonging to Millar and Fitch, pawnbrokers, for . a similar one containing pieces of coal wrapped m tissue paper. This same Neville seems to be a noble spieler. He is not many years out of gaol, where he spent seven years, for obt&imftglarge sums of money by what here would be called, a confidence trick. He got a mug m tow, and 'by some specious inducement got his signature to bills for large sums of money ■which were honored by ..a now deceased and wealthy money-lender. The mue: eventually erot his back up, . so did the money-lender, and Lord . William Neville got seven years, and the judge did not waste word* over the worthless soipn of wretched nbbilitv. Safe to say. if convict^ the noble lord will again go: back to Dartmoor, where distinction beiween classes is unknown. . :, <• • • The advent of Mr W.. H. Mont« gom.ery, of the D'Oyley Carte Company, to this colony, brings back memories of the day when D'Oylef Carte was associated with Gilbert and Sullivan. D'Oylev wias suppose* to- be tfce business man of the show, but all those m the inner circle' knew that it was his hard-faced, shrewd typist who engineered thing*. The only real cute business deal tfiat D'Oyley ever made was when he secured the services of his typist forever by marrying her, Mrs , Carte was one of those rare Women' whose judgment was never influenced by emotion. It was the dollars all the tyme with her.