Personalities.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 7

Personalities.

HERB SIRA.USS ~ |||T may be said of Hen Richard Stratus §fg that he is a mus'ual lion who only SBS roars through the medium of the orchestra. No person could be" simpler ia tastes or in manner than the creator of ' Bin Heldenleben.' Although he has only completed his thirty-ninth year lately, Strauss has long been re-' garded as the greatest living German oomposer. His father, Frans Strauss, was ' the first horn player in the Mnnioh Court Opera House. At the early age of seventeen Richard penned a symphony, which Hermann Lavi successfully introduced, and afterwards the erratic, but generous, Hans von Balow f req uently performed the melodious serenade for thirteen wind instruments, Op. 7. Straws haß been con* dilator at Moimngen aud Weimar, as well as at Bayreuth and Munioh. s**l. Pauline de Anna, prior to beooming Fran Strauss, was a well-known opera singer, and it was for her the composer wrote many of his charming songs.

THE EiRL OP MAYO. His lordship is that rara avis, an Irish resident landlord. Born in 1881, he succeeded to the title in 1872, when his father, who was Viceroy of India, was assassinated while on a tour of the Andaman Islands, and has since devoted himself to the management of his estates in Eiidare and Meath. He is devoted aleo to the. development of the national arts and crafts of Ireland, a work in which he is ardently supported by the C mntess, who is a daughter of Mr Grarald Ponsonby, brother of the.fifth Lord Bessborough. They Lave no children,' and the heir-prasumptive ia Lord Mayo'B brother, the Hon. Algernon Bourke. "Algie* Bourke, aa he ia more commonly called, has had hia full share of the ups and downs which sometimes fall to the lot of younger eons. a.t 22 he gladly went out to South Africa aa a correspondent in the Zulu War, and was present with Sir iVederick Carringfcoa and Lord William Beresford at the finding of the body of the Prince Imperial. Oh hia return to England he became a hard-working member of the Stock Exchange. He unsuccessfully contested Claph'am in 1388.

NEW CATHOLIC ABOHBISHOP. Dr. Bourne, the new Archbishop ef Westminster, was a favourite of the late Pope, and last May, when passing through Vcnioe, he had a long interview with Cardinal Sarto, the present Pope, Born at Ciapham on March 28,1861. the new Archbishop received his early education at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, afterwards going to St Edmunds's, Ware, and St, Salpice's, Paris, and finally to Louvain University, In 1884 he was ordained priest, his first mission being at Blackbeath, On Ist May, 1896, Cardinal Vau.than .consecrated him Titular Bishop of Epihphania, and he was at onoe appointed bishop coadjutor to the Bißhop of Southwark, with the right of sue cession. A year later the great age of Dr. Butt led him to resign the bishopric of Southwaric, and thus Or. Bourne, when quite a young man, was called to rule over the vast diocese in which he had Worked throughout his priesthood. His appointment as coadjutor was quite unexpected, and met with much opposition chitfiy on the ground that he was quite an UQkcown man. As time went on, however, he became recognised as an able bisaop. A man of great energy, his clergy always found him easily accessible. His bearing is dignified and his countenance stern, but those Who have been brought in contaot with him describe him aa of a kindly disposition and very affable. He is credited, too; with the possession of much tact. The position of Archbishop of Westminster does not carry with it the right of elevation to the College of Cardinals, bat it may be regarded as almost a matter of course that the red hat will be conferred on the new Archbishop very shortly—probably at the next Consistory.

THE MACEDONIAN GABIBALDI. Gruyeff 893 ms destined to/play the part in. the insurrection in Macedonia that Garibaldi played in t&e movement which led to a United Italy. He bears the nickname of the Macedonian Garibaldi, and he has done mush to dessrve it. He is a born demagogue, who leads the niissea whither ke will. Ha ha 3 the knack oi making them view the past and the future through his own eyes. His eloquence is natural, his enthusiasm in. tactions, his appeal irresistible. ~,He is a sympathetic, fieey-eyed, brown-facad mm of about thirty-three year?, several of which were rich iu adventures. Ha first saw the light of day in the little village of Smikvo, tiia inhabitants of which rose up recently at his bidding, cut down the Turkish officials to a man, and then fled, leaving their houses to berazadto the ground by the enemies of their rase and religion. He received the first elements of his education in Saloniki, was then sent to Belgrade, where the Serbs vainly sought to make him forget his Bulgarian nationality, and he finally completed his education in Sofia, after which he returned to the land of his birth. Here he beet ma a schoolmaster, and therefore a revolutionist—for every teacher in Macedonia is apolitical agitator as wall—aad the leader-elect of the great revolution, if not of the annual spring rising. In time Gruyeff was appointed inapeetorgeneral of the elementary sahoola of Saloniki and Monaatir, and he might havd risen to a more important post had he not been compromised in the revolutionary movement arrested; tried, and condemned to be transported to A:ia Minor ia 1900. Only last year ha was pardoned, and brought bask to the teaching of grammar and the propagation of revolutionary doctrines. Such is the magic power of Gdyeff's eloquence that he has persuaded thousands, of hard-headed peasants to exchange their ploughshares and reapinghooks for rifles aad revolvers, and risk their lives in a desperate attempt to overthrow Turkish rule in Macedonia.

AN EMPBEOE AND H[S WOBK. The Emperor of Austria, who is much concerned in the settlement of the Balkan trouble, is. though seventh-three years of age, among the most active of monarohs. Id is bus recently that whan advised by the doctors to shorten his day somewhat r—for Francis Joseph rises at- four in the replied, • That is quits impossible. I oas only just get my day's work in as it is.' He was not much more than eighteen when he took the reins of government into his own hands in the Moravian fortress of Olmutz, whither the court had fled at the outbreak of the revolution in 1848, his uncle having been pressed to abdicate, and his father Dating renounced the throne. Since bis ascension his Majesty h'aji tad to bear many trials, but he delights in hard work.,