A New Zealander In Sydney Town

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 13

A New Zealander In Sydney Town

The shouting and the tumult have (ceased. Wo all know who won tho Melbourne Cup. Statesman’s win was an exceedingly popular one—with tho publ.c. The bookmakers were n quite so elated over the result. it is stated that over £250,000 eliang»«l hands at the Victorian Club in Melbourne the day following the great race. Bob Jansen. a well-know n bookie, brought L* 40.000 with him t«> settle. M a nine Lyons, equally wellknown. I am told, in turf circles*, carried €30.000 with him. There wei others who had X 10,000 and oth-r sums before them when settling commenced. ‘Tis an ill wind, assuredly, that blows no one a lirtle rold dust. And it is good to know that the publi does occasionally get a little of own back. Chapman and His Men Sydney warmly greeted Chapman .1 his men when they arrived from Melbourne to-day. Indeed, the greet in , was a little too warm for the English captain. lie continually mopped hi-' brow at the civil reception that followed. and complained of the bva . Just ns well that Mr. Chapman dul not arrive the previous day; SSdeg. in thy shade was recorded, the second highest rending this summer. A: any rate, it was more than the Englishman had bargained for. T 1: majority of the team favoured the new cinnamon shade in suitings, and yever:il carried the scheme right through —hats, socks and handkerchiefs were all of the same shade. Chapman, nonet or, tall and plump, was a mom tho minority who adhered to nannejs. His wife, formerly Miss Lowrv Hawke's Bay, is in Melbourne at'-.lie moment with members of her fa.milAccorupanied by .Miss Marion Luwn her sister, the wife of the English captain will leave for Auckland on ihe next trip of tho Aorangi. although Mrs chapman wilt return in time for the mort important matches. Chapman Proposes spending several weeks in tho Dominion at a later date with hiwife’s relatives. “N.Z. Leads the World’’ It IS comforting to know that New H^ aI o nd ’ ai * dai the world in something, and especially to hear the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce» f, ay Sf' 4 Vftpr a careful perusal of the New Zealand newspapers of the . i wee^s I was beginning to thmk that the little Dominion across the Tasman was very much behind the times, and that the Seddonian tradition of telling the world just how New Zealanders can show the wav had evaporated. However. Bruce ‘ lold a crowded Sydney audience the other day that New Zealand led the world in its treatment of the maternal probAustralians, he declared, must grapple with this question in the same way. A Commonwealth Maternal Hygiene Department, declared the Minister, was required. with the best men available at its head ; nothing less would satisfy him. estrange, though, that Mr. Bruce should come to this fortunate conclsuion .it the close of a strenuous election campaign! Talking of election meetings recalls the unhappy experience the other night night of Mrs. Tom Walsh, the wife of the seamen’s leader, and perhaps even . better known as Adela Pankhurst. It * f a ‘! i he other Sunday that poor Mrs. Witlsh was chased out of the Domain for airing her moderate views. Both Mrs. Walsh and her husband, f might add, are no longer miltants. They .are constitutionalists, and very proud, too, of that fact. Mrs. Walsh was asked to address the Renascent Society a , v ery inoffensive body, the other night at Burdekin House, one of the most beautiful homes of Old Sydney, and now available for meetings, lectures and amateur theatricals. But Burdeking House, even in its gentee] pri vine ver knew a gathering as that addressed by Adela Pankhurst Walsh, communist enemies of the Walsh couple invaded the lecture room, and lafi th T? n . a ® tiest tilings possible to Adela Pankhurst Walsh, very personal indeed. The meeting was soon The P ea ce-loving memHenas cent Society, who regarded Communists as spawn of i! 1 im ? elf ,’ had not bargained for 2deL p ey w. V , V ed Mrs - Wa,sh to “P-’H*. for iitv. ' }f h was not a aPnkhurst for nothing. Always a fighter, she stood to her guns, and gave the Communists us they could reasonably expect under the circumstances. Tasman Flyer Wedded Both Kingsford Smith and Charles LTlm, tho conquerors of the Tasman, were present at historic St. James's Church last night to see Harold Bitchfield, the navigator of the Southern Cross, married to Miss Rena Holdsworth. The bride was the daughter of a former Sydney solictor, and having inherited her fater’s wealth, is something approaching an heiress. FlightCommander iKngsford Smith showed his appreciation of Bieutenant Bitchfield’s services by acting as his best man. The navigator and his wife are spending their honeymoon motoring. They prefer it to the air. Cardinal for New Zealand Cardinal Cerretti will spend a dayin Auckland on his way across the Pacific on |he Aorangi next week. The cardinal is as busy as ever, and Monsignor O’Curran, his Irish secretary, from the Irish College in Rome, st es tht his Eminence misses none of his engagements. Thi week Cardinal Cerretti called at the Convent of the Poor Clares at Waverley. He is their Cardinal Protector at Rome. On tho Spirit of Australia, now speeding toward Europe via Singapore, and piloted by Captain Frank Hurley, is a small image of St. Christopher, which the cardinal blessed and handed to the Australian airmen. Girl Shop Thieves Shop Thieves are still the bane of Sydney shopkeepers. So when a magistrate has a chance of inflicting a penalty, he does not hesitate to exercise that gentle privilege. Two girls were sex. % need to six months’ imprisonment, with light labour thi* week, for this offence. Both were only 18 years of age. One of the girls I ealmjv took a dress off a rack at j Anthony Hordern’s, handed it to her | girl friend, who put it under her coat, j They admitted subsequently that it | was their intention to sel lthe frock j to a woman who was waiting outside I in the street! Novelist and Artist John Bede Dailey, the Australian author and writer, was married to-day to Claire Scott, daughter of Charles Scott, the Victorian artist. The bride, who has only recently returned from abroad, won considerable success as painter of child studies. Shu was also responsible for the cover design of her husband’s two novels. Mr. Dailey j is a son of the late Right lion. William j Bede Dailey, former Q.C. and Premier of Hew Boutfa Walos, ;ind one Of tho most brilliant politicians this State has ever known. A hideous little statue of the statesman “adorns’’ Hyde Park, erected by enthusiastic friends. Mrs. Bachlan Beaton, a daughter, who now resides in Melbourne, is well known to New Zealanders who have j visited Sydney in years past as one of ‘ the city’s charming hostesses.