ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

•.a Oilier, on Thorn the French Govmi ♦recently conferred the. Legion en iSK« « . first Gpvman pianist ifCl™ been so distinguished-

_. Czar of Ruse**, the closest guarded 111 monarch, is protected at night ef aD W conies of soldiers, includr&; members of the secret ie and a body of Cossacks.

n, Jerome Dwelly, who first demonlii the use of et.her as an anaes- ** in Fall River. Massachusetts, Tt'he did in a mimical ca.e in 1847, **&, I resident of that city. He is "Jin his ninetieth par but it was "J* until recently that he retired from Jrtivc practice.

Tie Sultan of Turkey is nightly .(did over by a very large number , Miers and councillors, who remain 0, .i?, tie neighbourhood of his bedroom •, jorning The Sultan changes his TlLc apartment oftener -than any •STionaK*. He has the choice of J score bedchambers.

The Rev. James CVHannay. a Ca-tboHc •ct ho has just been elected a canon ft Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, is 1 author of a number of interesting £! k - and has written a comedy, Svneral John Re -?-" pertaining to «=h life. hich will be introduced in Jndon by Cha-rlee Uawtrey. « p. Hod'ler. the great Geneva Jnter ' while sitting in the Cafe dv £\j Geneva, drew on the marblef ° la .table the head and bust of a SiW girl- The cafe owner, M. nWme has had the sketch cut out of Jf. marble table-top, framed, and hung. gsreral offers of £100 for it have been refused-

prince Henry, the K.aiser"s brother, delivered a speech at Frankfort, which, after an exhortation to all th« bouraois parties to combine against the Socialists concluded: "Let each German jjfa, be true to its lord, and let us all toother be true to our over-lord, the ■ German Kaiser." This has caused much jjwt in South Germany, where the utas are regarded not as the vassals, tot as federal allies of the Kaiser.

yiss Constance F. Gordon-Camming, tie famous tra-rcDer and author, -who iiecm tly celebrated her eeventy-fifth jjarrersary, spends much of her time corking for the mission to the Chinese Uind and illiterate. She began traveling in 1863, and was the first -white TDjnan to make any attempt at exploration among the Himalayas. For twelve years she journeyed, visiting many countries of the g-lobe. Her home % at Crieff, Scotland.

Every night the palace- at which. King George is sleeping is patrolled by nightwatchmen, who pas? along the corridors itamghout the night, inspecting doore aid windows. These watchmen wear (srpet slippers to deaden the sounds of &HI footfalls, and are specially trained to know exactly -what to do in case of fie. In addition to the night ' patrol, . ftere is always a sentry on duty outside the,-chamber in which, the King sleeps. ■-..

Bishop J- Albert Johnson, a missiongr/ in South Africa, undoubtedly preaches to the largest congregations in ftsirorld. In the Dark Continent he is hard by an audience Tanging from 10,000 to 16,000. The services are conducted outdoors, interpreters being used tomske the sermons intelligible to the natives, of whom only a small percentage are members of the church. Bishop I Johnson is a Harvard graduate, and has I leen in the missionary service since 1878.

ioTnske the sermons intelligible *to the natives, of whom only a small percentage are members of the church. Bishop Johnson is a Harvard graduate, and has been in the missionary service since 1878. Queen Olga of Greece, closely related io the Czar of Russia, is the only ■Toman admiral in the world. For years ■she has assisted Russian sailors who lave heeome stranded in Athens. Partially in acknowledgment of this generosity, and partly because of the fact that her father, Duke Constantine Xicholaieviteh, was an admira/1 in the Russian navy, the Czar conferred this aceptional honour upon the queen. He gsTe Jier command of the armoured OtU3er Admiral Makarov. The two wealthiest young people in Sgland, it is said, are now Sybil and Philip Sassoon, children of Sir Edward A. Sassoon, who has just died. The name of Saesopn has been a power in .money affairs for more than two centuries. The earliest known Bassoons were Mesopotamian Jews and the family's relation to Eastern finance has ten not unlike that of the Rothschilds in Western Europe. The two families aw related through the marriage of the late Sir Edward to a daughter of Baron Gißtave Rothschild of Paris. The Grand Duchess Augusta Caroline oMlecklenbnrg-Strelitz, a granddaughter of George, the Third, celebrated her 90th birthdiy in July i a9 t. Her Highness is tie oldest Princess in Europe, and still his an income which she receives as a Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. mis venerable lady, once the friend of Peel and Paknereton, is still in full enjoyment of her mental faculties, and her rich memories of great events and peat men make her conversation peculiarly interesting. Her earliest recolMions aie of the Court of the vanished ongdom of Hanover.

Tie late. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadoma. 'Mcd to .Jus g-rfta as a painter a capaat for business which does not always go ■mih. the artistic temperament. On we occasion a well-known picture-dealer *M purchased two small paintings from ™, awl after keeping them for some «a without succeeding in getting the {™» 'he asked, was compelled to sell wem at a loss. He wrote and tojd Sir ■ft i!? Cc of this ' a *iing expression of ™ Dope that in a future transaction we artist wonld remember it and make «*•£ to him - The 'unexpected reply '"Jen _ the. dealer received was to she "Mowing effect: "You haw lowered Zf F!f? 3n the market: there will be a ° further transactions."

. %d Devonport, the unpaid chairman "the hoard controlling the Port of iT™ - is described as a self-made man, J™ the principal rival of Sir Thomas JjJPwm, m the tea and grocery trade, as ° m the tea planting industry in Wtai and Assam. Hudson KearW by '™- he started life as a clerk" or, intt' £ an office boy in a tea house ' •SftJ. iS of L °n<ion at the age of ««. When he was twenty he deterI j™ ea to begin business for" himself as! mnT ™ ereha nt, and his firm, known and Ton, was thus belSli« as a °' ne " mai > contern, he acting as : "leaVt y * r, W «d pr - traveller and ■ til ov P T Now hp has establishments I SonS; . c world in Europe, America, S*aS ■^ Cn f a > Asia. Africa and Aus- ■ ! jj. ~" aM "» of course, enonnjnusly