ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 34, 8 February 1913, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

\nseio Sa-rt-o. brother of the Pope, has j Io!i2 been postmaster a-t <irazie. in the 1 province of Mantua, at the salary of j,| j day. In recognition of his long faithful nervier* to th-e postal de■puriwent, the Italian Governm<»n-t has ju< awarded him a grant of £7. He is , ,-S rears of age.

timK>r Bert'ilini, honoured as tie tir-t Ltaliau Colonial Minister to be .Wnuxl. wae formerly .Minister for PuW Works. Thi- creation of tone post be*n by the recent war fctween It-aiy and Turkey, and as soon y seeirw pnu lii-.il Sajrior Rwolini will jjjje over administration of Tripoli jj.j CVrenaicn from the Mini«?ters of War 2.811 .Marine. Onera.l M* , nopal, who will take office next May a> In -.-uk-nt of Cuba, earned jlis title in l-lw liei.j. proving himself a darinc and resourceful leader in the struggle ag-.iirir-t Spain. He is to the point, an administrator r.uher than an omtor, and hi* wiry trajne to knon- n-o farf-igue. He U managing iiire-."tor fox the Cuban-American Suga. (Tompwrr, which operates a.n immense plant. Prince Guetavus of Denmark, regarded 8c a strong rontPn-jer fo-r t-iie nebulous iibaaion throno. is th<> sixth child of the late Kina of Denmark, and a brother of -the reigning king. King George of Greece is his uncle, and the Dowager Queen of England his aunt. Prime Giistavue w quite young, having been iera in ISS7. At eiLr'ntecn he entered the army, lie is now a. li-f"iitena.nt in the Life Guards. ;<nd 'has lost none of the portiin*«d «hkh once trained for Mm -tie name of '"the royai fat boy." The Maharaja of Pajina ha-s been married to Kimvari Shri _VLanh;ir Kunvarba, aeed iO. only daughter of the .Ma.h-aiu.ja o! Bhavmagar. The ceremonies and re-loicin-jis were on a jrresLt scale, se-ven ■: lame camps being provided for the Priuewi. high oi&jiais. and other g-ueste. The Maharaja's wedding dowry to his daughter consisted of jewellery, ornaments, ajid worfUt and £6.1)66- The bridegroom, who was educated a*t Mayo College, Ajmere, was born in 1593. and has not yet received fuli ruling powers. Known as John Rockefeller's nanigter, the Rev. Charles F. Aked, m»v pactor of tbe first Conaresational Church of San i-rancisco, ha*s niade himeelf a-n American citizen. Mr. Aked wae for- j merly a well-known and very popular I preaci er in Liverpool, and a London! np7>!~}iaper sent ham a cable, asking him why he had taken thii step. No doubt the dispatch asked him to cable LOOO words, bat it reached him in this form: "Please cable us 1.000 reasone why you ] have become an American citizen And ihis was Dr. Aked'e reply: "Have no time lor euch nonsense." One of the curiosities of the House of Commons, very rareVy seen, was Erie I>ras. for many yeare members for a Dorsourhire borough. Once, ait a general election, on the day previous to the nomination, he put out the following address to hie constituents: "Electors Oif Warpih-am! I understand that come evildisposed person has been circulating- a xepoTC that I wish my tenants, and other persons dependent upon mc, to tote according to their conscience. Thiß is a dastardly lie. calculated to injure mc. I hare no wish of the sort. 1 ■wish, and I intend, tihat these persona shall vote for mc." There were two quaint beouests in the Till of John Dipple, a licensed victualler of Leytonstone (Eng.), who died in October last leaving estate worth £25,799. He left two earns of £250 each to the treaaireiß of Leyepring and Leyton Lodges of Freemasons, of which, he bad ■ been a member, on trust for investment, - the proceeds to be applied in providing ar silent toast to be proposed and drunk >o Us memory at the annual installation of the worshipful master of each lodge. If for any reason the bequest sfoail be held to be void or inoperative, then the money s to revert to the lodges absolutely"; »nd if or when the lodges are dissolved, ™™ J 1 «to be divided equally between the RovaJ Masonic Bene*olfint Institution, the Royal Mawmic School for Girls, and tie Royal Masonic School for Boys.

Sir Bufus Isaacs, the Aittomeywho has just celebrated hie ater wedding, has had a romantic ew«. For some time he served before ""« maat on a tnamp steamer. During *c penod of life he had the exciting «?enence of being captured by Chinese" £"*H3, and was made 40. work in the ifLlf WB9el in tie tro P hs - MMcame a. mernier of the Stock Ex2*f' 'hieh he abandoned .for the Bar Sγ R 6 tl™* a «Weved a great euel iTfe^ c Ie at *** Bar- Be^re barrister, 'with tbe of the of the ParBar. Mr. Balfour Browne T* M £4 °' ooo^D one W t % ttat Sir P gtCre ne ' rer exce «ied

*£ m Tsar,S oni ? brother . Michael, CsS^ 0 marriage debars him CiSrt? 011 •* u,e throne - and who Wt am ? from all his Wfel a XL d d "oLve on his Imperial Yi adjniir> who> howewirj - m _ Vv ch£f S^° aS dis P leasur e of his «c of tk? Dum 7™g the divorced <* S«*£ of the Grand Duke * a^^?^ 0 ,better known to fct£ c «* Edinburgh. Cyril's U n?i r ' the Preient Taar ' s 7Z r \WM b - V far ab) est of C *X and the most mon - *A Jf L t S aVe come t0 ** associ - >lat iT? name - n connection with fctfcr P aS the " Red Sund *r of dtiJl °- c most things ««e kind man On £ £ iST°°J ' ladlmir ' thoU Z h normally £» , aDd ° f the St Petersburg troops fi«s*d. to be confined to bed with a *li*l^* khl dLi^se - Ws *om- £* Velikschkofj. of the Guards. So the Grand Duxe having ordered «ssW, OOp3 }° fire 0Q the Gapon pro--1 "Jsts, he was horrified when he j. « the sound of musketry across the itl r °, m his P on the Neva, and Pa, c dls Pa-tched his ade-de-camp. Count fliasr~ <^c : eended fTom the Scotch Macte;; - s 0I Sw eden—to stop it. He him-}tti-jrr ards f r lleilr,l with the utmost ShitL 0,7 he had been orbited, or. rather, with the massacre. '