PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 122, 19 October 1907, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

Ada Crossley and Paderewski are each arranging concert tours of Australasia next year, m addition to Jan Kubelik. A new dramatic star, Margaret Anglin, and her American company, have been engaged by the Williamson management.

•Joseph Ivess, of Taihape, at present, has established more newspapers, probably, than any other man m the world. He has started 45 papers m Australasia, mostly m New Zealand. And New Zealand will take a long time to forget and forgive him for it, too !

Mr J. McKewen, formerly a wellknown Dunedin boniface, and also the owner of several horses, including: Nihilist and Alder shot, has shifted with his family to Palmerston N. If "Mac" goes into business m the central town, he should soon become as popular as he was m Dunedin;

Passengers travelling to the West Coast of the South Island have recently sustained a severe loss by the removal of Chief Steward Salt from the s.s. Arahura to the Rotomahana. S.alt's transfer will be principally felt by commercials, with whom he was a . great favorite, and general expressions of regret were heard on all sides when the news became known last week.

Poor Horace Bent, who twentyfive years ago took • Australia by storm, was one of the wittiest and funniest black-faced comedians who ever came out, and he lately died m Melbourne from cancer. Poor 'old Horace was nearly seventy, and for years his life had been one prolo.uFed agony. His 'death, which happened m a hospital, was a hanpy release. He was buried m a pauper grave, without his. f rietids^: or , .;any relative knowing anvtbino- about the death. What a ringing down of the curtain '!•

Claude C. Neville, shades of "The King Maker," and the spieling lord of that name at present doing a 12 months' stretch m an English prison for roguery, seems to be a passive resister of the long-suffering variety. Claude C. is up against our matrimonial laws and won't pay for the support of his wife and family, and a Waihi Bench gave him six months' gaol to thoroughly reflect on the rottenness of things generally. Not long ago C. C. served a similar term for a similar reason. Perhaps he reckons , he's found 'ome sweet 'ome at last.

Actor J. B. Attholwood, here with the Tittell Brune Company, was originally a plumber. Jimmy is, without doubt, the finest , character actor m Australasia. When he first decided to go on the boards, he refused a Government billet of £3 a week. His first engagement was with Bill Hollowly and Essie Jenyns, then went to India with East and Geo. Milne. On returning he did a twelve months' rest, and then joined J. C. Williamson's "Prisoner of Zenda" Company, playing a small part. Appeared as the sr>v m the first production of "The Sign of the Cross." and later with Wilson Barrett played Nero m the same drama at a day's notice. Now gets his £12 a week.

vJbhn Fuller, junior,' was somewhere m the vicinity of New York, having done Porktown and Packington and Chicago and its suburbs when the mail left. Then he was going to San Francisco and the Far Eastern countries, and is due hack to the "earth" about Christmas time. John, junr., has been talking big m the ' land of the wooden nutmeg and skite, and made theatrical managers gasp some. One Yankee paper says of young Mr Fuller, who is accompanied by his wife, that he was not much impressed by the massiveness of American vaudeville m respect to the salaries and high rental of theatres. A very good theatre may be secured m New Zealand for from 300dol. to 400dol. weekly, and when told how many English pounds would be required for a New York house Mr Fuller was amazed.

Solicitor Wilford finds that politician Wilford trenches largely on his legal time, and the two Wilfords— who are really only one Wilford m the flesh— have to shift themselves with the rapidity of a transcontinental motor car to keep ahead of things. On Monday the solicitormember had a cab waiting for him at different courts most of the day. He left the Magistrate's Court-, at 5.25, was" whirled to Parliament House, got the Petone Water Supply Bill re-committed, saw. it through committee, superintended the third -reading, hurled himself into the cab, and was back m court at 3.40 (just fifteen minutes) and • waiting', • impatiently to di.sycse of

of stream pollution cases before he dashed up to the Reps, again at 4 p.m. to further assist m. manufacturing laws for this great an:l glor ious country.

"Microbe" Freeth, the bounding journalistic joker of the Manawatu, was, at the latest advices m Yokohama, Japan. What a treat the Geishas must be having, sure. The Microbe will be back with us this side of ' Christmas. Pity he cannot keep away for all eternity. His genius is not missed.

Flatman, of Geraldine, believes that more encouragement should be given to volunteers, and is incensed at the Government's diplomatic reply, to a question of his on the subject. In his mind's eye the deputy chairman of committees sees a foreign army landing at Wellington and hewing its way through aiv unarmed populace to flhe gold vaults at tUfi bank.

- "Truth" was pleased to see Sub* Inspector O'Donovan back at his past) at 'LamMon Quay on Tuesday las.t. Mr O'Donovan had been away on; holiday leave for six weeks, and hisi ramblings appear to have done him! the worjd of good. Mr O'Donovan is universally respected, and everybody who conies m contact with the gen./ tleman never fail to proclaim him a white man.

Miss Lena Henrichs, of the Mother Goose Company, who was taken ill tew wards the conclusion of the . Company's season m Wellington, and was obliged to stay behind m wet und windy, has so far recovered as to have left last 1 evening for Dunedin., where she will rejoin the Company. The little lady is well-known m all th« principal centres of the Dominion, and everybody will be pleased ta hear that she is up and doing agaia,

An old landmark of Maori Creek, itf the person of John Wilson, better known as "Jack the Barber," die& at the Grey- River Hospital recently ? Deceased was a single man, and! & native of Ireland. He was a fine ols fellow, and it was his proud boast that he was born on the same day as the late Queen Victoria, which will show he is 88 years of age. Fox many years he ran a coach betwee^ .tfun^ ganville and Greymouth, .a!SL|j^so kept a store at the former iflp:ce.

Parata, Southern Maori Member;) speaks sometimes with an interpret^ er, sometimes without one, but al* ways talks gooh sense. These fat! Maoris were slumbering peacefully ia the Speaker's Gallery on Wednesday, when Parata got up and delivered a short decisive sentence m his native tongue. Immediately three pairs 08 dark eyes opened arid three burlyj forms leaned over the gallery front.; It .was something . about . the subdiy-? ision of a Maori estate and the necessity . of a new railway station somewhere. The grey-bearded native Member reproached the Government m courtly Maori phrases, and the trio of brown persons - griwjed! ecstatically during the delivery.

Tommy Wilford recently offered a prize to the Petone school-boy who wrote the West essay on what he saw; m Parliament,, when he paid that'august assembly a visit on Wednesday) last. On .that day the Speaker's ,gal-i lery was full of intelligent kids thirsting for information, and it was bitter irony that the discussion should turn on the unfortunate ill-paid school teachers m. the country. Whether! there was collusion .. amongst meiiH hers to harp upon this particular strtn ject, "Truth" knows not, tfut as it was inadvisable that the youngsters should "become inspired with con-, tempt for their mentors, who didn't} get as much wages as an ordinary, navvy, Hutt's elected hastily asfcend-i ed the gallery and suggested an. exo-j dus of the pupils.

According to JoHii Bull, jnr., we mean John Puller, jnr., who is presently glotfe-trotting, and is talking m the States with great effect, old man John tours the world next year In 1909 Brother- Ben follows the man from Cook's. A sort of theatrical.education, according to John, jnr. .The Fullers want to b'ecomc thoroughly, familiar with theatrical conditions m all parts of the world.

There passed over the Edge m Ho* bart (Tas.) recently, Edwin Ings, editor of the "Tasmanian Mail," at the age of seventy years. He* was a native of England, where, as » youth, he studied law for a short time, and then migrated to God's Own Country where, havine: been alternately schoolmaster and gumdipsrer on the Thames field, he adopted journalism, and for a while engaged ,on the "N.Z. Times" Twenty-five years ago Ings accepts^ the sub-editorship of the Hobarfc Mercury," and worked the strenuous life for the Davies, Ltd., ptitt!n» m year m and- year out the work of two men. In recognition rf l.^g •and faithful service, be, tlvr.?o nivvnt:^?: ngo. was promoted to Ihr :v ; 'o--' ; -J chair of the "Mail," Vi * ■•.•\<,?tiV,.V'Ys« expected years afro. T?»"-ic" *-•!■>, 7, t ;>;■;!- --liant ronv/M-sationslist, ? 'v.l!.T>rryt pressman, and every inch cX him a Bohemian.