ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 188, 8 August 1914, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Wh hae occurred at Swansea js; & Bransbv wi,u ™!- ™ his /■'tixtea-r He wa«s one ot the most Biß . nfiril engineers of his day. (Hβ "fr twenty, yoaw vice-chairman of Bank of England and ffile- _ i t -is the intention of the Czar and U to pay * vieit to K ,, ? l *™ l during 2 r) . m w> autitmii. but the visit line postponed until next year. The ■•fih» J"" 0 ' , i™-P ' n 'health ?ffi. «id i= alrowt her normal self " . u>. 6U of melancholy onh- recurmraia,*tlie uv * $:rt'.nw interva^ - prince of Wales, though only 20 old i6-senior to many of the heir=The Czarevitch. J P?! *t»iice, is onh- in his tenth year. Z. Prince Humbert of Italy i a nine. 22*e Kopold of Belgium « thirteen. SSLoW of Kerw* T is ton - K m " A 1" j• > licirisseven. and Princess Juliana SSt'BWtolaiKhi is five. i*. Exchange .Company's eorrespondj t Vienna learns in- diplomatic circles •JVLeecond daughter of th P 'CV.ar is to prince °" f Rot) - *\"? •jfc Cr.ar's second daughter is STo-uj Duchess Titia-na. -who was SlTSone n > I8!rr (tMay " °- S -)- ---vLm Carol (diaries) of Roumairia. « JSiq* 6 * , of tlie rci ? nin ? : Kin S- and !s in Vβ OS* TearMr J "W Hobbs died at fob residence .tNmtay on Monday after a fcriaf ill- '■ a (, the age <» "°- ' Hw death r™"®* iwMberator faUure. which took place jhTISK. ,jlt. Hobb> wa* sentenc«l at tte'Old Bai'py ' t0 tw <-' ,, "e jeaW penal •mitiide and was released at the end rfjve Teare. He buUt WihitchaH Court, en ae'Thames Birfbaji'kment. the Hotel CWil/tte flotel Victoria, and the Hyde Park'.Hotd _ jllS.Daveloc-k- Ellis says: " One of rlie sweetest memories of my married life, i> tlat of seeing Jny husband mend hie own jjjjt" Cfow iwe ("Argonaut") have lettf a good deal of "Mr. -Havelock Ellis jitek, end we are beginning to wish that"we could hear from hrm. Indeed ■mtove heard so much of him that there can not !be much left to "teU. Bait we should like to hear his views on the nourishment of infants.

Queen A3eian<lra. who 'has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Alexandra, Erinceae of Wales' Own Yortohire Regiment, first liecame connected -with ihe Green Cowards —the •familiar sobriquet of 4*e Yorkshire !Repiment — in ■JSio, wien ehe presented colours to it. and shortly afterwante the xcgiment was officially gazetted "The Princess of Waiea's Own." Ber Majesty then being Prince» of "Wales. 'It continued to ibcar that title tSI, three yea-rs ajro, it -was itanged to the "'Alexandra. Princess of iWilee's Own."

A correspondent of a Jhiniirier, paper hiagi to light the unsuspected fact that the Duke of Argyll is partly o>f American descent. "Oris was the case also vith (tigs hte duke and with'&is< £&ther, the figbft duke. The mother of the eighth duke »is Joan Glasnol, daughter of John i;fa.*d, of liong Niddry, in East (Lothian. So mvk is known from the "'Peerages." IVliit is unknown is that John Glassel, Tho died an (East Xiothmn laird, came from Fredericksburg. in Virginia. He ¥33,n0t a Scoteman. ApparentlT his. grandfather was a £feotsman; but <he liimself iras a Virginian.

Mr. Roosevelt (says fhe "Saturday iftcricw") is a man not to 'be measured by an inch of tape. 'He belongs to the tiny minority ifor whom our common roles fail to provide. iHi, type wae never very common, and is now all but extinct. 014 Greece and Old Rome knew the.breed well. It throve in Renaissance Europe. Elizabethan England produced some of its finest examples. Its main characteristic is an insatiable appetite, an immense gusto for life. It -wants to taste ewy experience and it is not conlent with, a sip only, ibut quaffs the j?oblet in great satisfying gulps. 'It finds tqnal joy m a Court cabal, in the sober work of administration, in the writing of a sonnet, in the fighting of a duel. In fact, all Bf c is a duel to a, man of this kidney.

The Prince of 'Wales was seen in a "new light the other day—that of a aurse. Tkc arousing incident occurred it the lAidershot review, where the Prince and otticr cadets were given a little roped-in enclosure to -witness the review. Besides tins there -was an «i----"losure alletted to the wives and children of private soldiers, which was rather crowded. It was ■because of this ftat kiddies swarmed in under the ropes Md actually seated .tTjnb=elve« on the ™ccc of the Prince nnd his comrades. Jfne 'Prince, who remained -imrecopnieed V the majority, seemed to enjoy the aumour of the situation. On the maren to Mylchett. adds the Aldershot corre'Pondent of the ""Star." the. Prince P«ffri cheerfully at a. big briar pipe, re""nftg it occasionally to join in the woras with, which the cadets enlivened "c march.

Sir Charles Whittingham flmUey Douglas, G.C.8., who was appointed to succeed Field Marshal Sir John French as chief of the general «™> as the outcome of the Ulster noddle, has served with the British army, in fair or foul, almost wherever "has been engaged, for forty-five years. ."Jβ passed all his regimental service in we Gay Gordons," being present with . l "«m in Afghanistan (1879-80), at the actions of Charasiab and Sherpur, and sL«>rd Robert* , march to Candahar. with them also he shared the humiliai. lon ? f Majpba. His next service was at oßafcim in 1834. In the South African "Wipaign he was, first. Chief Staff Officer « the FiTst Division, in which he took .part in the battle of „ prsfontein, an< l wae afterwards proJjoted to .he Brigadier and a Column gi nee then h(1 has „„„,. Son t a* B "^ de an <l the Second Diviii. ra,* , derel,ot " has been Commander- . »- l *«ef of the Southern Command, and « present InepcctoT-Gcncral of the "Tpt" Accor ding to the London no,* r ap jt ie not to fill the •nU of the Forces, ■en will he vacant on Sir C. Douglas' wtD "J" , Until Sir lan Hamilton can JmTH! 01 " the Anti P o( Je3. No offer tibn ( « made to him ' bl,t his eplec " fttt-ir , iTOm unlikel y- A curious Wnra-ll * <mJqne system which now Armr the S ovcr nnient of the th o ,' !a { 9 the "Telegrapli," consists in tral nf 4i' V tbe P ree,,,lt In«pector-(Jen-i „ IFo1 Fow * 3 of not ,( « than £1000 clifl-r? T0 " gh hi " Promotion to the ffiJS f" efc \'P ot the ArmJ Council. " ll 'w of patriotic self-eaerificfl.