PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11056, 6 May 1899, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major Sin Archibald Hunter,K.C. B. ,was presented at Ayr with a sword of honour bj the inhabitants of Ayrshire. Tins Rev. Dr. Watson ("lan Maclaren") and Mrs. Watson have just left Liverpool {or New York. They will be away about three months. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Nowell Salmon, V C G.C.8., has gone to Teneriffe for the benefit of his health, accompanied by Lady Salmon, and they will probably proceed to the Cape. The name of Madame Patti's husband (Baron C'ederstrom) appears in a list of aliens to whom certificates of naturalisation or of readmission to British nationality have been granted during January. At- the suggestion of the family, a tablet has been added to the monument of Sir Henrv Havelock at Lucknow, commemorating the death of the late Sir Henry HavelockAllan in the Kliyber Pass in December in 1879. ' The Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, D.D.. Prebendary of Wells Cathedral, and Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge University, has been appointed as Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margarets Westminster. Lady Butler, before she sails to _ the Cape in a few days, hopes to finish a picture she is painting of a charge at the Alma. In that charge Lord Wantage, then a young lieutenant, carried the English colours with a daring that won him the Victoria Cross. Mer Majesty's favourite Skye terrier is named Rona 11. The Queen is always much interested in Rona. and is particularly fond of Skves. The sketch of. Her Majesty which sells best in France is one taken on the seashore with Rona 11. walking beside her. Miss Ada Swanwick. well known by her translations from Goethe and Schiller, is to be made LL.D. of Aberdeen University in company with Lord Strathcona. Herself an excellent scholar. Miss Swanwick has for years been active in promoting the higher "education of women. Mr. J. N. Maskelyne. the well-known entertainer, began his lifes career as a watchmaker's assistant at Cheltenham. _ His favourite hobbv, however, was conjuring, in which he soon rendered himself expert. Then he went to London, and there made his fame and fortune. A German lady has been paying a visit to Frau Emden Heine, the sister of the poet. Frau Emden, we learn from the Jewish World, is 98 years old, but is still strong, and fresh in mind and body. She was offered 20.000 marks for Heine's unpublished MSS. In this correspondence Heine referred to the Bible as "the medicine - chest of suffering humanity." Madame Mario Roze, her friends will bo glad to hear, is now almost convalescent after her severe attack of typhoid fever. In a letter received from 64, Rue de la \ ictoirc, Paris, by a Glasgow friend, the prima donna says that she has been able to be out several times for a drive, and that she expects to be able forthwith to resume her dramatic and musical teaching.

Slatin Pasha is leaving the Egyptian service. He proceeds to England, and will bo received by the Queen. He intends afterwards to settle in Austria, his native country. Sir Rudolph Slatin is still a young man, despite his 16 years spent in the Soudan, and in the Austrian army, on the ranks of which he lias always been borne, may achieve a fresh reputation.

Mr. Arthur J. Balfour has this session forsaken the pince-nez which was regarded as part of himself, and which has figured so prominently in the cartoons of the leader of the House." He now wears spectacles thinly rimmed with gold. The pince-nez had thick black rims, which emphasised the paleness of Mr.. Balfour's face. The Speaker has also taken to the occasional wearing of spectacles.