IN THE PAPERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13907, 7 November 1919, Page 6

IN THE PAPERS.

During the regatta at Santander in August, Giralda.iV., the yacht of King Alfonso, ran on a sand bank. The King jumped into the water with, the crew, and helped to right the craft.

The Duke of Connaught, on medical advice, will probably pass the greater part of the winter abroad. The south of France is regarded as best suited folium, and he will be joined there for a time bv Lady Patricia Ramsay.

The Duke of Portland is proposing to retire from the turf, of which he has been so great a supporter for many rears. It is some time since the popular "white, black sleeves and cap" were last carried with any real degree of success.

The wife of Admiral Kolchak, head of the Omsk Government, is at present living quietly in Passy. France. In an interview she said that her husband is not disposed toward the establishment of an absolute monarchy m Russia, but favors a constitutional monarchy until order is restored.

"It is my command that none of my sons shall marry under the age of 25,'' directed Mr Michael Murphy, J.P., ot Temple road and Upper Sadkville street. Dublin, who left personal estate of £34,170. Mr Murphy was of Messrs Murphv, Lambkin, aud Co., and for the last four years president of the Wine Trade Association of Ireland. s

Tobacco and cigarettes are almost unobtainable- in Paris unless one is on good terms with a tobacconist, who is alwavs a wineshop keeper. A bank clerk named Cuchet, having tried vainly to buv tobacco, collected all Ms friends, and returned to the shop with 300 followers. He threatened to wreck the premises unless everyone was given tobacco, and -900 packets were disgorged. #

The. Duke of Richmond is a tolerant Christian. He recently visited Tomiutoul, Banffshire, the highest town in Scotland, to open a bazaar in aid ot the building fund of the church of the district Convent of Mercy. The Duke's tenantrv in the Tomintoul district ave largely' Roman Catholic Highlanders, their "ancestors having adhered to the old faith at the Reformation. The rest of the Duke's tenantry are chiefly Presbyterians, and the Duke himself is an Anglican.

Lord.lveagh, whose earldom was in the belated birthday honors list, owns in Elveden Hal, near Thetford, a unique, country seat. It was formerly the property of the late Prince Duleep Sin'irh. and the whole of the interior is lit ted' in Oriental fashion. King Edward staved here on several occasions for the shooting. Lord Iveagh is a widower, Lady Iveagh, who was Miss Adelaide Guinness, her husband's cousin, having died in 1916. Captain Rupert Guinness, who sits in the House of Comons for Southend-on-Sea, and Ladv Evelvn Guinness, a daughter ot the "late Lord Onslow, will now have the courtesy titles of viscount and viscountess.

Lord Lee of Fareham, who has been appointed President of the Board of Wicultmv and Fisheries, in succession to Lord Ernie (better known as Mr Prothcro), was created a baron Inst vear. after having represented the jaroliam Division of Hampshire as a Cnionist for 18 rears. He is 50 years of age. In 1917 Lord Lee presented to the nation, subject to life interest, the famous Chequers Estate, in the Cliillern Hills, with the mansion House and its contents, to he the official country residence of the Prime Ministers of England. .... s The will of Sir Edward Montague Nelson, The Lawn.Warwick, a pioneer of the New Zealand meat export trade, chairman and managing director of the Australian Chilling and Freezing Company, the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, Nelson Bros., Ltd.. and the Central Queensland MeatExport Company, chairman of George Nelson. Dale, aiid Co., and a director of the' Australian Estates and Mori-<ra«-e Company, Mayor of Warwick, and sheriff of Middlesex, has been proved in London at £80,682. Sir Edward Nelson left £2OO to his gardener, David Cooper. -.

Colonel Hall Walker, who has justbeen raised to the Peerage, is to take the title of Lord Osmaston. This is after Osmaston Manor, the .family place of the Walkers, near Ashborne, in Derbyshire. A fine house, built on an eminence, and giving delightful views of the picturesque country around. Osmaston was the the new peer's father, the, late Kir Andrew Walker, and it is now the home of the latter's widow and her voung son. Sir lan Walker, who is in his 17th year. Lady Osmaston was Miss Sochi'e Sheridan, youngest daughter of Mr Algernon Sheridan, of Frampton Court, Dorchester, and a descendant of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the statesman, dramatist, and wit. She has inherited the beauty of the* members of her family, one of whom was Lady Somerset, the Queen' of Beauty at "the Eglington tournament.

Mr Arthur Hayday, aged 50, Labor M.P. for West Nottingham, wJio was cheered by the House of Commons in February when in a debate he said he was the father of 16 children, has jusfc been presented with another girl. In a .speech on the Rent Act (Notices to Quit), in the Commons on February 17, Mr Hayday said: "I speak with a good deal of experience, being born a members of a family of 16, my wife being a member of a family of 13, myself being the proud father of 16 I myself have been the subject of notice to quit." How Mr Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., the well-known miners' leader, got the colliers of his area to provide him With a motor car is a story worth telling. When he first made known his wish to his committee, he was asked how much ;i car would cost. He mentioned a aum that struck the committee as prohibilive. _They agreed that the men would never consent. But at a general meeting of the colliers, the request was made ;igain. "How much will a motor car cost?" demanded oik; of the crowd. "Only a. halfpenny a week for each of yon tot a few months," replied the future M.P. He got his motor car.

Mr James do Rothschild, who was recently struck by a. golf ball which shattered bis monocle, married M'sh Dorothy Pin to, and is equally well well known on the English and Krcneli "turf." He is a keen follower of tho hounds, mi art collector, and the author of a volume on Elizabethan literature, lie. was injured in ISllfi, while acting as a despatch bearer at the front. It is pmctically certain that the injured «yn will be. saved.