WHO'S WHO?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14928, 28 February 1912, Page 10

WHO'S WHO?

T.ss new editor of the Pall Mall Gazette is Mr. J. L. Garvin. The King of Siam, who can write fluently in three [European languages, is an author of some note. He has written several stories for children's magazines published in England. Among the many peculiar distinctions which might he claimed by the German Emperor, even among Kings, is the possession of tho largest, number of uniforms any one being has ever worn. Miss Anita Stewart, who married, in 1909, Dom Miguel, Duke of Vizeu, eldest son of the jovial Pretender to the Portuguese Crown, may very possibly share the throne of Portugal with him some day. Lavish hospitality is dispensed by Lady Shaftesbury at her beautiful" house, St*. Giles's, Cranborne, where she, her hueband, and children, spend a great deal of the year when her services are not required at Court. In looks Lord Camoys, who married an American heiress the other day, resembles a Spaniard more than an Englishman. Ho is very dark, with sleek black hair and black eyes:. Although the title to which lie succeeded in 1897 dates right back to the 13th century, he is only the fifth peer to hold it, as from 1426 "to 1839 it remained in abeyance. It was revived by Queen Victoria in the second year of her reign. Mr. Walter Crane has received further tribute from Italy. In 1903 King Victor Emmanuel made him a Commendatore of the Order of the Royal Crown, and now he has conferred on him the Orders of S.S. Maurizio and Lazzara, thus raising him to the rank of cavaliere. This is in recognition of his service in connection with the International Exhibition of Humorous Art, held last year at the Castle of Eivoli, near Turin.

Mr. Robert Sievier, the prospective Unionist candidate for Hoxton, was, at the ago of seventeen, in the Frontier Police in South Africa, serving through the Kaffir war of 1877-8. Subsequently he went on the stage, touring in India. In the early 'eighties he emigrated to Australia, became connected with the turf, and was well known in Melbourne as an all-round sportsman. To the public at large he is best known as the former owner of Sceptre, for which he paid 10,000 guineas as a yearling filly at the sale of the late Duke of Westminster's thoroughbred stud. Sceptre won the Oaks, St. Leger, and One Thousand Guineas, and was sold to Mr. Bass for £25,000. Mr. Sievier has written several plays, one of which, " The "Younger Son," was produced at the Gaiety, the names in the programme including those of Miss Lena Ashwell, Miss Eva Moore, and Mr. Herbert Waring. Some years ago Mr. Sievier founded a weekly paper. His wife, Laxly Mabel Sievier, nee Lady Mabel Brudenell-Bruce, is a sister of the fourth Marquess of Ailesbury.