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PEEPS at PEOPLE
BREEZY
BUDGET
PE R SON AL
PARS
Phil Goatcher's in town.
Kelly the Mug is convalescent.
Robbie of Korrelocking's in town.
There's a, chef named Disher in one
of Perth's leading hotels.
Jimmy Gardiner, M-T-i.A., was once a
local preacher in a "West Perth church.
Postcards from Fred and Mrs. Gra-
ham (the latter Nellie Dent), now
showing in Cincinnati, U.S.A.
Boh Crawford, of Bridgetown, lilias
gone to Geraldton to recuperate after
the recently-settled libel action.
Reg. Harrison has given up motoring.
It is a lot healthier, and rubber heéls
aren't nearly BO expensive as rubber
tires.
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Piper Findlater, the V.C. hero of the
Dargal Heights battle of 17 years ago,
is fighting with the British forces in
France.
The Consul for O.T. Chillie has sent
a letter to his Government in South
America, warn i us them against in any
way helping, aiding, or abetting the
Germans in their diabolic designs on
the ships of the Allies. John Henry
was a very angry Consul when it was
reported a few months ago that cer-
tain German warships had been vic-
tualled and coaled with* the connivance
nf Chili, and threatened, if the offence
were repeated, to design and send his
papers back.
Since the famous Publicans' Picnic
to Point Walter ten years ago there
have never been in one place so many
Westralian bungs as gathered at the
Emu Brewery last "Tuesday to witness
the amalgamation of' that' enterprise
with the Stanley. ' The publican who
had the shortest distance to travel to
reach the liquid rendezvous was John
Glowrey, of the Palace, the longest
distance wayfarer being Gibbon, of the
Australia Hotel, Sandstone. It took
the Palace Hotel proprietor 2min. 7sec.
to get back home; mine host from
Sandstone, reckoning up the wash
aways on the Midland and other lines,
estimating he would be four days'in
reaching his caravansary. Joe Mona-
ghan, of the Orient, M'Mahon, of
the Newcastle Club, Moylen, of
His Majesty's, and Dan Mulcahy,
of the National, alt of Fremantle,
took half a day to db the return 12
.mites, several soaks being called at
en route to see the windlass and buc-
kets were in good working -order.
Manager Williams, of Boan. Bros., la
an enthusiastic music-lover, and rarely
allows an afternoon to pass without
enhancing the flavor of his afternoon
Pekoe with a couple of numbers of the
roof-garden orchestra.
Answer to "Carbine": It was Mr. W.
E. Dakin, the handicapper for the
W.A.T.C., who died in Perth. His
brother, P.F., who acted in a_similar
capacity for the V.R.C., died in Syd-
ney, and his body was sent on to
Melbourne for interment.
Well and strong again through no- |
thing but hard yacker in the Wongan |
Hills hush, Uncle Abe Myers, erst of j
Toodyay, and erster of Myers* Sauce j
and Pickle Works, Perth. Uncle Abe j
as soon as he gave -up the strenuous ¿
life of manufacturing condiments, j
Jams, and other, adjuncts to table :
d'hote, fell into flesh and was told by I
the doctors" that he must either take
on very hard graft or an" invalid's !
couch. After some time Uncle decided j
on hard graft, and is now a picture
Of middle-aged manhood, who can ¡
take a hand at the plough, harrow, ¡
axe, or reaper, land can still pot a'
rising turkey or running 'roo with the
best. In former years U.A. ' was a 1
champion pigeon shot and billiardist, ;
andi can still get them with the first '?
barrel or do the long journey with a :
lot of local champions. . His farm up
on the Wongan Hills line is a picture,
and was carved ont of the wilderness
by nothing but the grit and hard graft
of Uncle Abe Myers and his nephews!
The most cultured and fluent speaker
in the hops-and-malt industry is Man-
aging-Secretary R. S. Forbes, of the
Emu beer factory. Coming of an Eng
I lish-Irish family which emblazons ita
¡ sedan chairs, barouches, motor-cars,
and aeroplanes with a crest" gained
during the time his armor-plated an-
cestors swamped td Jerusalem, R;S.F.
is at all times a likeable sort, with
an easy eloquence, infinite tact, and :
untiring energy that win their way to ;
the commercial soul of things and i
make directors and shareholders know j
they have someone in charge who, if !
he couldn't command success, would
deserve lt. The last time this paper'
met R. S. Forbes in a working capacity
was when, acting as attorney for the
makers of the huge ' water-scheme
pumping engines, he handed a gold key -
to Lady Forrest with which she opened
the door of the No. 1 engine-house.
The next time <laet Tuesday} the same
Forbes handed another key (this time
a pen-and-ink one) to Acting-Brew-
ery-Chairman A. D. Bankin, with
which he unlocked the door that had
for so long separated two companies,
the Emu and Stanley./ .
The youngest skipper on the Swan
Biver is Captain Game, an obliging
and conscientious official in the Gov-
ernment Ferry Service. It is only a
few short years since young Game
was a deck hand on the Duchess and
Countess, and now he is a full-blown
boss tar-with a captain's ticket and a
smart uniform. He deserves his rise.
A Commonwealth literary pension
lapses through the death of Poet
George Matson, father of footballer
Phil and several other sturdy Aus-
tralian sons. For a long time the old
gentleman has been in anything but
robust health, his advanced age (72)
compelling him to husband his none
too-plentiful strength. In bygone years
the now late Mr. Matson was editor of
the "Port Adelaide News," and after-
wards of the "Advocate," also a South
Oss paper, and in all literary branches
was well-informed and progressive.
For a long time he resided in Cottes-
loe, Subiaco, and Fremantle, and had
on the morning of the day of his death
cone up to see his son at Blackboy Hill
Camp, the youth having recently en-
listed. On returning from seeing his
boy the old gentleman was seized with
a fainting fit at the Perth Central Sta-
tion, from which he failed to recover,
the doctor, however, certifying that his
death was perfectly painless. All who
knew him liked and respected him, and
he will be missed by many outside his
own family circle.
In Perth after an absence on end of
10 months at lils Dalwallinu farm, Phil
Goatcher, Australia's artist-premier
with the scenic brush.' There are few
cities arid big towns ih Australasia and.
New Zealand that don't contain some
specimen of the genius of Phil, some of
his drop-curtains being treasures of
art and well worthy of a place in many
metropolitan galleries. Phil wearied .of
the trouble of moving from Perth to
Melbourne, the latter place to Queens-
land, New Zealand, and other parts,
and settled down at the aforemention-
ed Dalwallinu, where he has a splen-
didly-appointed farm, ? which only ;
wants a couple bf good -seasons to re-
turn all that be has put into lt and a
bit ever. Phil has always been a good
Bohemian, and an hour spent with him
would considerably astonish the listen
«r, especially his journey from 'Frisco j
to New York in 1890-1. Leaving the
Ytrstnamed place with 10 dollars, he ar-
rived in New York a year later with
eight dollars, having in the meantime
travelled a vast portion of the South-
ern States, Mexico, and in the middle
of his pilgrimage was at Panama,
where is now the huge triumph of en-
gineering the Panama Canal. His
stories of painting saints in Mexican
churches, will keep for another issue:
Tenor David Lyle and Baritone-co-
median Pace, of the Dandies, have
taken on rifle-shooting trith the Leed-
erville Club as a side line to singing.
Each has signed on to join the forces
if wanted to fight against the Ger-
mans, and last Saturday Lyle tied for
the silver spoon with an old shot Lyle
lost in the shoot-off by only one point.
Are there any others?
Vosper is a rare name, and beyond
the co-founder of this paper and the
present caretaker of Point Walter we !
know of none of similar monnicker. j
F. C.B., said progenitor of this sheet, !
was born in Cornwall, 'England, and
to the last had the pronounced burr of .
that county. The most peculiar "thins
in F. C. B. "Vosper's vernacular was the
fact that, although a scholarly, well
read man, he pronounced in his na-
tive dialect several -words, and in the
word "capitalist" never failed to stress
the second syllable as "pit." The Point
Walter caretaker was for maui' years
chief steward on several of Australia's"
best-known coasters, and whenever
Adelaide Steamship Company W.
Moxon calls in a.t that pretty, recrea-
tion peninsula he never fails to have
a chat over old voyages with the said
V.
Apropos of the cabled reports of a
high German officer of the sunken
Blucher spitting in-the face of the Brit-
ish officer who went to receive him at
the gangway after he (the German
officer) was rescued from the sea, a
etory told by George. Portus 4n kind.
After the conclusion of the Boer War
G. P. was amongst the officers invited
to England to participate -in peace fes-
tivities. After a week in England
George and a couple of brother-officers
went across to the Continent, and
amongst other places visited Berlin.
Just before^leaving they were chatting,
in a café, and were discussing théir,
part in crushing Kruger and Co.,
when, as the trio stood up, an equal i
number/ of "German, alleged ladies walk- !
ed up to them and deliberately spat
in their faces, the rancor of Kaiser
Bill's telegram to Paul Kruger evident- I
ly- not having subsided. George and 1
bis pals in plain Anglo-Saxon told the
ladies what they thought- of them, '?
whereupon the sa.urkra.nt cavaliers of
the frauleins strode up and demanded 1
apologies. Portus and his two mates
-the whole three hefty with the bare
knuckles-at once dealt it out bot and -
strong, to the German males, several,
dozen marks' worth of glass, crockery,
and lager being rendered hors de com
I nat In the melee. Then the police
rushed In and ran the lot in, and lt
1 took George Portus and Co. al] they
cool<J do to get the British Consul to
secure their release. At it iras, it
cost them a fiver a-piece, but they
reckoned the woodeners they got on
to the swaggering, bullying subjects of'
Barmy Bill well worth the money.
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