ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 14

ABOUT NOTABILITIES.

Father Joseph Bertram, a aeyoted priest who wae for 23 years m charge of the leper settlement in Japan, wb.cu was started by Father Teetevu.de in 1888 has died. For the last three yeare he had been ailing, and his laet request was that he should be buried in the lepers' graveyard.

The "British Medical Journal" announces that Sir Richard Havelock Charles, Sergeant-Surgeon' to the King and President of the Medical Board of the India Office, has accepted an invitation to become Dean of the London School of Tropical .Medicine, in succession to the late Sir Francis 1-ovell.

Prince George of Greece, who is now with his family at St. Cloud, had intended upending the summer at liie Danish country seat at (iarrehue, says "Politiken," of Copenhagen, but he has suddenly decided to return to Greece owing to the threatening situation. The Prince is an admiral in the Greek Navy.

Baron George yon Saalfcld, eldest son of Prince Ernst yon Saxe Meiningen, has been killed in an air fight at La Bassec by au English airman. Prince Ernet's brother, Prince Frederick, fell in the battle of Charleroi, August 13, 1914. Prince Ernst yon Saxe Meiningen manned morganatically Baroness yon Saalfeld, and their children bear the latter's name.

According to "London Opinion," Sir George Reid was out on foot early one morning, and on attempting to cross a street was nearly rim down by a coster's baiTow. The coster pulled his email donkey barrow up just in time, and Sir George, after casting his monocled eye over the diminutive turnout, said to the cost: "By Jove! my friend, you had a narrow escape."

One of the pretty society girls who would have been one of the debutantes of the season, had there been a season, is the Hon. Ruby Hardinge, daughter of Viscount Hardinge and niece of the exViceroy of India, who is one of the members of the Irish Board of Inquiry. She is quite an extraordinarily handsome girl, and ie likely to make a eenaatiun later. Just now she is in mourning for her elder brother, Lieut, the Hon. H. R. Hardinge, of the Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action in May last year.

With the conferment by the King of Italy of the Order of the AnnunzSata upon the Prince of Wales, his Royal Highness now possesses the three most notable and ancient distinctions in Europe, the others being the Garter and the Golden Fleece of Spain. Tile Prince has held the British and Spanish Knighthoods for the past four years. No doubt in due course the Heir-Apparent wil] be made a Knight of the Thistle and of St. Patrick. At present the Duke of Connaught is the only member of the three great British Orders of Chivalry.

Mrs. Russell Barrington, who has just lost her husband, forms an interesting link with the great Duke of WeUin<rton° In her life of Walter Bagehot Mre. Barnngton relates that when she and her ester aPere-srtalP-chiMreh "we paseod most 'of our ••••playtime" in Hamilton Uardens, where the Dnke of Wellington and my father frequently met. One summer evening we were" trying with more ambition than knowledge to fly kites, and the Duke saw we were doing it all wrong. He walked briskly acrose the lawn and showed ue the proper way to fly them, watching the result with keen interest. Under his guidance our kjtee flew up as high as Apsley House."

Admiral Prince Victor Hohenloh.j whose cephew has boon appointed German Ambassador at Conetantinople dropped hie title of Langenburg in order tltat he might not be compelled to tak» precedence of hie English wife, and al*u because he hated all iorms and ceremonies. In His midshipman days the chip on which he was stationed put into a port where there were English troops, and the commanding officer came on board presently he asked the captain whether there was not a Prince, a relative of Queeß Victoria, among hi* officers, a £d 1111 ,? - that thiß WIW the ««e, asked to be introduced to him. «By the HshW d he \:™? ] * J t° call hrm 'You,

JQ>e father of the late Lord Clanriwas m two respects the antithesie of the son. He was a model landlord hvxng among his own people and sharing crop Hewas no recluse; but loved the ope,, air ,n high places, for he was a Pioneer in the art of flyin<r jt is to Wy BloomfJd %, ol %he lh-7 ?°7 the P ' Oneer,s wif <= met while out dnving by a friend. He inquired after her husband. Lady Clanricarde pointed skywards and ejaculated, "He is there." F or amo imagined the husband

Lady Petre, as owner (de jure of her son Petre of T Essex) of a great estate, is setting an admirable sample to landowners. Last autumn, wrth the assistance of h er father the late Mr. John Boscawen, ehe started a milking school at Thorndon anJ as ° f A the W ° men ' 3 ««*ion of the War Agricultural Committee she has been doing very successful work in the county in connection with the women and the land movement The Fetres are an old Catholic family which has been established at Thorndon. (or rather close by at Ingatestone Hall, the A??!™! SL thE ° ld mansion '" "Lady Audley-s Secret") since Henry VIII 's days. J

What the-late Lord Alvcrstone used to regard as the finest compliment ever ..aid Z T.?T nS hi 3 Career at th e Bar ie related by h,s cousin, Mr. E. R. Calthrop, * lh i f" cn S iuee "nS rase in the north, relative to certain defective boiler work, attracted great interest among the local workmen, who crowded the court every day. On the last day while Dick Webster" was addressing the court for the plaintiffs, a burly boilermaker foreman came in and sat down next to one ot the principals o f the plaintiff firm, to whom he was well known. After Webster had dealt searching y with abstruse technical details and odd customs of the shops, the foreman at last turned to his neighbour and whispered, "Who's that feller talking to the judge?" "That's Mr. Webster, our counsel," was the reply. '"Wha—a—t?" crescendoed the foreman. "D o you mean to tell mc that feller's only a lawyer? Gam! 'E knows a d sight too much tor that (almost roaring, that the court itself looked up). "I tell yer that leuere & d boSensakerl"