IN THE PAPERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13906, 6 November 1919, Page 8

IN THE PAPERS.

The two younger sons of Kuig George. Prince Albert and Prince Henry, are entering Trinity College as students of Cambridge University next term. Prince Albert is to study history, economies, and civics. The German ex-Empress has written to the Vicar of Chrisichurch, Wilhclmsliohe. saying:—"The Kaiser is bearing his burden, but the Lord will lead him out of the dark valley." He is feeling well, the letter adds, except for a bad cold, and the ex-Empress' own health is satisfactory". Mrs M- O. Ramsden has been elected to represent the district of Pelly in the Saskatchewan Legislature. This is the first woman to be elected in Saskatchewan, and the second to contest- a constituency. Mrs Ramsden is a Liberal, and her opponent was a returned soldier who ran as an Independent. She succeeds her'husband, who died lately. The Elms. Nuneaton, in which was held the first school attended by George Eliot, is about to be offered for sale by public auction. It is in much the same condition as when she was a. pupil there 90 years ago, and there is some talk of purchasing it as a memorial to her; It belongs to a family who supplied George Eliot with one .of her principal characters in "Janet's Repentance" (the Buchanans). The cloath has occurred of the Earl of Eglington and Winton , _ aged 71. He had been operated on for appendicitis some days previously. He was the son of the 13th earl, who- was twice Viceroy of Ireland, winner of the Derby, and the organiser of the famous Eglington Tournament. Rain spoilt the whole affair, audi it cost the earl £30,000. The late peer-was as capable a horseman as his father, and was for many years M.F.H ' of the Eglington Hounds, the best pack in Scotland. The new peer .is the eldest surviving so-n, Lord Mon'tgomerie, who was born ill ISSO. ' • • A lioness, some leopards, a tiger, and many other wild beasts.. including a troop of monkeys, recently escaped from a travelling menagerie, and entered the Saint Germain forest. People walking and cycling along the forest roads came face to face with tho animals, which seemed, however, even more sacred of the humans than the '"humans were of them. A soldier enioyin.ii a lonely cycle ride met a lioness bounding along the road. The animal, however, took no notice of him, and the soldier rode to a police station and save the alarm. All the animals, with the exception of . the monkeys, were rounded up before nightfall.

Jlr Herbert; Ward, the explorer, artist, and sculptor, whose death is announced from Paris, liael a life of adventure. When he left Mill Hill in IS7B at. the. age of 16, he sailed in an emigrant ship to New Zealand, and, after playing every sort of part in Australian and New- Zealand life- for three years, completed the circle of the world; as an A.B. He did not rest many months in -. England, and after two other sea voyages spent a most adventurous eight months as head of a military expedition into the interior of Borneo. His next expedition was to the Congo in 1884, where some three years later, on his own initiative, he collected 400 natives, marched to meet 'Stanley, and served with him for two and a half-years in the centre of the Dark Continent. He was the last surviving officer of Stanley's Emin expedition.

It is rather curious how the scene of fashionable weddings changes (remarks a London writer). St. Margaret's. Westminster, has again-been 1i favorite this season. Holy Trinity, _ Sloa-ne Square, recently witnessed several smart weddings in a few days. A church where only a few fashionable weddings liave taken place this season is St. George's, Hanover Square. •Ibis church in later Victorian days was quite the most fashionable Kesort for smart weddings. Even in the novels of that time every hero and heroine of any social pretensions had, on the last page, to hie themselves to St. "George's Hanover Square. The church register is one of the- most interesting m London, the marriage entries including Sir William Hamilton and Nelson's "Emma," Benjamin Disraeli and Mary Ann Lewis, Mr Cross and "George Eliot," and Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Carow.

, Leoncavallo possessed a fund of humor, which once lauded him in an awkward "predicament. Visiting incognito a. provincial theatre, where "Pagliacci" was billed, he found ihe stall on his left occupied by a music-lover, who applauded freely throughout the performance, and, as tile curtain fell, remarked to 'his neighbor, "What a. masterpiece!" The composer, being in the vein for a joke, replied, "Nothing of the kind. Speaking as a professional musician, I can assure you that the opera is one mass of plagiarisms. The cavatina is practically* all Berlioz. The opening duet is taken from Gounod. The finale sounds like a bad imitation of one of Verdi's finales. And so on. from beginning to end." Leaving the town by train the next morning, Leoncavallo -bought a local paper at the bookstall, and found therein an article headed, "Confessions of a Plagiarist. Startling Admissions by Signor Leoncavallo." His neighbor was a journalist, who happened to recognise the- composer. It was probably because of the bad reception accorded Leoncavallo's opera on the Hohenzoilerns, which he wrote for the ex-Kaiser, that he declined a commission to supply music to another libretto by William 11. just prior to the Moroccan crisis. So the monarch tlecided to be his own composer, and he was hard at work on the score when the Agadir trouble happened. The Chan- . cellor waited oil him for instructions. ' "Don't bother mo," said the War Lord. "I never told you to send a warship to Agadir. You got. into this mess yourself, and you must get out of it yourself. But there must be no fighting over it ; it isn't worth it."

The Right: Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop, of Pretoria, who is noted lor the directness of his public comments, declared at the Diocesan Synod on Septe-j-flber-1(3 that the marriage tie the Transvaal was rapidly becoming a. farce. The ease with, which divorce could be obtained there, said, notorious. The" bishop deseruied as a "devilish belief" the prevalent idea that _in private morals thero was one law for man and another for woman.

There was considerable excitement nt the streets of Berlin when tho authorities took steps to put an. end to the street hawking which has rendered the streets of the capital impassable. For several months the principal thoroughfares have been lined with women, ex-soldiers, and others, offering matches, soap, cigarettes, and chocolate at exorbitant prices. The frequent disturbances which occurred decided the authorities to take action. The streets were cleared bv the new' police'carrying rifles. Hundreds of hawkers werso arrested and conveyed in military lorries to the police station, where they were charged with uu- ( licensed peddling, profiteering, and disturbing tho peace. Later in Ihe day those who had escaped arrest, conceal--ing their wares in their pockets, did an excellent, trade, accosting the passers-by in whispers.