PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 11 March 1908, Page 81

PERSONAL NOTES.

"* 5r — Ainojigst many" other distinctions Lore! Suffi?l'J. who rPC3ntly celebrated his seventyeighth. birxhday,^A-att claim be Lord cf "T1& MsMof- of --YSyfi&dtath; SftJ tfssuch takos [ cyecytiitlilßrl wasfeetJl apf; by -jlie v ..t9ea upon a hjarth-tiiar m»etrh"of coast. Dnf ing one year The Receiverof WreckiTat Yarmouth rei mitteu to hi«. lordship -hits "annual nefarious ; tribute, taken " from his suffering ' fellow- : men." ,Ifc an.oun.ted to threepence.-' j — A remarkable career- is ended_ by recent duath of 'Alderman A. J. Hucklesby, J.P., of Luton. Born in humble circumstances Mr Hucklesby became Mayor of Luton five times. He has been called the "Straw Hat King," as he was the head oi the largest .business in the straw hat - indiistrj." As" a 'boy he used to walk seven - miles daily, to school at Luton. He left school a*-, 13, and after holding one situation for a number of years, he started in business for himself with one clerk and one yacjrer. Mr Hucklesby, who amassed a large fortune, took a leading part in the wonaerful development of Lutpn's staple injdustry. which has doubled the town's population" in 30 years. — Lord Alvertftone, the Lord Chief Ju3« tioe of England, at a social meeting at Cranleigh, sang a song which he declared to be 500 years old. He ought to know the age of a song, for he was a member of the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts whicn sat seven years ag(o, and he know*! as much about music as he does about the jaw. For many years he w?.s a prominent member of the choir of St. Mary Abbott's Church, Kensington, and he plays the organ like a professional. Although he is o5 years old, he still has a fine singing voice, and often obliges with a song at social gatherings. He probably owes a great deai of his good health to his habit of early rising. — Of the thousands who have worn and still vrear the Royal Humane Society's decorations for life-saving, Lieut.-general Sir George Bryan Milman, X.C.8., Major of the Tower of London, who has just celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday, is the only man, it ( is said, who has been awarded its gold medal, and that close .on 60 years ago. It .was on June 25, 184-8, at the Mauritius, that he was the means of saving the lives of five officers of his regiment, the sth Fusiliers, who, together with himself, went for a sail. A storm arose and the- boat was capsized. Milman, then a captain, swam to the shore, aome mites away, procured another tx>at, put off, and rescued his brother officers, who had clung to the keel of the coracle. Ten years later ha was with Campbell at the relief of Lucknow, and was mentioned in despatches. — One of the strangest entries in the new "Who's Who" is that associated with the" name of Father Ignatius, the famous preacher, who has entered as his recreation : "Eight services a day in Llanthony Abbey Church." This extraordinary, mata, has jus f celebrated his seventieth, birthday. A Londoner by -birth; "he- earned the name of ' 'Jew-Mad Lyne"— his name . is-, the. Rev. Joseph Lyne — because of his "affection for the Jewish race, which was shown in such acts as that of baring his head to the humblesr "old clo' " Jew dealer he met. Father Ignatius is a man of wonderful eloquence, and has been known to turn a crowd which was dead set against him, so much so that they have flung down their coats and jackets for him to walk upon. He believes in miracles;- and is credited with having performed several. —Mr F. Augustus Heinze, the "Copper King," who is said to have brought about the recent financial crisis in America, is ptartlingly like the great Napoleon. Less than 15 years ago he was a poorly-paid mininjr engineer in Butto, and was known as "Handsome Fritz." To-day ho is 35, and his immense holdings in copper mines, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, are worth over £7,000,000. He graduated at Colombia University, New York, at 19. At 21 he leased a copper mine in Montana supposed to be worthless. Within a month, by Hcinze's new methods of ore-extraction, it was yielding thousands every week. In threo years he bought another mine for £80,00.0. He has had business duels with Marcus Daly, a rival 'Copper King," whi'a H, H. Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate, in a business quarrel, made a "compromise" ! with He;nze and gave him £5,000.000. Hii fathei ia a Gorman and his mother is an Irishwoman. His great ambition in life :f: f to enter the American Senate. — The recent death of Mrs Frances MaeMurrough Kavariagh, the widow o? the Right Hon. Arthur MacMurrougii Kavanagh. Lord-lieutenant of the county o£ Garl<,w, recalls to the memory ona of the most remarkable careers of the last century. Mr Kavanagh, the head! of one of the oldest of Irish) families and the possessor of vasd estates in that country, was born withoufe arms or legs. With magnificent courage he contended against these disabilities. Ho wa a a dating rider to hounds, strapped to his horse; a great traveller in unfrequented and almost unexplored places; a goo*, writer, hii writing with a pen held between his teeth being) as legible as print ; an eccomjJished linguist ; and a powerful and} brill'ant Parliamentary debater. Mr Kaypnagh, of course, addressed the House sitting. He was carried into the Chamber by the attendants, and in divisions was a'< lowed to remain in the Chamber, two teU lers — one from either side— taking his votei,". — Th»> Czar has issued an order thai( several State buildings in St. Petersburg* which had been painted red since the time of Nicholas I, must be re-painted eomw other colour. The fact is, he dislikes th^ colour red. Neither his wife, his daughters, the little grand duchesses, nor the ladies( of iho Court ever wear reef in the Gzar'a presence. His abhorrence of the colour is not due altogether to its associations witJ anarchy and rebellion. When he was quit* a boy he was with his parents at Livadia'.' While walking with some companions on« afternoon Nicholas came upon an old grps^ woman who was telling fortunes. Trier* has always been a strain of the mystio in Cfcir Nicholas ; he insisted that the woman should "read" his hand. Long" she gazed al his palm and studied its lines; then, rapposedly ignoTant of his identity, ah* said I "Son of the Czar, fear the red!" Th« incident deeply impressed him. He deW scribed it to his father and mother, wh<* only laughed at him. But the impression? remained in hie mind, Mid gradually hut grown stronger. The Ozar'e fear of red has been increased by the events of recent ye^ta, and by the knowledge that it is the colpuf ~t the Revolutionist*