In the Public Eye

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 24

In the Public Eye

SOME POINTS OF NOTABLE PERSONAGES

rhe Stock Exchange has not often had a member in the Ministry. One of the new peers/Mr. Sydney Arnold, Undersecretary for the Colonies, is a stockbroker, though he has given up active hnsiness. He belongs to the Manchester Stock Exchange, of which his brother, Mr. A. L. Arnold, of1 the firm of A. Arnold and Sons, is chairman. The previous of a.stockbroker becoming a member .of the Government was when the-late Earl of Hardwicke was appointed '.Under-Secretary for India in 1900. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange.

■ , One of the great authorities on the antiquities of London is Mr. F. Lambert, who for some years past has acted as the curator of the Guildhall Museum, which contains Na collection of relics of Saxou and Roman London, >all too little appreciated by the generality of, citizens/ Mr. Lambert has made, a life *tudj of the growth and development of London, and has advanced many original ideas with reference to the early days^ when there was' practically no settlement. His recent investigations have served to throw farther light on a subject which "has ■£;iven. rise to keen controversy.

.Mr." Edward Granville Theodora; the Prime Minister of Queensland, who is visiting England/has had.the happy experience, not very common among politicians, of never knowing defeat at a political election. He first stood for the Legislative Assembly of his province of Australia 15 years ago, and has won the fight at every '.successive -election since as a representative of-^Labour. He is an Australian born and bred., has a gift for figures and administration which his party quickly turned Ao account, and which lifted him out of .the rank and file in a few years to State Treasurer and Minister of Public Works. : He is an old friend ot Britain, and still looks upon England as "home." ;

The, photograph in the newspapers of Mr.'Noel' Buxton hardly convey; the impression that in his young days the new Minister of' Agriculture was a dashing rider.1 But I recall (writes a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian") an occasion in the early .'nineties of the last, century wherivhegave an excellent dis- , play of horsemanship.' It was at a .fieldday at .Aldershoti when he was a majdr in the old 2nd' Tower Hamlets Volunteers. His charger, startled by the playing of a band; bolted with him and careered ■ madly about the Long A 7alley. Those who Vefe familiar with the .equestrian abilities of the average volunteer major of those days" feared a calamity, but Major Buxton was -quite equal' to that occasion arid, keeping a perfect seat; he- regained: control •of the frightened horse in a few minutes and trotted coolly back to his place amid'the cheers of a brigade. ■'':'• ■'-.; i -;"• .

Lord Erroll's grandson'and second heir, Mr. Josslyn Hay, and his wife,! Lady. Idina, are settling in.Kenya. Colony, and going in for farming. 'This East' African Protectorate 'has an ever-increasing colony of prominent residents; including Lord and Lady Francis Septt, Captain Arthur and Lady. Muriel Jex-Blake, the former being a doctor a'sov'ell as farmer. Lord and Lady Hindlip nave owned for long,; a; sporting and. agricultural estate there, so have Lord and Lacly Cranworth and Lord Delamere...'; ;. '■" '

{M. Rykov,' successor to M. Lenin/as .President of the Council of Commissars in Russia^ is a.Russiari peasant by origin, aged -43 years, and an 'engineer by profession. He was arrested and sent to rArchangel in 1900; but escaped, and was re-arrested and banished to Siberia in 1902. He became Cbrtmissary of \Hdme Affairs in 1918, and has been head of the Council of National Economy -since-1919.' He became' prominent, by his- very able management of supplies during the Civil War. -. .'.■ •■ ' , ■■■■-' ', ■ .

i Mr. Justice Tajbot, Who succeeded Sir Charles Darling, is a learned man arid an authority on ritual' and licensing law. One of-his uncles is th 6 ex-Bishop of Winchester, and . he, himself has been ;Standirig ; Counsel to Oxford. University and Chancellor .of . the Lincoln, -Ely,v Lichfield, Squthwark, and Winchester Qioceses. There are no "short cuts" . for■ those who sit in judgment; Mr. Justice. Talbot is sixty-two; and brings with him-a ripe store of experience. He tells a story of the late Commissioner Kerr, who.was told by a prisoner that he had "fqund" a; gold watch and chain on the pavement. The Judge looked at. the prisoner, and then at the'jury.' "Gentlemen of .the jury," .he said, "Phave walked over the pavements of London during the, last |forty, years, arid I've never found a;gold watch and chain there yet." Consider your verdict!"- ■■■•■"

It is .reported that. Mr. (Ramsay Ma,c-' Donald has shown-some'impatience already on the subject of-the presence of detectives at Chequers, though he will hardly.complain as often and as bitterly as Gladstone' did. The provision of a "guard" at Hawarden fell on the county rates, -and Gladstone/ was continually grumbling at tbe^expense to which his '■neighbours", were put in this respect • Remonstrances to the' Home Office failing of. any. effect, he af last took the matter into his own hands, and announced'that he had requested to be relieved1 "from further affliction by dragons."

Tall, clean-cut, Colonel E. ,0. Hughes is a constant reminder to the Turks and low-grade Greeks who eke out their livings in the Gallipoli; Peninsula that they are on sufferance on hallowed Australian ground/ The Australian fla^ is always flown oveP the: headquarters at Keha, although Colonel Hughes is actii-r ally employed now;at the head of the Imperial War Graves Staff on Gallipoli, and not as a mere ":remnaht of the A I P llis work on the Peninsula has been wonderful. At first he, was confronted'with the; serious difficulty that numbers !• of bereaved people from Australia wished fFu 1° a few months of the Armistice. The. rough journeying, and the complete absence of any accommodation for them would probably have resulted in the.deaths of some of the elderly men and women,who were almost frantically eager to get there. He used great tact in making his representations, against any premature peace-time invas-. ion of the battle-grounds. '■ ■.. . •

Loid. Birkenhead Rave some reminiscences of h,s school days recently, when ' VLSll:ecl Birkenhead. School, of whhh he