PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 69

PERSONAL NOTES.

— Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Tasmania, has quite a remarkable record of administrative work in our colonies since ho was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Seychelles Islands, 28 years ago. He has occupied high positions in Fiji, Nevis, Santa Lucia, West Africa, Liberia, Trinidad, Natal, Ceylon, and Madras. Sir Arthur has a clean-shaven, keen and clever face, and is rarely seen without an eyeglass. He is a model of urbanity and dignity, and is regarded as a man of singular charm and brillianoy of conversation. — Mr Rose Innea, Mr Sehreiner'fc successor as Attorney-general of the Cape, and a man for whom a great future is confidently predicted by those who know hi in, is a darkmoustached, strong-jawed, resolute-looking man, with hair rapidly silvering, and a curious expression of mingled watchfulness and apprehendion. Ho is essentially a self-made man, for his grandfather was a gardener to an old Scottish family ; and when delicate health drove the buddintr Attorney- general to the Cape, he had a stiff fight before him. But he is made of stern stuff, and under pros Put conditions in South Africa will no doubt go far. __ — With the possible exception of the King of Sweden, King Victor Emmanuel of [taly is the mott. studious of European sovereigns. There are f&w European languages which he cannot road with fluency and ease, i«d the royal library, in which lie religiously spends several hours every day, contains averythmgr that is best in the world's literature-. Apart from his beloved books, the King takes an enthusiastic interest in coins, an which he is one of the chief authorities. While King Victor Emmanuel is poring aver his books o. is immersed in numismatics, his Queen frequently employs herself in an adjacent kitchen in cooking Vfontencfyrin delicacies, for which her Royal lusband has a pronounced partiality. — The death of the fouith. Baron Ellentrough f-ervns to remind us that there wus 1 good deal of law and politics in + h«» 'amily until the death of the- second r M •. Sir Edward Law (first Lord Eltenborou^h) vas P. 0., X C, Attorney-general, and Lord Jliief Justice in the early years of the lineteenth century, and waa succeeded- in ■he title by his son. of the. same name, ■"■'ho lerved in three Cabinets, was Governor•teaeral oi India 1841-44, and on his return

got a step in the peerage as Earl of Ellenborough and Viscount Southam, the second title being taken frpm his ©state near ta Cheltenham, lying at the. foot of the beatiti* ful Oleeve Hjtfls. He died in 1871, and the earldom passed away with him, but th« barony has since been " held by two successors. The fifth baron will be Commandei Law, R.N. — In the death of the Earl of Arundel, only son of the Duk© of Norfolk, and heir to the premier dukedom and office of Hereditary Earl Marshal of, England, a very feeble flame of life flickered out at krundel Castle on Tuesday, July 8. Though born, to such a great heritage of position and wealth, and 22 year 3of age, Philip Joseph Mary Fitzalan Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, was practically unknown to tlia world owing to the physical and mental infirmities which maz-ked him since his birth on September 7, 1879, and to him life meant very little, however great his heritage in the world. His final illness began on whaft was to have been Coronation day, and the Duke of Norfolk, one of the best and most devoted of fathers, was summoned from the turmoil of the Earl Marshal's office to hig bedside by telegram. The next heir is tho Duke's brother, Lord Edmund Bernard Tal. bot, and the misconception that the Dukedom of Norfolk would become extinct has arisen owing to the fact that, upon succeeding in 1876 to the estates of the last Catholia Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Edmund, in compliance with the will, changed his name front the patronymic of Howard to the Shrewsbury family name. Lord Edmund Talbot i» 47. — The King's illness and the consequent postponement of Coronation day must be held responsible for the fact that so little notice waa taken in the press of the death o£ Sir Francis Scott, the leader of the bloodless expedition to Aghantee in 1895, in whiciy two members of the Royal Family took part. One of these was Prince Henry of Battenberg, who died of fever contracted! on the march from Capo Coast Oastlo to Coomassie. and the other the late Princo Christian Victor, who died of enteric foyer in South Africa on the day that the City Imperial Volunteers made their public entry into London on their return. General Baden-Powell was also a member of the last) expedition to Ashantee, and in his book ore '"a ho Downfall of Prempeh " ho alludes to( his chief as "M'Lala-Pahnsi," which, being interpreted, means "The man who lies down; to shoot "" — a Zulu description of one wh" laya his plans carefully and with full cor; - pleteness before he embarks on his enterprise. Sir Francis wa» one of the three officers to whom, when seated upon an improvised throne of biscuit boxes, in the market square of the capital, Prempeh and thei Queen Mother made abject submission undeii circumstances that will be still fresh in tha public memory. Tho other two presidents of this quaintly-constituted court were the) late Mr (afterwards Sir William) Maxwell and Colonel Kempster. — The institution by the King of th© Order of Merit serves, says the Westminster Gazette, among other things, as a reminder that one of our Royal orders is kept alivo among us by only a solitary survivor. Thati 19 the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, instituted by George IV, when Prince Regent, two monthß after Waterloo. It had its Knights Grand Cross, its Knights Commander, >and its Knights both military and civil : but the K.H. did not carry with ifc the honour of the accolade. The primary object of the foundation of this order waa to reward those Hanoverians who rendered special service to the British Crown, but many Englishmen were admitted to it, and the only one now remaining is the Duke of Cambridge, who is therefore not alone the Senior Knight of the Garter, but the solitary Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, and this la*t seems pspecially fitting seeing .that 16 was at Hanover that, like his two sisters, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and the late Duches3 of - Te'ck. he was born. It is by the irony of circumstance that tho motto of the Hanoverian Order was "Necaspera terrent" — "difficulties oannot dismay." but the separation of the Crowns of Britain, and Hanover was not foreseen, and since that event in 1837 the whole institution has been allowed gradually to die out. — Thp House of Commons had a most clistinsruished and interesting visitor on July 1. in the person of his Highness Sir Sultan Mahonw-d Shah, the Agra Khan, nephew of the Sr-ah. and head of the Shiah branch of the Mahommedans, who predominate in. Pers ; a. and to a largf extent on our Northivcptern Frontier of India. His Highness is 3. young man of extremely engaging manners, and havine been a frequent visitor to Rngland, has won the friendship of tho King and other members of the Royal Family. Hf> is a zealous and generous proTiotor of enlightenment and good works in [nflia and oth«*r parts of the world, and Ha nflWnce has been highly valuable in seourng the allegianc* to the King-Emp-^r-T of some of the wild tribes on the Nort'a.-wes-ern frontier of India, His Highness ■& tbe lolder of numerous honours, conferred upon litn by the «rreat potentates of the world. >Nt he prizes none more highly than th« t.C.1. E.. lately conferred upon him by Pxlvard VII. He was introduced to the Houso >v Sir Mancherjee TlV>owna(rgre©. with whom md Sir Benjamin Stone he had tea, being* übsequentiv introduced to several of his klajestv's Ministers and other leading members. His Highness wears European dress.

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