ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

#::-•*— — I ' .j],, inrestment of the Prince of I i -'s fortune it is understood that the ffis havißg the aCvnce of Mr. Leopold Rothschild, who used to be consulted w tie late K-ing Edward. f most fashionable R oya ity is Queen X-ia of Spain. She is a keen follower Otoe la Mode, spends no less than C -'- 000 'a year on her frocks, and has all ! and hats designed in Paris. ! & Garles Ross, who is the largest mmoner proprietor in the United it odor- is well known for his mechanir%_suits, and the Ross "straight I "ji" rifle, designed by him is the i !_ard 'Weapon of Canada. At present f a « en<*aged (and does much of the rk wife his own hands) on a large Jrbo-t. This is being built in section- '■ \tlaiever else the Archduke Franz Tjn_rr_nd may have brought with him * o London he certainly brought a healthy Lnetite, writes Mr. Gossip in the "Daily aetcl," for he and the Duchess of flota-berg demolished a large piate of i, rea _ and butter and cakes provided with the tea laid out for them in the jijval saloon during the trip from Dover t0 Victoria. The Earl of Elgin, who is 64, is to jjjrrrMrs. Frederick Ogilvy, widow of a cjntain in .the Navy. The Earl's first irife died in 1909. He has six sons and four daughters. He was born in Canada, and has been Viceroy of India and Colonial Secretary. It was his grandfather .who brought to England the famous Elgin marbles. Seflor Gamboa, Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs, is not only a diplomat, bat-an author of distinction. He is a jjvefet, publicist, and -writer of. aenwiis, and one of his best-known Iw.orte'is 'his extensive memoirs of his diplomatic career, covering his service in England, Central America, and jnnroe.. He was born in 1864, and en- . jya] tie diplomatic service in ISBB. Ten 6 jecorations have been awarded him by feign governments. Dae of the best preserved and most „'eresti~g personages in "Warwickshire a'tie veteran erstwhile leader of the airoiltnral labourers, Mr. Joseph Arch, isio recently celebrated his eighty- ' KTerrt. 'birthday. On November 10, 1820, fe was -orn in the very house in which j & now resides, and it is an interest- I iw'aet that the dwelling ard adjacent >ard_i—the freehold of which was pur- . iased by his grandfather for £30—have | fen a family possession for more than 1150 years. I' The Empress of Germany is the bestJttssed woman on a European throne. 1 fie does not buy her dresses in Paris, } kit "-'Berlin, London, and Vienna. | Counting every item, the Kaiserin spends | ibont £2,000 a year on dress. The ] Queen of Holland is said to be the worst- ; teed Sovereign. In spite of this, she : manages, to spend about twice as much I en ler dothes as does Queen Mary. The ftimer spends about £4,000 a year, railst fie latter spends, on an average. ■Writ £2,000. ■ _Gss Dove, M.A., the first woman to j te lonriiiated for the office of mayor I in England, has failed to secure re-elec-ft %to the High Wycombe (Buekinjrhamsinre) Town Council after six years' serWfc in 1908 Miss Dove was selected cs mayor of High Wycombe, -but great h_«irrtin_. was expressed by the inhabited- After a heated debate at the coimdl on the day on which Miss Dove ElorMhave taken over the office (Noremte 9) a vote was caraied in favour oiaman as mayor. -.(*«•_» Mary, as all know, -Presses very ' plainly, and seldom fashionably. In fact, on inure than one occasion Her Majesty liasmde known her distaste for modern f-rions. Among the styles of which Her.Jlajesty does not approve are the %W skirt, the slit skirt, sleeveless wring gowns that are cut low both Jwi and front, and open-work stockmgs. Qneen Alexandra has always endraTonred to 'be more fashionable than Wi'een.li_ry. But even then she has pees accused by modistes of dressing j n a "dolly," austere style. Parisian society circles have been as™ffll~d by the announcement that the wrtat'-de Castillon de St. Victor has altered the famous Jesuit School of "tterDu Lac, transferred in 1882 from «m to Canterbury. Tbe count was ™" of the foremost members of the trench Aero Club, and in 1900, with the «mitdela Vaulx, set up a long-distance Moon-record by travelling from Paris wfieff in Russia. He was also the -rerdait of the Royalist Committee of ac Seme. .lb Duke of Sutherland Is a descen™*of no less a person than Robert Indeed, it was a toss up 3£ would be the Royal Family of ?°WU, the Stuarts or the Sutherlands. S| lad. two daughters. Marjorie |ptand the Countess of Sutherland. tie son of the former who r"*" first King of the Stuart line. j™ l nme the son of the latter was heir to the throne. How- /% the plague carried John Sufcherbefore the throne was vacant. Kinnaird, the chairman at the of the Football Associawith the Duke of Norfolk. 2?f" bonr in St. James's Square, the |™tK>n oi earing less for "the nice-rc.-ress than any peer living. Few .» Beet him in Pall Mall, where he femii S * en dail >' on his wav to a nd I.? |f bank in Pall Mall East, where *oald-• 5U ' 3 hoUrs like the veriest clerk. Jeiir says a contemporarv,»that fit* PeW o£ the United Kingdom, of an old-established bank, °''""er of a fine seat in Perthshire, in one of the most aristo»"iaf* 11areS m Lon<3on - to say nothing ji?. ffl °ld international footballer in nine finals for the English feabn 01 "™ Lot " ge ,lla6 a keell sense of j"*" He was in his happiest vein "« addressed the new students of J-ammgham University the other Rurally the students appreciI humorous reference to Univer--1 St OT 6 " At the close oi lhe a ddress I HjalfJ pointed °«t that degree day ft iit t • ent3 ' occasion, and when that I *ti_e?I Ed students veTe perfectly 1 hrnl it° make ' use of -""y remarks Ui "efin < c ' erelnoi " ial P art of the pro- ■ ■'• , <rße ireful," added Sir Oliver ''_L n y° ur remarks are really "iaj'j' f on *t make meaningless noises, J^J'Vt 11 ' i>ri " 12 ins truments of torture, t / Vj a *°. ur 1 own voices, but don't use m \ wfT- meajlß - There b no wit in |L i ';>- 4 't gives people the headache."