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INTERESTING PEOPLE
In All Parts Of Australia
Mr. J. C. Watson, chief clerk of the
Bank of New South Wales, London, is
paying a short visit to Australia. He is
accompanied by Mrs. Watson.
Prof essor Fisher, of the Chair of Eco
nomics at the University of Otago, New
Zealand, has come to Australia to at
tend the congress of the Australasian
Association of Psychology and Philo
sophy.
Professor F. Wood Jones, formerly of
the Adelaide University, and now Pro
fessor of Anatomy at the Melbourne
University, has gone to Sydney to give
a series of lectures under the auspices
of the New South Wales Permanent
Post-graduate Committee.
The Maharajah of ?Dhrampur, who
was recently in Adelaide, has left for
New Zealand. Before leaving for the
Dominion he said that he had much
enjoyed his short stay in Australia. He
is an authority on the music of his race,
and one of the objects of his visit to
New Zealand is to etudy the folk songs
of the Maoris.
Lieutenant-Colonel N. S. Falla, who
has just , been appointed managing
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pany of New Zealand, has been in the
service of that company since 1398. He
is also the manager in the Dominion
of the Federal Steam Navigation Com
pany. He resides in Wellington, and
has a distinguished war record.
Mr. Austin Exell. who died last week
at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, was known
throughout the Commonwealth as one
of the leading breeders of Friesian
cattle in Australia. His stock gained
leading positions at many important
shows, and he was always prepared to
give advice and assistance to breeders
of Friesian cattle, by whom he was
highly esteemed.
Captain A. Gray, who is retiring from
the service of the A.U.S.N. Company, is
well known to passengers on the Aus
tralian coast. He made his first visit
to Australia in 1887 as a boy in the sail
ing ship Iolanthe, which sank another
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Hobson's Bay the same year. In 1902 he
joined the A.U.S.N. Co., at Brisbane,
as third mate, and since then has had
charge of numerous vessels belonging
to that company.
Mr. D. Lindergen, secretary of the
Swedish Chamber of Commerce in
Sydney, has jurt returned from a visit
to his native land. He states that he
found considerable interest evinced by
business men in Sweden in the Com
monwealth, but it was generally con
sidered that Australia's high tariff pre
vented increased trade. He thinks that
wool, in the future will probably be
purchased by Sweden direct from Aus
tralia rather than through London.
Mr. Edward Coulson, the Grand Mas-
ter of the United Grand Lodge of
Mark Master Masons of Victoria, has
just been installed as Grand Master for
the 36th time in succession. Mr. Coul-
son, who is a native of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, after some years at sea, went
gold-digging in Australia. Then he
started storekeeping at Everton in
Victoria, and had the distinction of
having his store robbed by the Kelly
gang. He was also present when Ned
Kelly was wounded and captured at
Glenrowan.
One of the best-known breeders of
Jersey cattle in the Commonwealth,
Mr. F. Bidgood, of Wodonga, died last
week. For many years he was a promi
nent exhibitor at all the big metro
politan shows, and he did a great deal
to advance the popularity of Jersey
cattle in Australia. He expended large
sums in importing stud stock of this
breed, and among his most recent im
portations were two Jersey bulls and a
cow. One of these bulls secured the
championship at both the Melbourne
and the Sydney Shows.
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the School of English Church Music,
is visiting Australia later in the year at
the invitation of the music commission
of the Anglican General Synod of Aus
tralia. In accepting the invitation Dr.
Nicholson, who is coming at his own ex
pense, stated that his aim would be to
spread a feeling of brotherhood among
church choirs, and to link them up
through an association with the School
of English Church Music. Whilst in
Australia he will do unpaid work for
certain choirs.
Mr. George Cathie, a member of the
firm of Wilke & Co. Pty., printers, of
Melbourne, has left for the United
States on a health trip. He 3s a life
member of the Victorian Football
League, and is remembered as an old
player of the Melbourne Football Club.
He is regarded in football circles as one
of the soundest administrators in the
game, and was the pioneer of the move
ment to provide iooiioau players with
numbers, so that they could be readily
distinguished by onlookers.
Mr. J. Hall, who has been appointed
to the char°e of the Presbyterian
Church at Wedderburn, Victoria, has
had preaching appointments in this
State, as well as in Western Australia.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, he
served with the Royal Scots Regiment
for three and a half years, and spent
two years in France during the Great
War. durinsr which he was awarded the
Military Medal for gallantry in the
Amiens sector. He has seen slum ser
vice in Glasgow, as well as in Melbourne.
Dr. Graham W. Scroggie, a leader of
the World-wide Evangelical Society of
Mildmay, Louden, has come to Aus
tralia to conduct an evangelical cam
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ity degree at the Edinburgh Univer
sity, and entered the Baptist minis
try 35 years ago. He has held many
important pastorates in Great Britain.
The aim of the mission in which he is
engaged is to brins the various religious
denominations closer together; to pro
mote intelligent Bible study and
prayer, and generally to deepen the
spiritual life of the people.
Captain J. S. Cowland, of the Angli
can Church Army in England, is com
ing to Australia to become Field Sec
retary of the Australian Church Army,
which is about to he established in the
Commonwealth. A training home is to
be established in Newcastle, New
South Wales, where Captain Cowland
will settle. The London headquarters
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out a small staff to train candidates
for the work. The Church Army makes
a feature of open-air services. Cap
tain Cowland was in Australia three
years ago, when he made enquiries in
regard to the possibilities of the work.
Last week Mr. Henry Cawsey. a for
mer superintendent of the Victorian
Criminal Investigation Department,
celebrated his 83rd birthday. Mr. Caw
sey enjoyed a high reputation as a de
tector OI Clime, ana. iu was nc vhw wo'
chiefly responsible for bringing to jus
tice Frederick Bailey Deeming, who was
executed for the murder of Emily
Mather, at Windsor, in the early nine
ties. The investigations by the police
led to the discovery that Deeming had
previously murdered his wife and chil
dren in Lancashire, and had placed
them under a cemented hearthstone, m
the same way as he did Emily Mather.
Mr. E. H. Gallagher, of North Carl
ton Melbourne, enjoys the distinction
of being a regular correspondent of
King Boris of Bulgaria. They meet
on conunvn grounds as naturalists, ana
in his latest letter the King wrote ex
pressing his appreciation of some Aus
tralian nature books which Mr. Galla
gher sent him, and saying that he was
much interested in our flora and fauna.
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Australia, and some time might do so.
King Boris is said to be a conscientious
ruler working harder than the average
Bulgarian business man. From 9 a.m.
till 5 p.m. usually, and often till mid
night he may be found in his office,
for he conducts his own correspondence.
He has established a museum at the
royal palace at Sofia.
The arrival of the German steamer
Justin from Europe, a few days ago,
called to remembrance an interesting,
if somewhat unpleasant, experience
her captain had on the outbreak of the
Great War. The ship at that time
was called the Hobart, and when pass-
ing Cape Otway at midnight on August
10, 1914, her captain asked the light-
housekeeper by Morse code, "How is the
situation in Europe?" The reply was,
"All right," but it certainly wasn't
from the German point of view. The
captain accordingly steamed on,
entered the Port Phillip heads, and in
due course found himself and his ship
in charge of an armed guard. And it
was not surprising that he observed to
those around him, "Dot lighthouse man
say it vos all right, but now I know
it vos all wrong."
The Right Rev. 1j. s. ±s.empmoiiie,
Anglican Bishop of Polynesia, who has
been on a short visit to Adelaide, came
to bring the claims of his. work under
the notice of Anglicans in this State.
His diocese comprises dozens of large
and small islands in the mid-Pacific,
many of which he has not yet visited.
On his way back he will call at Ocean
Island and Nauru Island, two small
atolls of hard coral and limestone. near
the equator. Seven years ago he visited
the former island, but he has not. yet
been to Nauru. On several occasions
he has travelled on a British warship
from one part of his diocese to an
other. His headquarters are at Suva,
Fiji and it was necessary for him to
™mo +« AiiRt.rfi.iifl in order to reach
Ocean Island and Nauru. He is a
cousin of the Right Rev. J. A. Kemp
thorne, Bishop of Lichfleld. England.
It will come as a surprise to most
people to learn that a society has been
formed, entitled "The Ned Kelly De-
fence League," the main object of
which is to secure Kelly's boots, armor,
green silk sash, and other relics, and
restore them to his descendants. Mr.
J J. Kenneally, of Essendon, Victoria,
is the organiser of the league, which
has some 30 members. Mr. Kenneally
contends that the Outlawry Act, by
virtue of which Kelly's belongings were
seized, had expired on February 2,
1880 — more than four months before
Kelly was captured. Therefore he
was not an outlaw when he was made
prisoner. Mr. Kenneally has spent 18
years investigating the history of the
Kellys and has written a book on the
subject, which he claims will reveal
certain new aspects of Kelly's life, and
refute many unfounded rumors. He
intends to deliver a series of lectures
on the subject during the Melbourne
Centenary.
Constable Sanderson, of this State,
whose training of Alsatian dogs for
police purposes is known to most resi
dents of Adelaide, will have to look to
his laurels now that Mr. J. T. Reilly
a member of the New South Wales
police force, has come on the scene.
During the past week Mr. Reilly took
an Alsatian owned by him to Mel-
bourne, and gave a demonstration or
its powers in the presence of the Com-
missioner of Police, and a number of
senior police officers. The feats per-
formed by it were most remarkable. It
"arrested" a man by seizing his hand
and dragging him to his master; it
knocked another man down, and
caused a third man to fall backwards
bv suddenly throwing its body behind
the man's knees. It tested doors to
discover if they were locked, and finally
removed the receiver from a telephone
and barked into the transmitter. It
was stated that the dog, which is valued
at £150, no matter how hungry it may
be, will accept food from no one but its
master. The Victorian police are con-
sidering the question of purchasing an
Alsatian: the New South Wales police
already have three.
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