ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

r - c Ferdinand, who adopted a iaUv fitted railway car as his headin the war. has taken a leaf out boi.k. in the Manehure ' r wilh anil:.-.- spread soaietrnies aU front of at least a hundred miles, Sftossian ? cner.ii h:ld ;l railway track JVdoVii in th# roar nf bis forces, and -, hi- *a.T from |..i;:u t.» point in a 5311 There was pr..ti.'.Uy no incident in £ «r which markci so dearly the gg, from •■h,..M l .tho new. •n-a-o is an inter<><tinp liltlo story L about just n..« ~f i air tVrdinand. frUce Bori.. to the Orthodox ~ he was at Lhantilly. on a visit b % uncle. Ihr l>u. a-Aumale. "I "V (." the Due said, in ihp course -nv,rt yourVsomo day?" the I'rince re- •™, when: "I don't kno-w p when, but whenover it is it will f sc --.. --Where ?'" "At St. Sophia, CoEStantinople!"

Kazim Pasha may now t>oast that he ta done what il « S never vouchf»d W Moltke to do. On reading an ■"Zjl «-hich compared him with all Sfereatest of the world's captain... , ile-Gind.>r and Caesar down to 1-ie.d-Marsha. yon Moltke -rsed- ">"0- f lO - ! hare n0 n ? ht to Spared with such illustrious eon,Anders, for I've never in all my life landed a retreat -at once the cs t difficult and dplicate operation of All the same, the remark implied jsnbtle compliment to his own military genius.

Tfce enoaeernent of Miss Howard, the eldest inWchild of Lord Stratheona. in Lieutenant .lames Bnller Kitson, of Hjs Majesty's ship Kin? Edward VII., ? 0 { more" than ordinary interest, as ter mother, the wife of Dr. Howard, ■3 Lsrd Strathcona's only child, and the heir by special remainder, to his peeram, - Lord Stnxthcona. who is 92 years ffe . is one of the wealthiest men in ft, world. He is reputed to be worth arrthißg between twenty and forty afflions sterling so that, in the ordinirr coarse of events. Mrs. Howard will fee the richest woman in England, if not ia t'se world.

The Commander-in-Chief on the ileJiterranean. Admiral Sir Berkeley 3!Ene. who proceeded on his flagship to Constantinople in November to protect British interests, entered the navy when iii father was holding the same position, and he is the third member of lie Milne family to reach the rank of Admiral. His father was Admiral of ie fleet. Sr Alexander Milne, and as Sir Berkeley is only fifty-seven, he may Tst reach the paternal rank. He went tiuoosh the Zulu War as aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford, and was wounded at ITlundi, while he smelt powder again i icir years later, being present at Tel-el-Kebir.

The King of Roumania, -whose country lis a ireat interest in the war, was a young Prussian lieutenant when he vss chosen by the people of Roumania, forty-sbc years ago. as their Hospodar, or Prince. He accepted in the face of t'ae Powers, who had already held a and decidwl that the new :;j?podir shocki be s natire <af Rou:inia. Four fexn \iter hi'i elder h-other ras a c fee vacant tYrone < * Spans, wjtb the -Cfesctinfr of Prussia. It was this candidature which precipitated the war between France ami Germany. King Charles is a Catholic, whereas his wife is a Lutheran. This lady was a Princess of Wiei

There are some piquant stories to b« fraud in "Kin? Edward in His True Colours." by Mr. Edward Legge, one at tie most interesting, perhaps, being that stoch concerns Quc?n Victoria's plans for the mrrriagc of Kins: George to the present Czarina and their frustration. Apparently. Her Majesty had set her Mart upon King George", the Duke of York as he then was, wedding- the beadtiful Princess Alix of Hesse, who was ultimately led to the altar by Nicho- ™. H. On more ihan one occasion Her ifljesty definitely proposed to the late Sing Edward that the Duke of York Eloßld be pressed to marry- the Prints of Hesse. The late King, however, kd Terr decided notions regarding marriages of convenience, and he flatly decimal to enter into his mother's ftlans, aiding that each of his children was free to marry the man or woman of their Quire, and that he would be no party to coercing them in the slightest degree."

The Empress Charlotte, widow of "c ill-starred Maximilian of Mexico, jwther of Francis Joseph of Austria., is perhaps the most tragic figure in the ;?jal circles of Europe, and her health a now said to be giving cause for grave Watty. The only daughter of the fci Leopold of Belgium, she married the wlduke Maximilian, and is V said to sme extent to hare been his "Lady Mac- «'!■" Anyhow, on her husband petting Mo trouble in -66, she returned to fpepe to plead his caus* with Lonis who had been mainly instru"Katal in sending Maximilian to Mexico w found a Catholic Empire; and she—a of a King of France—may «said, to have flung herself at the «t of the -M an o f Destiny" at St uond, who proved, however, to be quite aaorable. His return visit to her fflffliant Majesty at the Grand Hotel frarig, was one of the most dramatic agents in modern history, and ended ? the Empress losing her reason. Since •aen.she has been lost to the world "••■a cbatean near Brussels.