ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

. c; r Aeroil'" 5 Irving, treasurer of the ' r ;' r Canada Lnv: Society, is now in his 2 ietH year, and deep le his great age r ]}■ erary day since ho was first ■'■ £a f2i in 1593. " Recently he wished to SCt was prevailed upon to retain n V^ ai thp - o< "'"' v "* srrcd

Only once in all hi? long career as a m ,aistrate extending over .a period of 27 SSffld the tat. Sir H. Curtis Bnraeli y > to enter the oases he tried each f'" Hb diaries show that, he tried altoiLr at West f/ondon. Marylebone, ftminster. ami »ow Street 200000 „-% and the Uwriek Theatre battle £, the on on, hr did not note.

c; r John French, who has just received W," baton at the hunds of the King, will 1* required to carry that emblem of the hVheet military command whenever he attends a Court. A licld-marsbal has to Imiea armed with his baton on full ffocewions only. Tie is also obliged *y> wear jack-hoots at State ceremonies, Court.-, but at lev.es these mconrement adjuncts, togetner with tho baton, arc dispensed wah.

cj r Louis Mullet, Assistant UnderRMietary of State for Foreign Affaire, w been appointed British Ambassador f Constantinople. Sir Louis de Pan ?h]let who is in his fiftieth year, entpraßhe l ; oreipn Office in 1888, becom•ne Third Secretary in 1890. He has held diplomatic appointment* in Brazil Rome ll& Cairo. From 1002 to 100,", he was precis .writer to the Marquis of LansLrae, and during tho two following vcara lie was private secretary to Sir Edward Grey. He has bi-i-n an Assistant jjnder-Secretary of State for Foreign affairs siEL-c ISO 7. A knighthood was conferred upon him last year.

When Dr. Page's appointment as •American Ambassador to the- Court of st 'James , was announced some surprUe. TO caused in the I'nited SU tes, as it wa s ocnerally expected that his namesake,* Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, would jecei've the appointment. The latter, however, has been appointed American Ambassador to Italy, the announcement beinf officially made on .Tune 1!'. Uke (be Ambassador to (ireat Britain, Mr. T. jjl Page is a, literary man, and one cf the Jaost ominent of America's novelists. Another novelist. Mr. Meredith Nicholson, has been appointed Minister to Portugal. Mr. Nicholson's books are well known, the most popular being "The House of a Thousand Candles." "The Port cf Missing Men," and 'The Lords of High Decision." -

The nevre that a family event, of great interest to the Duke and Duchess of Koxtairghc is expected is a reminder th-jt it was"only by a chance that, the Dukedom came to the present holder's ancestor, Sir James Innes JS'orclifTe. The fourth Duke of Rosburghe died without issue in ISOS, md then followed a famous peerage case in which the stakes wore a dukedom, barge estates, and .€ 100,000 in the i'unds. The case lasted .seven years until May, 1812. \rhtn the House of Jjords declared against two other claimants in favour of Sir James Innes Korcliffe, who accordingly became fifth Duke. The present Duke's marriage with JMiss May G-oeler. tlie remarkably well-endowed daughter of the late Mr. Ogden Goelet, of Newport, America, in Nove-niber, 1903, has so far not been blessed -with children, and the heir-presumptive is his Grace's brother, Lord Alastair lnnes-Ke.r, an exceedingly popular officer of the Blues.

■That tliere should still be surviving a British officer, -who fought iv the historic tattle of Chillianwalla is surely a remarkable and gratifying fact. That famous fight took place over sixty-four years ago—on January 13, 1849. General de Berry, then a lieutenant, and now a nonogenarian. fought in that fierce encounter and is still with us. Chiilianwalla, it must be Teniembered, is one of the great events in the history of British India. Jt was part of the struggle -wiu the f>ikh-s, and their final overthrow led to the annexation of the !!rcat Punjab territory. General de Berry participated in Radoolapore, Chillianwalk, and Goojerat, the deciding fight. In the Mutiny struggle he commanded the hill station at Murec, and gallantly held it against revolting tribes. Subsequently, by command of Sir John Lawrence, .he raised two Pikh battalions at .Lahore and marched through turbulent, regions in the. CVwnpore district —• tie base of Lord Clyde's army at the ntge of Lucknow. There remains, also, W believe, Mr John Haniey, now residh in Manchester, S2 years of uge, who Ws in the band at Chillianwalla, and ttentually became drum-major.

' One of the mo3t interesting figures in &glish politics ie without doubt the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the &gW Hon. David Lloyd George. tt' 'in Manchester in" 18G3. son '; ..the late William George, a wcrjoui schoolmaster, he started hi« at the Llanystymdwy Church ™»ooL At the age of 21 he'took up J* profession of solicitor, nud started J 8 1890 the career which wae to earn ■» Trim great distinction, when lie was Wed a member of Parliament for wnarvdn, which seat lie .has held ever ?'■ fask came into prominence in -when he vigorously opposed the wnservative Government Land Rating 77 ""ring the committee stage of this ** ac came into conflict with the ™>r, and wa» suspended for refusing to ** th. Hou« wfcen v divieion °w, 3 lini u'vi camp f»~thor into public during the South African War, aid • • ■ Vaii ° pronounced opponent. *te^ TlSlt to Birminsham while the war tfo i O ,? 1, . 0^085 Id to a fatal riot, when •<CL ? , c ls 6aid to bavp bpen •L ° leave the building under W"* ° f rt P° !ire °'«<-«-- On the Go™!™^ 1 the Caujpbcll-Bannernuin S B ." the fall of the Balfour PS!; rat ' on itt 19 «S- he was created xSffi of the Board of Trad,, and 1908\e a Priv - V Councinor! In snoint (f ned furth " ioßonra by as- • role of Chancellor of the c v Whicb wpacity hn has bi!l « emvt great dist iiiction and the *«« fa?rt of , lni °. in Which he intro '*na cr( s e , flrst line the knd tax eaus f l,^ 6 a sensa t'°n- and iuci °g a bill x ° Government introHoi »= of l!i ? reJuce the P°» er of * he > fct & Wl J id, had rejected for ® l He »™ , m llist ory the financial r? for Wold 5 ° n lntrUmenlal in brin -" Ute iaauran the lntr oduction of ;- r^t£^ e t H ]s fearless and th = title 0f..;. as ca ' nied for him l ee "ait of , a I " meh °usp. George" on E «ofS Chliedeliveredinthe r***e& the Lords and brewer!