PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 69

PERSONAL NOTES.

—Dr Adler, the Chief Rabbi, is a handsome, dignified man of 63, with a fine scholarly face illumined by grey eyes and framed by a beard rapidly becoming white. Although born in Hanover, he has practically spent his life in England, and, apart from a rather marked German accent, is a thorough Englkhmau. He is an eloquent preacher and a delightful talker, and spends the small leisure he can snatch from his manifold duties among the precious Oriental manuscripts in his library. The Duke of Richmond celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday on Friday, March 6. The Duke's Parliamentary career has extended over nearly 62 years, a3 he sat in the House of Commons as member for West Sussex for 19 years before he succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1860. The Duke of Richmond owns about 17,000 -acres iai Sussex, including the fine domain of Goodwood," and he inherited the vast Gordon estate (269,000 acres) in the north of Scotland from his mother, who was -eister p.nd heir of the last Duke of Gordon, who died in 1835. — Few men have ever amassed a fortune in commerce more rapidly tliam Mr Chamberlain. Entering the service of Nettlefold, the Birmingham screw manufacturer, in 1854 as a boy of 18, "without capital or friends," ho was able to retire from busi-ness-life just 20 yeais later with a very large fortune. During this time he rarely worked fewer -than 10 hours a day, and practically his only relaxation was found in the weekly debate of the Edgbaston Debatimg Society, where he learned the secret of that eloquence which hae since electrified the world. — Mr Alfred S. Thomas, of Messrs Reid and Gray's engineering department, has been awarded the first prize in a competition open to the New Zealand students of the American School of Correspondence. The prize consisted of a reference library oi engineering practioe, in five volumes, bound in half morocco, and a cheque for £3. Other prize winners in Otago are Mr D. H. Duthie, Milton ; Mr John Kelly, Palmerston ; Mr J. E. Macfarlane, Ba-lclutha. who havo each been awarded a reference library, and Mr John Donald, Dunedin, who receives a cheque for £1. — There is probably no more widely popular Church dignitary in England than Dr Forrest, Dean of Worcester. A great preached with the rare equipment of a born orator, a man of high mental endowment and personal charm, he has won respC^; amd love wherever he has gone. In South Kensington, where for many years he waa vicar of St. Jude's, he was almost worshipped by his parishioners, who, on his promotion to Worcester, presented him with a cheque for £2000. Dt Forrest waa an espeoial favourite of Queen Victoria, as he is to-day with King Edward and his family. He is a skilful musician, and has written several clever historical books. — Not many men are left who followed the hounds with the famous Join Peel, for this hero of song was ( horns to he grave half-a-century ago. One of the-m haa just passed away in the person of Mr John Crozier, who had reaohed the age of 81, and had been Master of the Blencathra Foxhounds for 64- years. Mr Crozier once followed tho hounds over Skiddaw in a blizzard when no other huntsman would venture, and had to creep over the top into calm weather. More than a hundred years ago his father was keeping hounds, some of whioh belonged to John Peel. — It is related that while in New York, Profossor Lorenz, one evening at dinner, was seated next to a clergyman, who was describing to he great Austrian how deplorable were moral conditions on the Fast Side. "Why, professor," said the minister, "I heard an 11-year-old girl over there one day step up to a boy of about her own age, and cay, 'I'll lick hell out of you.'" Dr Lorenz looked puzzled, for he is mot familiar with American <}lang. "Lick?" he said: "was ist dos 'lick?'" "Why, 'lick,'" said the clergyman, a little puzzled in return. " ' lick ' is to kick out of, to stamp out from, to eradicate." "Oh," said the professor, "and 'hell'? I don't know 'hell.' " "WpII, ' hell ' stands for a"!! wickedness, everything that is wicked." "Yes, I see." slowly responded Dr Lorenz ; "the leetle girl said to the leetle boy she would stamp out, eradicate, everything wicked from him But why should that be so bad?" — The new member of Dublin University, Mr James H. M. Campbell, K.C., is Solieitor-gcmeral for Ireland. He is the youngeet son of the late Mr William M. Campbell, a late Chief Superintendent of tho Dublin Metropolitan Police, p.nd w nearly 52 years of age. He was educated at Dr Stacpoole's Kingstown School, and at Trinity College, Dublin, whioh he entered in 1870, and where ho had a very distinguished career, bc-ing a sizar, scholar, and double gold medallist of Trinity College, Yiee-Chaiicelloi's gold medallist, and gold medallist for oratory and history. He was called to the Irish bar in 1878, joining the North-east Circuit, was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1892. and subsequently elected a Bencher of llio King's Inns. In 1899 ho was called to the English Bar at Gray's Inn, of which he was last year plected a Bencher. Ho has held many official position* iai Ireland, ha. been Crown Prosecutor for the counties of Antrim and Armagh, and at Green street. Dublin, and since 1901 Sol oitor-general for Ireland. He rer.rPiwntoH St. Stephen* Green Division of Dublin from the elevation of Mr William Kpmiv to the Iri«h Benoh in 1898 until the general election of 1900. —Dr Bradley, tlie late Dean of Westminster, did not long enjoy the well-earned leisure his busy career deserved. As a Latin scholar, he occupier! a foremost place, but it was as Demi of Westminster that he played a part whic-li >ue;ht to secure for him grateful memories from all who care, for that i>oem in stone, Hie venerable Abbey. His love for the historic pile was a« great as that of his predecessor, Dean Ktanlev. He ?aved the abbey from crumbling destruction by securing he transference of ho abbov estates, together with the responsibility for he preservation of the fabric, from the Dean and Chapter to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. During his te-nure of the D^anerv. Dr Bradley received to their last resting rjlace tho bodies of two great poets. Browning and Tenny'Fon, and it was through his good offices that memorials were, set up there to the memory of Darwin. Balre. Lotis-follow, Burns. Spotriswoode, Archbishop Tait, and others. Dr Bradley resigned office on Coronation Day, after taking part with Archbishop Temple in th<» actual .asTc of frowning fh« King. —Mr C R. Berlin, who has teen re-

turned an unopposed Nationalist for the representation of Galway City, for which the vacancy was created by the conviction of Colonel Lynoh, is the son of a Roscommon man who emigrated to Canada about half a century ago, and is now a prosperous merchant of Ottawa, but is still a frequent visitor to Ireland. He was born at Aylner, in the province of Quebec, in 1858, was educated at Montreal College and at Laval University, Quebec, and was for a time connected with journalism in Canada, but devoted more of hio time to business, having boon for years a partner with his father. In 1891 he was elected by an immense majority for the county of Ottawa as member of the Canadian House of Commons, being leeleeted in 1896. The following year he came over to Ireland as Canadian Commissioner, a post which he has now resigned in order to represent Galway. While a member of the Canadian Parliament ho introduced a resolution of sympathy with Home Rule for Ireland, and steadily ehampion&d the interests of his compatriots in Canada, with whom he was extremely popular. Mr Devlin has alwaye professed advanced Nationalist principles, and every session the Canadian Government, for whom he was acting in Ireland, was repeatedly criticised for his pronounced views iv regard to the Irish question. He is a personal friend of, and while in Parliament was a folio wei of, Sir Wilfred Laurie-r, and has always received strong support from the French-Canadian element, whose institutions and language he has de-fended on more than one occasion in Parliament. — Lord Charles Beresford will bo an ideal Commander of the Channel Fleet, and by giving him another important commission the Admiralty will have foi a time at anyrate got rid of a +,horn from their side. It must aint be taken for granted, however, that Lord Charlie, as he is familiarly styled by tl;o bluejackets, will be a party to covering up faults if ho discovers them ; and no doubt the shortcomings of the Channel Fleet will be criticised by him with the same vigor and outspokenness as were the defects of the Mediterranean Fleet. New York is aghast at Lord Charles's new appointment. Society there had made up its joisad that the popular sailor had consente-d to take the maritime control of the Atlantic Shipping Trust. It is an open secret that Mr Pierpont Morgan had offered him a fabulous salary, and Lord Charles hae been running to and from Europe pretty often lately. There is no Englishman half so popular in all circles aa he is, and the bare idea that he was to be in a manner their own property henceforth gave untold satisfaction. The prestige attaching to his position, his name, and his fame is exaggerated to a degree hard to understand on this side of the sea; and the announcement that after all hia pride in his profession has triumphed over all ;onsideratione and temptations arouses immense admiration as well as regret.