PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3304, 11 July 1917, Page 58

PERSONAL NOTES.

Admiral Mayo, who is commanding the Atlantic fleet ot the American navy, was in Jus younger days a noted navigator. He is in Ins sixty-second year, and is said to bo in every respect an exceptional man, having tho eye, the carriage, the mind, and the - manner of one a little more than half his age. The admiral's secret, it is said, consists in working both his officers and his men to tho very limit of their capacity, and delighting them by their discovery that it was so far greater than they supposed. —"A romantic career is recalled by the appointment of Mr J. H. Cann to be Assistant Commissioner of the New South Wales Railways," says the Daily Mail. "Thirtysix years ago Mr Cann was a porter at Temple Station, earning 18s a week. Ha was then 21. From tho Temple Station ho went to Earl's Court as signalman. His health broke down, however, and ho went to Australia, and became a miner, and eventually, as a member of the Labour party, entered Parliament. He has held several posts in the Ministry, amongst them those, of Colonial Treasurer, Secretary of Mines, and Minister of Publio Works. His new appointment is worth £ISOO a year."

Major the Earl of Suffolk, commanding a battery of Territorial Artillery, whoso death has been reported from the Egyptian frontier, served in his younger days as a subaltern in the .Fourth (Militia) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. When war broke out he took his battery to India, from where it went to Egypt. Lord Suffolk married the youngest daughter of Mr L. Z. Leiter, of Washington, a sister of the late Lady Curzon, who had a very large fortune. Ho owned an estate of over 10,000 acres, but resided principally at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury. a stately Jacobean house, which contains a large and valuable collection of pictures, consisting of portraits and old masters. Dryden was a frequent visitor at Charlton, and delighted in sauntering about the woods and glades of the park. The Earls of Suffolk are the heads of a branch of the Howard family, descending from the fourth Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded in 1572 in consequence of his support of Mary Queen of Scots.

The announcement that Raisuli, the famous bandit, has been selected by the Spanish Cabinet as Caliph of the Sultan in Morocco, shows that the many reports of his death during the last few yeara have been "greatly exaggerated." Raisuli is a picturesque figure whom wo would not willingly let die. It is only 13 years since he and his famished men surrounded the villa of a wealthy American near Tangier and carried off the owner. Within a few days a powerful American fleet, under Admiral Chadwick, gathered in Moorish waters, as the result of Secretary Hay's laconic domand: " Perdicaris alive, or Raisuli dead. The Sultan was in a tight corner, but ho acted with true Oriental guile. He showered horours on the American Admiral; he made Raisuli by decree Lord of the Andjera Hills; and Perdicaris was free. Kaid- Sir Harry Maclean, the Scottish soldier of fortune, who served for many years as commandant of the Sultan of Morocco's bodyguard, was also kidnapped by Raisuli; but ho still lives to tell the tale. —" English scholarship, aa well as the religious life of the country, will be the poorer for the death, under grievous circumstances, of Dr Moulton," writes the Manchester Guardian. "Ho has fallen a victim, like so many of our best and greatest, to the fury of a war which ho detested, though he gave to it freely, and lost to it a son of great charm and promise. A gifted Biblical scholar and Orien talist, and an ornament to our University, where he held the Chair of Hellenistio Greek and Indo-European Philology, he exercised also, as classical tutor at the Weslevan College. Didsbury, a deep personal influence on the mind and character of successive generations of students. It was only when the war put an end to his work there that he undertook the missionary journey to India, from which he was returning when his ship wae sunk by a torpedo, and he himself perished two days later from th<j effects of*shock and exposure. He came or a distinguished family—his father was one of the Committee of New Testament Revisers, and his uncle is Lord Moulton, one of the judges of the Court of Appeal,— to which he has added distinction. He represented brilliantly that new strain in Nonconformity which the abolition of university tests in 1871 had brought into the Free Churches, and is said to have been the first Nonconformist minister since Wesley to have been a fellow of his college at one of the older universit : es."