'Mac" junior, when he landed in Chnstchurch, a compara tnelv callow youth, took to the supple ]dck too, as a pupil teacher, went in for mime all the time and formed amateui opera companies whete\ei he could get material. He pursued the fleeting schoolboy in Otago, got tired, and went home to have a Took at Laigs Bay, but, after eight months, he wanted to see how the Canterbuiy amateurs we're getting on, and to strike up an acquaintance with schoolboys once moie * * * He found that he »as too much of a free lance to stand comimtteedom He tried a httlo journalism in a desultory sort of fashion He went away with Phil New bury during that tenor's tour as solo pianist, and no musician from Concertina Jack to Gerardv ever asks "Who is McLaughlin?" ''Mac" is at present leader of St. Joseph's choir, in Buckle-streeit. Without any instrument at all ho is perfectly at home on the platform, as you would believe if you had heard him rebuking the Empire Bazaar Philistines for making a row and

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Ban oa Berthald, the teuoi \ibiato, who was here with Mi. Musgiove's. giand opera company, and won the heaits of the ladies by Ins handsome appeal ance m the Wagneiian operas, is said to have devoted all the money he eaa nod during the torn to the New York Christian Science (.'lunch. In fact, thc-\ co far a,s to sa\ that Ber thald came out to the colonies solely foi the purpose of earning the money foi the church C'hnstian Science is faith hciahng wilt large " During his sta\ ir Melbourne, by the way, Berthald en deavoured to give the cult a lift by ad \ ocating it in letters to the dailies But w hen his throat w ent back on him for a time he went straight to a healer who owned the orthodox kind of diploma * • * Which lathei lemmds one of the stoiv about the Wellington lady who was troubled with a cataract in her eve. She tried faith-healing in the incipient stages of the malady, hut when it got troublesome, she rushed off to the spec ialist We forget for the moment whether it was McKenzie, Van Slyke or Martindale Kendall. At any rate, he scored rather neatly when he heard of her faith-healing experiment's. 