ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

c; r Joseph Lyons, England's largest -,-orir into tho i»usilifi_ years 621 'in a sm.i'l »••>•• lo furnish clean, .heap lunches to clerks. I hat laid tne foundation tfoi t .»n inJiwiry wn,oh " f.-eds 2,000.001' ol the innahitants oi London, and which on every working _v in tbe year cater* to 300.0(10 men, and children. In the.J-ujinrjw with i" s - r '° 3r - ,ni -' M *""' 3rc n " iT] y 18-"00 employees. The birth (f a son and heir to Lord andLaJyXonhlaii.iisa subject of great rejoicing in th Ms x.a mi Ihrrc wis ' -her a deartii of heirs to the Larldom Of Ranfurlv. as Lord Northland is an on i v s o n. and a lir=s; cousin once removed. Captain Thomas tlranville Knox. ™=next in the line of succession. The .-rival of the small masculine stranger was therefore of more importance than usual. From Mosco.v it i- reported thai <"ien- ,__] s-to-sel. the defend.-r or Port Arthur. ' h0 for some litre has I n partly paraded, has now nearly lost the poweti ot sneech. To add to tnese phvM.-al afflic•U- 1"*" financial P"-i ; i'"> hil3 ,f°J l . e . 1 bad to worse. He late v sold his irom oaa to ' , . ■ „- Ci ,untrv mansion and estate, but an offi- - r who served a* an adjutant lo (,en- ' 1 Stossel during the siege ot l'ort ijtbui has offered his former ehiet shelter and maintenance for the rest of his life, ••The King never drives a motor car."' ars Captain the Hon. Sir Charles \\ eniworth Fitzwilliam. the Crown Equerry, in an interview in the "'Mo, or. desenb- \__ tbc Royal garage. 'That does not ne cannot because lo- has taken a turn at the wheel, just tor tne sake of experience, on several occasion-. U Ler drives on the highway, and he has rc ver driven other than for the purpose „f merelv trving n car. On the other hand, the Prince of Wale* drives at Oxford and elsewhere, quite treuuenth. Wl-leMiss .Te*--ic Wilscn. the fniteJ c tates President's eldest .laughter is in IXr demand for V.M.C.A. addresses Ld the like, another daughter ot th Seriean President. Mw Margaret V.,1----son _denving the rumour oi a love affair _-avs _v romance i, -he world aud the* "wonderful things one .-an do in at' u P r two ambitions are re-peotivel> f; make, social centre work contribute ,„ make ber country a real d^ocracj „d to perfect her voice. Mr*. W oodro. Wilson ktelv replied to an mvitaUon ,o sneak on a woman's plat form that she found her home, sphere sufficiently large for occupation. Tiie oldest bachelor in the United Kingdom is Mr. Robert Cr.chton. of Utei-h-un. Surrey, who is just 101 yeaw 0 f A nati'.c of Perthshire, he went to WraJia over 70 yeard ago. and joined his brother and sister in running a sheep farm, or ■•station," as it is called m Australia. None of the three ever married, and at 'he end of :TO years they had accumulated enough money to return to England. Mr. t'richton enjoys splendid health for a man of his great ape. He was able to play billiards at 97. He i'i a teetotaler, a non-smoker, and can never remember bin ing taken medicine. He is descended from the family to which "The Admirable Cricbton" belonged. An interesting event- at the beginning <>i this month was the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of the King and the Queen, which was solemnised in the Chapel Royal. St. -la.mes's. half ;in hour after noon on Thursday. .Inly li. 1K513. The passage of time has made heavy inroads upon the cmigregai ion <if about 1*)0 persons, with Queen Victoria at their head, who -witnessed the ceremony, but of the Queen's ten bridesmaids, all. happily, are still alive. They are Princess Victoria or" Wales. Queen Maud of Norway, the Grand Duchess Cyril Vladimiroviteh of Ru.s-sio. the Hereditary Princess of Uohenlohc-L-angenbnrg. PrinccMS Aifonse d'Orleans-Bourbon. the frown Princess of Sweden. Princess Patricia of t'ounaught. Prtncess Victoria of Schleswig-Holste-in. Queen \'ictoria F.ilgenie of Spain, and Princess Louise Alexandra of Batten-berg. One of the chief themes of conversation just uow between the King and his uncle, the Duke of Connaught. is the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Canaia during the slimmer of next year, on which the Duke is uncommonly keen. (says an Engli.-h weekly i. The King has asked him to prepare a complete memorandum on the subject, in order that it may he con-Mered" in all it- bearings. The idea is that the Prince should he accompanied by his brother, Prince Albert, and that" he should he away some six months. But the que;. - ion of the two going together will need to he rather carefully considered, for tbe larki-h propenalties of the younger brother, and his hail-fellow-well-met way with everybody have a tendency to put hi-- shyer and more reserved brother into the shade. So at present the scheme i- being received with some misgivings in the very highest quarters. Ex-King Manuel, who is to be married to Princes Augustine Victoria of Hohenzollern. his been provided by tes-s-m ringers an 1 other,- with many potential' brides, and in February. 1!»09, ahen he was still ou the thr >ne of Portugal, it was o\cn officially anBiunced in Lisbon that he -a as betrothed to Princess lieatrice of SaxeCoburg, a cousin of King (leorge. but this fell thrnugh, because the princess Ja* a Protestant. Since his deposition it ha,, been annoitneed that he was to marry the daughter of Don Miguel, pre tender to the Port throne, and th_ unite the rival royal ,|aini-. The pnntess whom he i- actually to marry is a distant relative of the Kaiser, and s a second cousin ~f her prospective ansband. Her grandfather. Prince Leopold 3t tlobenzollern. was the innocent cause of the Franco-Prussian war of IS7O. He was chosen by the Spanish Govenment to be King of Spain on the tt-pulsoa of Queen bsabella. The KmP«or Napoleon 111. in.-istcd on the ■nthdrswal of the Prince, .uu\ his loghBc6.=. w ,th ihe assent of King William of Prussia, withdrew his acceptance of w tiucne. Not satisfied with th.w. demanded guarantees against a *>y futire candidature, which the King 01 Prussia refused to give, and war foiSTrt A liV "'- T c " n t"versy has been rted tr, the attest ion whether the i-nnass Augustine Victoria .? to be " ]| «i quten. Some of the German experts on c orjrt q Uest j ott3 declare that th I on '. v as a duchess, with * tide rf ro y a ] hirrhness, while oihens nised"ii-• as -^ anu ''' ia ' no ' r0e0.5 p„ . ''' ieposition from the throne of and retains the titles of king majest;. even ai those courts whose „p p me - m ha - p "llicialiv recognised ™ Repubic of Portusal." his consort W ""are tjis cot_-te:-v'title.