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Personalities.
The disastrous wreck of the Federal
took place during the Commonwealth
elections week. Omen 1
Alleged that a clerk in the Adelaide
Railway Department was somewhat
startled last week when a woman asked
him for ' Two excursion tickets to
Glenelg, and coupons, please.'
Miss Florence Crampton, a pupil of
Signor de Giorgio's, who sang at Mr
Nitschke's concert on Saturday, has a
mezzo-soprano voice of a rich quality.
This young lady was accorded a splendid
reception.
Nurse Dolly Daniels, formerly of
Miss Tibbit's Hospital, intends to
remain in the Sheffield Hospital, Eng
land, for six months, in order to obtain
an English nurse's certificate. No
Australian nursing diplomas are recog
nised by the London Hospitals.
Federal 'Hansard' staff consists of
Messrs B. H. Friend (leader), S. K.
Johnson and H. P. C. Robinson (New
South Wales), D. F. Lumsden (second
in command), E. B Scott, W. M.
Admans (Victoria), Oscar Bailey (S. A),
J. Burnays (Queensland 4 Han ard'),
and C. George (W.A.).
Melbourne Arena publishes the
statement that ' David Syme has made
up his mind to run a New South
Wales edition of the Age in Sydney as
soon as arrangements can be com
pleted.' There is a lot of Melbourne
capital invested in Sydney Daily
Telegraph, by the way.
Quiz has received the third number
of the Port Augusta and Stirling
Illustrated News, a monthly publi
cation edited by Mr P. J. Moran, and
printed and published by Mr F. W. W.
Taylor at Chapel Street, Port Augusta.
The letterpress is interesting, and the
many excellent collotype illustrations
would do credit to a big metropolitan
magazine.
The patriarchal Dr Jefferis, who is
retiring from the pastorship of the
North Adelaide Congregational Church,
which he founded, after 25 years'
faithful service, on Monday evening
lectured on 'The Federation of the
British people.' Dr Jefferis was one
of the first to advocate the federation
of the Australian States, and retires
from active ministerial work coincident
with the inauguration of the national
scheme.
Quiz was in error last week in say
ing that Mr D, J. Gordon, leader of
the Register staff, acted as Adelaide
representative of the London Express.
Young Rodney Cockburn, the smartest
journalist of his years, column-crowding
on the dailies, is still supplying the
local thunder to the only C. Arthur
Pearson's thrillful ha'porth. 4 Brains'
Cunningham, associate editor of the
Argus, is supposed to supply the
Melbourne matter.
One of many 4age' stories reaching
Quiz in connection with the census :—
4 A collector called at the house of a
Society widow, and on enquiring for
the form discovered the head of the
household had neglected to state her
age 4 Then, Madam,' said the census
taker, 4 shall I just fill in your age as
sixty-five V She was fair and under
fifty, and the threat had the effect of
getting the number of summers she had
wintered on this sphere.
J. B. Ronald, the brainy parson
politician, has resigned his charge of
the North Melbourne Presbyterian
Church, in consequence of being re
turned as a member of the House of
Representatives. Was over in Ade
laide recently, and is very sweet on
this city. He strongly believes in
excluding Chows and kanakas, and
would have us wear the blameless
flower of a white Australia in our
national coat. He is stated to have said
that 4 Chinese should be pole-axed or
poll-taxed out of Australia.'
C. J. Stevens, of the Register
editorial staff, says many kindly things,
no doubt out of the fulness of a good
heart. He is gaining a reputation
which will make him a dangerous rival
to Sir Samuel Way as a weaver of
eulogistic embroidery. His latest
effort was in wishing bon voyage to Mr
Evan Thomas, part proprietor of the
Register, who is now speeding home
wards. Mr Stevens 4spread' himself
in buttery metaphor over the guest
and left him enveloped in a half Le
Gallienesque phrase fantasy. It was
courageous of the leader-writer to say
what he did—more courageous to print
it. When Mr Stevens is not on the
job writing or saying well-meant
things there are terrible number of
superlatives looking for work.
MR. R. NITSCHKE, Adelaide's favorite baritone, leaving for England. Help
MR. R. NITSCHKE,
Adelaide's favorite baritone, leaving for
England.
Mr B. H. Friend, leader of Federal
' Hansard,' was third man on the
Sydney staff, and the other Sydney
siders are well-known State shorthand
sprinters. Mr Lumsden, who has for
some time been on the Victorian
'Hansard,' was formerly a Register
reporter ; E. B. Scott is a young Eng
lish journalist who married Annie
Besant's only daughter, came to Aus
tralia well recommended by W. T.
Stead, joined Melbourne Herald, and
after a while took a berth on the Vic
torian 'Hansard'; William Marlowe
Admans is one of the best journalists
on the Age, and occupies the respon
sible position of chief reporter on the
Daily Syme. Oscar Bailey, whose
phiz figures elsewhere in this issue, is
well known here as our smartest steno
grapher, and has a big reputation
amongst Sydney and Melbourne scribes.
Charles George, who is W.A.'s man, is
an English journalist who came out
under agreement to the Argus, later
joined Sydney Daily Telegraph, and
went West as a ' Hansard' scribe
four and a half years ago. All good
men.
C. R. Wilton, associate editor of the
'Tiser, has been a kind of indirect
legislative mascotte for the proprietors
of the various newspapers with which
he has been associated. He did
journalistic work for Messrs. Mather
and Ash, the then proprietors of the
Narracoorte Herald, and some years
after the late Mr Ash became a mem
ber of the S.A. Parliament; he after
wards assumed editorship of the M ount
Barker Courier, and its proprietor,
Mr C M R. Dumas, is now an "M P.
Proceeding to Melbourne, Mr Wilton
became editor of the Weekly Times,
and on the editorial staff of the
now defunct Daily Telegraph—Sir
Matthew Davies became a Victorian
ML.A. Keturning to South Aus
tralia to take a leading position on the
'Tiser, he crowned all his efforts by
assisting in the triumphant return of
Sir Langdon Bonython for the Federal
House of Representatives. Mr Wilton
has also contributed much 'copy' to
the Southern Cross—its editor, Mr
W. J. Denny, is a member of the S.A.
Assembly. It is about fair to stop
just here or Wilton's legislative
journalistic ' long arm of coincidence'
will be getting a mighty big grip on
Eternity.
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