Pars about Notabilities.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 13

Pars about Notabilities.

When Queen Victoria's coronation took place it was discovered that the coronation ring was made too small for her wedding finger. When the archbishop placed it, as a sign of the sovereign's wedding to her nation, there was considerable difficulty in getting it off again—an omen of her long reign. Another peculiar feature of this official trinket was that she kept her coronation ring always at hand. Hence, it rarely, if ever, appeared on show when the other coronation regalia were exhibited to the public. The long, wiry man, with the keen, shaved face, and the grizzling hair, who is Mr W. K. Vanderbilt, and the winner of a record Grand Prix of £12,000, is essentially a Parisian sportsman (says the "Pall Mall Gazette"). His training quarters are at St. Louis de Poissy, and his brood mares are paddocked at Villebon; every horse that carries the white and black is French-born, and Alpha, Prestige, Maintenon, and the less fortunate Sea Sick 11. are evidence of what may be made of them. Northeast's win in the Grand Prix will be appreciated by a wider circle than usual, for £800 of the stakes will go to the poor of Paris. Bar has lately" had added ;o its practitioners another recruit in :he person of discount Tiverton, the only ;on of the veteran ex-Lord Chancellor. :he Earl of Halsbury. The other titled iractitioners at the Bar include Earl Russell, and there was up to a few weeks igo Lord Coleridge, X.C.. who is now aiown as Mr. Justice Coleridge, but )etter remembered by the public as the Hon. Bernard Coleridge. The most nobble barrister of le at the Bar is, of •ourse. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C. There is ilso Lord William Percy, a younger son )f the Duke of Northumberland, who is n Mr. Justice Channell's chambers, while luite a number of baronets, knisrhte. and 'honourables" are open for "briefs' 'in Lincoln's Inn and the Temple, London. Che Irish Bar has also its titled lawyers, md not long ago Scotland had a real Lord among the pleaders in the Court of Session. Letters of administration of the estate of King Carlos of Portugal, who was assassinated in Lisbon on February 1, have been granted to his widow Qu°en Amelie. The English estate o' King Carlos, who died intestate, has been valued at £16.fi01. By a bond signed before the British Consul at Lisbon, on April 14, Queen Amelie, Dr Vincente Manteira. advocate, and Senhor Fernlndo dc Serpa Pimenel. inspector-general, of the royal palace, bind themselves in £33.383 to Sir Gorell Barnes, president of the Probate Division of the High Court, duly to administer the estate. By the death of Dr Thomas Lambert Hinton, which took place at St. Leon-ards-on-Sea (England) in June, the Royal College of Surgeons loses its oldRst member and the medical profession probably its oldest member, too. Dr Hinton, who completed bis 100 th birthday on May 1 last, recollected hearing the result of the battle of Waterloo. In the year 1529 he jpined the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and served with that regiment as an assistant surpreon until the year 1846. Meanwhile, in 1833. he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. The Duke of Connauffht in June ;aw the nnniversarv of his fortieth year's ?P!rvice, his commission as a lieutenant if having (appeared in the 'Gazette" of Friday. June 19, 18f>8. In iue course the future Roy-1 Field-Mar-shal became a gunner, a hus?ar, and a Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade man, >f the Ist Battalion of which he was Lieutenant-Colcmel in the 'seventies. At rel-el in '82 he was Major-General of the guards' Brigade. The following year his Roy-1 Highness commanded at Meerut md later at Pindee, his Indian tour of duty endin-j as Chief of the Bombay Army. Portsmouth, Aldershot. and Dublin followed, succeeded by the InspectorOeneralship of the Forces, and on New Year's Day last he entered upon the new Mediterranean command, which includes a. bit of Europe and of Asia, with a 1-rge slice of the Dark Continent, from the Delta of the Nile to the province of Khartoum. An interesting septuagenarian is Lord Ruthven, who has just completed his seventieth year. The head of a. famous and ancient house, he comes of a race which fills a prominent place in Scottish history. One of his ancestors was an actor in the death of Rizzio, and another in the Gowrie conspiracy against King James VI. The fighting qualities of the Ruthvens arc as notable to-day as were those of their daring ancestors. While Lord Ruthven himself has been in several campaigns, having fought in the Crimea, the. Mutiny, and Abyssinia. his second son wears the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery in saving the life of a brother officer in the Cameron Highlanders when under heavy fire in Egypt; and three other sons fought in South Africa, two of them winning the D.5.0., and being mentioned in dispatches. Sir Julius Wcrnher, who seems to have good reason for not thinking so well of a receipt for bringing diamonds within the reach of all as hf , once thought, is, you would say, not an easily impressionable man. For instance, it is not unknown that the late Cecil Rhodes, as an idealist, failed to impress Sir Julius altogether. M. Lemome was more successful ; and Sir Julius's chagrin will be none the less poigna.it because he will be exempt from any inconvenience in haviing to pay for it. On the other hand, his late partner, Mr. Beit, also an unimpressionable man in some ways, was an even enthusiastic Rhodesian. Yet one cannot quite see Mr. Beit writing cheques for scores of thousands for diamond receipts in sealed envelopes either. It would be the height of presumption to try to improve on M. Lemoine's admirable formula for the manufacture of diamonds: "First catch your carbon, and then press it," but there is no reason why deserving persons should not learn how to make as much gold nnd silver coin as they may require. . The receipt is given on the puthority of Abraham the Jew, as delivered, in 1458, to his son Lnmech. It is most simple. A magic square must be constructed by the operator, after careful consultation with his guardian angel. The square is based on the words "Sequor"—money, "Keser"— a heap, and "MP*Har" —let it be forthcoming. He must place this symbol in his purse, leave it a short time, and then put his right hand in his pocket. There he will discover seven pieces of the money he wants.. He should not do this more than three times in one day. Any pieces of money not spent immediately will have an inconvenient habit of disappearing.