WHO'S WHO?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14492, 5 October 1910, Page 9

WHO'S WHO?

Not very many men can boast of so splendid a reputation as a father-in-law as Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, who this month celebrate? his jubilee as ruler of a Principality which does not number more than 250,000 inhabitants. One of his daughters is Queen of Italy, another married a Russian Grand Duke, yet another is Duchess of Leuchtenberg, and a fourth is Princess Francis of Battenberg. To a friend who once wondered what were the exports of Montenegro, the Prince wittily replied, " You forget toy daughters !" First Miss Lena Ashwell, then Miss Gertrude Elliott, and now Miss Evelyn Millard has announced her intention of going into theatrical management. The best wishes of hundreds of admirers will go with Miss Millard in her venture, for as an actress she has earned much popularity and fame. She is one of the finest elocutionists amongst living actresses, and intended, in the first place, to adopt the career of a reciter. Miss Sarah. Thorne, however, gave her a chance in Shakesperean and other parts, her first salary being 25s a week. That was nearly 20 years ago. Miss Millard's first London success was as Flavia in " The Prisoner of Zenda."

I The Lady Mayoress of London Knill — recently gave a banquet to the Archbishops and bishops, is a woman of > very religious .and charitable sympathies. She is one of the three women in the world who possess the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, given to her for charitable work in the Roman Catholic diocese of Southwark, where she is known as " Queen of the Poor." In connection with her charitable work Lady Knill is rather fond of telling the story of a man to whom she gave a pair of boots. Some days later she met the man again wearing his old ragged pair. " What have you done with the pair I gave you?" she asked him. I "Oh," replied the old rascal, unblushingly, " I left them off. These I am wearing are worth ten shillings a day to me." "We want more men like you." It was in these words that King Edward referred to Sir John Prichard Jones, in whose honour a dinner, presided over by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given in London recently, when His late Majesty visited Bangor some time ago. A self-made man in every sense of ?he term, Sir John, by his benefactions in the cause of education, has done more to improve the chances of Welsh boys and girls than probably any other man. Born in a tiny Welsh village, he was early impressed with the lack of clubs, institutes, and places where young men could secure profitable entertainment, and, to quote Mr. Lloyd-George's tribute, "he remembered this when ho was able to do something for his native village." Sir John is president of the London Drapers' Chamber of Commerce —a very important body. Accompanying the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto, Canada, on their approaching visit to Aklershot, is Major Rybert K. Barker, who is well known in rowing circles, both in England and the Great Dominion. He has frequently accompanied the famous Argonaut eights of Toronto to Henley regattas as coxswain and manager. During the South African war he commanded "C' Company of the first Canadian contingent—the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry. While this regiment lay at Belmont night lights in the surrounding country gave cause for alarm. Peculiar light flashes from Kaffir kraals near Belmont led Captain Barker and a small party of men to investigate the presumed Boer signals. The phantom lights lured the Canadians to a cluster of strawcovered huts, where, in the deepest darkness, they crept on hands and knees to the spot from which the apparent messages were being sent to the Boers. A sudden dash resulted in a surprise for both the black men and the Britons, for the natives were simply holding a weird funeral service over the body of a very anall infant of the tribe.

To be a colonel commanding a crack corps of Canadian volunteer riflemen and at the same time to be a chief of a tribe of real Red Indians is a double-barrelled leadership held by one man only, so far as known. This distinguished officer is Sir Henry M. I'ellatt, of Toronto, Canada, who commands the Queen's Own RfAes of that city, and who, at his own personal expense, has chartered the White Star Dominion liner Megantic to bring his whole regiment of 600 officers and men to Aldershot for a month's military manoeuvres, sailing from Quebec on August 20 and finishing the instructive sojourn in England by the end of September. Sir Henry has not the slightest resemblance to any kind of Red Indian, and his recent.elevation to the estate of chief was quite an lonoiary affair. To celebrate the jubilee if this foremost of Toronto's regiments there »vas a reunion of old members irom all parts of North America, and, for the delectation of his guests, the officer commanding provided, amongst other treats, a set of Indian performers from one of Ontario's Government "reserves." So pleased were the Redskins with the white soldiers' appreciation of their efforts, and so elated were they were the hospitality of the "palefaces,' that the popular colonel of the militiamen was singled out for .the ueauliai\ .distinction reerred to,,