WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15625, 3 June 1914, Page 10

WHO'S WHO.

Tire voluntary retirement of Admiral Sir George King-Hall was not unexpected, liince he returned to England from Australia, when the Admiralty handed over local navy control to th>> Commonwealth Government, ho has let it bo known that ho did not intend to terve out his time on the active list, on which be could have remained for atiother 18.months. Perhaps the two most inter 3ting incidents of his very active career were that, as captain of the Molita, ho assistod to salve the French ironclad Seiguelay from the rocks nt Jaffa, receiving a magnificent present of Sevres china for this fervico, and that lie first hoisted the British flag at Wei-hai-wei when China leased that place to us in 1895.

The Bishop of Yukon states that while on ono of his longest journeys ho and his companions were reduced to eating their sealskin boots. They set out to visit tho Esuqimaux along tho Arctic coast, and havijig Accomplished this stage of the journey hoped to cross the Great Divide over tho Rocky Mountains in order to roach Dawson City. The sickness of an Indian guide delayed them, tho winter set in earlier than usual, and tho travellers had to pass through a region which offered scarcely any game for food. When they began to eat their sealpkin boots they had loss than two pounds of flour, a litilo bacon, and a handful o frice.The boots thoy toasted, and the Bishop remarked that,' they found them palatable enough. When they came to eat tho, top of tho boots the Bishop recorded the fact that it was "not as good os the^ole."

The late Lord Cawdor only succeeded his father in 1911, and he had been obliged to live as an invalid ginco 1908, when his health failed badly. He inherited large estates in South Wales and in the North of Scotland. Stacpole Court, noar Tenby, is ono of tho most beautiful places in tho Principality, and Cawdor Castle is a most quaint and picturesquo domain, with interesting historical associations. Tho Cawdor grouse moors of 25,000 acres aro among the best in Scotland. Lady Cawdor is a daughter of Mr. John Thynne, and she inherited a very largo fortune from her uncle, Mr. Charles Ellis, who also left her the Frensham Hall estate in Surrey. She was cosham Hall Estate in Surrey, Lady Hindlip, under the will of Mr. Ellis. Successive owners of tho Cawdor estates have always been very popular, and vacant farms are unknown on tho property.

When tho scholastic liistory of tho country comes to bo written, tho namo of Butler will figure largely in the records, for no family has displayed such classical geriius as tho Butlers, tho eldest member of which, Mr. Spencer Butler, celebrated his golden wedding a few weeks ago. Mr. Spencer Butler, who la a second son of tho Very Rev. George Butler, Senior Wrangler of 1794 and headmaster of Harrow from 1005 to j.829, won high academic distinction in his early days, taking a first-class in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Ho is the elder brother of Butler, Master of Trinity, whoso three sons have already proved themselves classical scholars of the highest distinction. The Idest, Mr. J. R. M. Butler, swept the board of prizes at Cambridge, and his list of triumphs is unprecedented. Mr. Spencer Butler ha ine sons, five of whom havo won honours at Cambridge. It is an interesting fact? that Mr. Butler's grandfather was the Rev. Weedon Butler, with whom the intellectual distinction of the family began. _ He was born in 1742, and was a classical master at- Chelsea. Thus for a .(century and a half the Butlers have maintained their reputation as being the most remarkable classical family in thn country. J u

By .the decision of tho New York Supreme Court a sum of £5,000,000 left by the lata Mr. John Carter Brown which has been lying in trust for 40 years will be divided between Mr. Brown's onlv surviving child, Mrs. Sophia Sherman, the mother of Lady Camoya, and Mr Brown's ( only, grandchild, Mr. John n! Brown. The latter, who is aged 14, thus becomes the wealthiest boy of his a"c in America. Mr. Brown, who died in 1874 left his estate in trust until his youngest, child should reach the age of 21 or his wife should die, when tho entire property was to be divided equally among his children and their issue. Mr. Brown had two sons, both of whom died in 1900. His widow died in 1909, and the estate then passed to Mrs. Sherman and Mr. Brown's young grandson. A friendly suit was started to determine the legality of the transfer, and this was interrupted when an heir was born to Lord and Lady Camoys last year to permit of the appointment of a guardian to protect tho interests of the heir, the Hon. Ralph Stonor. Tho Courts have now given a decision which divides the property between Mr. Brown's child and grandchild, nobody else sharing.