PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 6 November 1890, Page 39

PERSONAL NOTES.

Prince Albert Victor, accordirg to a correspondent of Notes and Queries, is the only son of a Prince of Wales who has taken his seat in the House of Lords before his father's accession to the throne.

Miss Annie Cutting, the Ame/ican heiress, whose engagement to a Belgian noble, Baron Verier, is announced from Hoinburgh, made her debut in New York six or seven years ago in a ball given in her honour at Delmonico's by her uncle, General William Cutting. She is an only daughter. Mr Pullman, of palace car fame, has offered the ground and a 5,000,000d0l loan to the Chicago World's Fair directors for the needed site and buildings. There is still fighting in Chicago over the location of the Fair.

Prince Bismarck has abandoned his projected visit to an English watering place in the autumn.

The Rev. Neville Jones, for 44 years vicar of St. George's, Bolton, announced his resignation of the living to his congregation recently, to take effect from the end of the year. Mr Jones is over 80 years of age, and has been in the ministry 58 years.

Madame Blavatsky, the high priestess of theosophy, weighs 3001b, though eating nothing but tomatoes, nuts, raisins, and juicy fruits, and drinking hot water. She wears a black silk slip, made baby fashion, belted at the waist with a draw string, and lives day and night in a parlour carriage, in which sh6 is wheeled from room to room in her London house.

Mr Francis Raynes, of South parade, Bawtry, has presented a new illuminated striking clock and bell to the inhabitants of Bawtry, fixed in the new public hall just erected in the principal street facing the market place.

Judge Jeremiah Smith, of Dover, N.H., recently appointed to a professorship at Harvard, is probably among the youngest among the few sons of Revolutionary soldiers now living. He was born in 1837. Hia father, Hon. Jeremiah Smith, was one of the Battle of Bennington soldiers.

Mr Vincent Scully, a Tipperary landowner and a well known Dublin man, has assigned property worth £600 a year to Messrs J. Dillon, W. O'Bripn, and T. Harrington, to be applied in their discretion towards the furtherance of the Irish cause. Mr Scully has handed over the lease of his property for the legal transfer of the amount mentioned out of his income.

The wealthiest man in Liverpool is supposed to be Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, brewer, distiller, and coal proprietor, who was created a baronet a few years as;o, and no brewer in the United Kingdom is more honoured and popular, if we except Sir E. C. Guinness. Sir Andrew, who is now 62 years of age, is the son of a brewer at Warrington, whose business he has immensely developed, and has just formed into a limited liability company, retaining, however, the greater part of the shares for himself and his nominee. The capital is £3,000.000. He has presente3 to Liverpool an Arts Gallery at a cost of over £60,000 ; has given over £25,000 to the Liverpool branch of Victoria University ; and i 3 said to be also very generous in private. His Fecond wife, before marriage, was a maid of honour to her Majesty tbe Queen. He has b^en twice Mayor of Liverpool, an unusual honour in that, great city, whose most honoured citizens do not avoid its council chamber, but, take a full share in managing municipal affairs. His rare financial talent is universa'ly admitted ; and, thanks to it and good trado in brewing, his fortune is suppoperl to bp at Wsr £4,000,000.

— There are 22,357 artists domiciled in France at present.

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