ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 15

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

s Airs. Katherine Macquoid, the novelist, has celebrated her 91st birthday. Mr. J. Keir Bardic, M.P., has suffered a slight paralytic seizure. He is recovering. Lord Methuen has been appointed Governor of Malta in succession to General Sir Henry M. L. Bundle. The Queen sent a shawl to Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson, of Swaffeham, Nor- - folk, who has six sons serving with the colours. Queen Alexandra has given £25 for the assistance of unemployed women journalists. Mr. Ellis Griffith has for personal reasons resigned the Under Secretaryship of the -Home Office, and is resuming his practice at the Bar. The late Mr. Alexander Elder, one of the founders of the Elder Dempster line, gave £2MOO to found a Chair of Naval Architecture at Liverpool University. Sir William Osier, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, is going to the front with the MeGill University (Montreal) Base Hospital. Sir Max Aitken, MP. for Ashton-under-Lyne, has been appointed a* "Eyewitness" to accompany the Canadian) troops on the Continent. He will take' the rank of major. Dr. J. Bcott Keltic, secretary of the' Royal Geographical Society, has been awarded the Cullum Gold Medal of the! American Geographical Society as a re-1 cognition of his services to geographical science. Blr Samuel Hoare (73) was for twenty years Conservative M.P. for Norwich, retiring in 1006. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1904-6, and president of the Equitable Life Insurance Society. One of the last letters written by the late Commander Loxley, of the Formidable, was addressed 'to his old nurse, Mrs. Neal, at Hanging Houghton, with a Christmas present. It stated: "I have only Been mother once, for about ten minutes, during the last two years." Professor Henri Marteau, the famous French violinist, it is now discovered, has been a prisoner of war in Berlin since August. He was arrested at Lichtenberg while playing at a concert. Two yean ago he gave up a lucrative position in Geneva to replace Joachim at the Berlin Conservatoire. Rev. Lauchlan Mac Lean Watt, of St j Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, is at work in the V.M.C.A. camps in France. Mr. Watt, who is well known as a poet, is also a skilful player on the bagpipes, and he is delighting the Scottish soldiers at the front with his selections on the national instrument. The death of Lord Worsley, who .was-" killed in action on October 30, which is now confirmed, is peculiarly sad, as apparently autbentie news had been received by Lord Yarborough that his son was a prisoner in Germany. Great sympathy is felt for his parents and for his young wife, whose little son died almost immediately after hia birth. Lord Worsley was only twenty-seven years of age, and was vary popular. Lord Angus Kennedy, who was in the Royal Navy, has been invalided home, and is now staying with hia father In Scotland. He is the third son of Lord Ailsa. Culzean Castle, Lord Ailsa's Ayrshire estate, is one of the most beautiful places in Scotland. The history of the family is full of interest, the first Lord Kennedy having been a great Scottish statesman, and one of the six Regents during the minority of Jamas TIL The mother of this peer was a daughter of King Robert 111. Lord Kitchener, like his late chief, Lord Roberts, is notoriously averse from being interviewed. A journalist who pluckily attempted this task recently, says the London correspondent of ths "Manchester Guardian," relates, that, when asked for an interview, Lord Kitchener, briefly replied that he had never given an interview in his life, and had no intention of doing so now. The interviewer, by way of relieving the situation, asked him for hia autograph, saying that it would be worth having. "You'd better go away and make your own autograph worth having," said Lord Kitchener. Lord Ardilaun, the Irish philanthro-1 pist and social worker, died in January.' Son of the proprietor of the Guinness Brewery, he was from 1874 to 1880 onej of the MP.'s for the City of Dublin. He was keenly interested in the housing problem at Dublin, and carried out many I schemes at* his own cost. He also converted into a park in 1891 and presented to the city, the then neglected area known as St. Stephen's Green. In 1899 he purchased for £60,000 the Muckross estate, which includes the shores of the lakes of Killarney. He was proprietor of the Dublin "Daily Express." It seems a very long time since everybody was talking of Camilla Clifford, the Gibson girl, and going to see the play in which she was introduced to the London public, says a Home paper. Actually it is only eight years since the statuesque lady married that fine sportsman, Captain H. L. Bruce, Lord Aberdare's heir, and now she is a widow. Most of these modern stage marriages are turning out successfully, as this one did. Some ladies of the stage have made a great success of their new roles. Belle Bilton was worshipped on her husband's Irish estates after-she became Lady Qancarty. Rasie Boote is the most popular of (sporting Countesses, while Connie Gilchrist has made an admirable Countess of Orkney. A few mouths ago Princess Mary made and wore a necklace which she had designed herself. Venetian glass beads were used for its construction. The necklace was much admired, and the idea ocenrred to Her Royal Highness that she could make a large number and sell them, devoting the money to charitable purposes. And so she set herself the task of earning £250 in this way. A large supply of beads were obtained from Venice, and the Princess set about her task, often working six hours a day and sometimes giving up amusements in order to do so. In this way six hundred necklaces were made of different sizes and designs, and sold at prices varying from two to ten shillings. Thus the desired amount was more than realised, and the money earned was divided between three deserving charities.