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JA » R E E Z Y:- Tl U P 9 E T OF PEU- SON Al PAK »j
Vale, Victor Trumper,
Jimmy Thomson hasn't had a birth-
day for quite a while.
A Midlands pressman, W. B. Max-
well, goes lo the front. The bayonet
is mightier, thinks Max., than the or-
dinary editorial nib.
Billy Donald, partner of Olly Greig,
and who once managed the Gippsland
Fat Sisters, was a decade ago, in South
Africa, a temperance reform lecturer.
Though still a strict abstainer, B.D.
takes no great interest in Temperance
Alliance meetings, and. beyond a short
speech on Local Option at a time of a
political crisis, eaters little into the
cold-tea controversy.
Private Hillary, ex-collector of the
Perth City Council and now some-
where in Europe, has two sons fight-
ing with or ear him at the front.
Residents of Canning Bridge, Apple-
cross, Bicton and other over-the-river
resorts will recollect Hillary as an
active member.ot the Melville Roads
Board, and as having been chairman
of that body for some time.
A paragraph from a South African
paper that will interest many on this
Side:-"The "Rand Daily Mail* for 'the
time being is the only morning paper
published in Johannesburg.- It an-
nounces the retirement from active
participation in the business of Mr.,
George H. Kingswell, who for ten years
has been managing director of the con-
cern. He retires owing to délicate
health, but retains the whole of his
shareholding and his seat on the board
of directors." Many old Coolgardians
will remember Kingswell. "Billy Clare
in particular. ' .
. Apropos of the old catch-ques-
tion as to which parish an English
citizen belongs who was born at sea
(outside the three-mile territorial
limit), Stepney, East London, is the
parish, but it may be interesting to
know that so numerous were the re-
cords in the old'sailing-ship days that i
I a special strongroom is built into a re
cess in the old; church at Stepney,
where the records are kept. Especially
in the days of emigration .to America,
Australia, and New Zealand were the
births at sea large, and an interesting
hour can be spent In Stepney looking
up the names of those whose mid
ocean appearance on earth is there in-
scribed.
King George .-is the plainest living
.nonarch of any known occupant of a
i h rone.
Claude de Bernales and Jimmy
Nicholas between them divide the
honor of being the best host in Cot-
tesloe. A big civil servant is the
worst. «
Dr. Summers, having composed a
War Hymn, entitled '"Fearless, Ö
j God!'.' intends, to take it first to Mel-
bourne, afterwards to London, then
to the Continent, if the Allies allow it.
It was a year last Tuesday (June 2$)
since was assassinated the Archduke
i Franz Ferdinand, nephew and heir ot
[ the Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus-
tria. He and bis consort were both
murdered in the streets of Serajevo,
the direct result being the present tre-
mendous world-war.
Lost, strayed, or obliterated. Vic.!
Suhard, for so long connected with the.
self-raising flour and liquor trade of
W.A. Some Nor'-West port a "few
months ago claimed V.S.. as a hostage,
but of recent weeks nothing has been
heard of the once-dashing Bohemian,
who so lustily lifted-a" baritone of
aforetime to the glory of music
Arty Holmes, of the late Richard
Holmes family, looked in, en passant,
from Melbourne to Somewhere in
Europe, and became Mother's Boy for
.a while. Missed one steamer through
attending a committee meeting of th«
Temperance Alliance, but is going on j
with the next boat Since bis stay
over in the East, AJL has put on i
weight amusingly, and is now well up
to 15 stone weight. Coming over on j
the - steamer one of the Victorian
crowd, not quite recovered from a
jovial time in embarkation, offered to
fight anyone on . board for a pound, '
bare knuckles or gloves.- Arty Hohnes
stepped up, and-as the sergeant in-
sisted OD gloves, put on the padded
mittens and awaited the rush. The
fight lasted three hits. The challenger
first hit the air. Arty Holmes blt the
challenger, and then the latter hit the
deck. The Jimmy .O'Goblin was paid
over promptly, and the challenger un-
til they got to Fremantle was a very
subdued person indeed. AH. was
presented with the boxing gloves as a
memento of the occasion, but as he
forgot to bring all his luggage ashore
when he ran up to me Ha they are
new Somewhere at Sea,
?~ Detective-Sergeant Harry Mann has
a eon qualifying to jobi the Naval Col-
lege.
A graceful .compliment printed
amongst the "beatas" in a last week's j
"West Australian":
Broomfield.-In remembrance of
Mr. S. W. Broomfield, late con-
ductor, Perth Electric ? Tramways.
For courtesy and kind attention to
a traveller.
A bright patch la a drab, ungrate-
ful world.
Where now are the Tories who'
scoffed at Lloyd-George a couple of
years ago as a wild-haired dreamer, a
red-rag demagogue, and worse? Af-
ter bis famous meTOng-pot speech and
his equally forcible nrst-of-the-lltter
attack on the House of Lords, "there
were those who would have hung him
in chains, and stuck his bead on the
topmost spike of Westminster Hall.
The late Frank Seccombe, killed on
the field of honjbr at the Dardanelles,
will be remembered by numerous"
amusement seekers in Perth. Was born
in South Australia, and .from an early
age was ? a musical enthusiast, be*
ing in after-years the possessor of a
magnificent bass voice. Showed her«
with the Wardrops, who with then
daughter, Little Mollie, will be remem-
bered by patrons of the Shaftesbury,
Melrose, the open-air Pierrots at South
Beach, and the majority of the big'
country towns. Seccombe was of mag-
nificent physique, and . was . as hefty
with his fists-lh a rough-up as he was
proficient on the harmonious ivories. ;
More than once . down tn the jarrah
country. When a mill hand- or sleeper
cutter had allowed his tonicked tonguej
to outrun common decency, it was Sec
combe who warned him to desist, and
it was the same Seccombe who, when
the lout repeated the obnoxious epi-
thet or expression, put him to sleep for
half an hour with ono of the piston
punches he kept handy for such occa-
sions. Apart * from_ such affairs, F.S."
was a breezy, good-natured Bohemian,
and was splendid company at a private
festivity or smoke social- 'The present
war gave .him not his . first baptism of
'fire. Frank acquitted himself well
in the Boer War, having sustained a
slight injury to one of his eyes through
a small BP lint from a shrapnel shell.
He leaves a widow in Fremantle, his
step-daughter, Mies May Doyle, being
one of the most popular young shop as-
sistants in Boan Brothers'.
'An cock of the Anecdotes goes war
wards. So «foes Vere Poulett-Harris,
well known In mining circles.
Not generally known that Grant
Hervey (right name George Cochrane)
one« wrote a stirring poem entitled
"The Night I Spent In Quod." For
"Night" put "Tears," and G.H. may be
able to ..rhyming] y summarise his pre-
sent position.
Hanging near the Savings Bank De-
partment in Boan Brothers' is an
Honor Board on which are printed the
names of nearly 30 ex-employee who
are now fighting at the front or in
training at Blackboy. "Wounded" is
written, af ter the name of but one at j
present. I
The regrettable news of the death
ef Victor Trumper recalls a famous
test match at Lords, London, in mid- j
1899, the Australians won by, wc think,
eight or so wickets. In it Trumper |
scored 186 not out, his batting being
one of the most brilliant performances
of a dazzling sequence of successes.
The match was a three days' one, and
at lunch bour the Englishmen had
some nine wickets down in -their se-
cond innings, and were 60 ahead of
the Australians. The week previous,
on . the same ground, an M.C.C. - team
had made a prodigious . last-wicket
¿core, and when the news went ap
that day all over London that the
Englishmen were still batting with a
chance of a draw, tens of thousands
who would otherwise have stayed
away and sulkily read of the defeat
; later on' in the afternoon rolled up to
I see their man stave oft defeat with
r the assistance of time. That day a
I few overs before lunch writer saw
what is very rare, a schlenter in an
AU England-Australian cricket match.
A very .soft batsman was last in (slow
bowling was his forte), and, as Ernie
Jones said, he "could have been rocked
out in one up," bnt they threw up
some soft ones, knowing that with the
English wickets still standing at lunch
hour the classic ground would be
crowded later on. It was, and a dense-
ly' packed ring watched the Austra-
lians take the field after tiffin Bang!
One ball, from Jones, and'out were All
England. .Then two or Australia's
best went in, Victor Trumper, we
think amongst them, and with little
liosa the Australians reached and
passed the English total. We are not
quite sure, but we think that Victor.
Trumper made his 186 In the first in-
nings, and «oing in again Bist In the
second was not out when the winning
hit was scored.
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