ABOUT PEOPLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9068, 14 April 1906, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Loixl Roberts doesn't smoke, touches Wine but seldom, and rises at 5.30 every morning, summer and winter— no matter how late he may have retired. Lord Brassey offered to erect, at his a photograph of the Billington cricket club at Oxford, and among the team is King Edward, then, an Oxford undergraduate. Lord Brassey ocened to erect, at his o«m expense, a large number of woden . cottages on the English model for the ( sufferers by the recent Italian earthquake. . The offer was accepted by the mentI The Duke of Argyll, King Edward's 1 brother-in-law, has enlarged his literary , scope by writing a book of nonsense verse 'in the form of a song ballad 1 . His first j work, "The United States after the War," "brought him to tih& notice of American readers Sir William Maogregior, Govtejrnor of . Newfoundland, is one of the most ramark\able men in the British colonial service, , both physically and mentaly, and is tii-e only Governor to wear the Albert medal, which is the civilian counterpart of the Victoria Cross. ; The Princess of Wied, who is a prominent figure in the court circles a.t Berlin, and whose husband is in the line c? succession to the throne of Holland, buys all the ill-used horses that come to her notice and gives them the benefit of a stay in her well-appointed stables.

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