PERSONAL PARS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

PERSONAL PARS.

Coffee, biscuits, and a pipe compose jio breakfast menu of Sir Douglas flaiu. * * * The Bishop of St. David's has gone to the front to ait as chaplain to the Welsh Division. * * * Air. Leopold do l'othsehild Ls sa-d to Jiave declined over twenty times in the past seven years to write a beok of " Recollections." * * * * Dr. Davidson, Archbishop cf Canterbury, is one of the seven non-Royal personages who have been given the rare distinction of the- Victorian Chain, which is usually bestowed only upon .members of the 1?oval Family. * * * Mrs. Wynne. \vho>e Red Cross work in Flanders won for her the Croix do Guerre and the Order of Leopold, is now in the Caucasus, where she -s -officially attached to the Russian army, and wiil accompany it during the present campaign. # * » Mr. John Redmond, the leader ot the Irish party, i.s among the wealthiest representatives of the Emerald Isle n Parliament. Formerly he was employed as a Committee Clerk in the House of Commons. • » • « King Nicholas of Montenegro, who is now enjoying French hospitality at Lyons, is a poet and a dramatist. He has published at least one volume of Serb poetry, in addition to two tragedies, "Prince Arbanit." and "The Empress of the Balkans." * * * * One of the best 'iurkish scholars m Great Britain is Lord D'Abernon, chairman of the board responsible for the drastic licensing restrictions. When he was a young man he passed the stiff examination for student dragoman at Constantinople, but chose the Coldstream Guards. Mr. H. G. Wells —a British subject, but not the novelist—now interned at Groningen. in Northern Holland, has been awarded a bronze medai and certificate for a splendid act of gallantry in saving the live sof several persons by stopping, at great risk, a couple of runaway horses.

Belgium lias jrst had its war romance in the shape of the marriage of Mr. Charles Coirstairs, of Philadelphia, member of tlie American Relief tommittee for Belgium, and Mile. Helena Gujnott. daughter of the Burgomaster of Bellccourt. Mr. Brand Whit-lock, the United States Minister in Brussels, was the best man. * * * * Lady Derby is keenly interested in the movement for the employment of women in agriculture, and last autumn she alighted from her motot-car one day and assisted the girl pickers to gather potatoes from one • "i in the Ormskirk district. Mrs. I .iwstorne, wife of the Bishop of Wha ley, is daily .learning to plough in order assist in ■the movement. * * * Of English war-writers, the two most popular in America are Rudyard Kipling and Hilaire Belloc. * * * A room at York Cottage has bo n set aside for the reception of various war trophic* brought hone by the Prince of Wales. * * * Mr. Arnold Bennett, Tvhose latest novel, "These Twain," has lately been published, confesses that it is easier to write a play than a novel. Ho would rather write two plays whan one novel. * * * Sir Frederick Bridge, in a contribution to the discussion on the banning of German music, says: — "Modern German music always frightens me. i call it the grave-yard school." *** * . General Smuts, Commander-in-Clnef in East Africa, was born on a little Cape farm, and when he was at Cambridge he swept t'.ie board of more prizes than any man had done tor half a century. ** * * Princess Alexander of Teck is helping in the kitchen at Princess •Christian's Red Cross Hospital, Englelield Green, near Windsor, where she helps to cook the meals and to " wash ui»" afterwards.

Among the treasured possessions of Professor H. B. Lees Smith, MP. f 'or Northampton, is the fourpence bestowed upon him by two privates when he was "'corporal in charge'' of certain baths somewhere in England.

Sir Alfred Newton (says the '■Outfitter") replying to a war-time economy suggestion that Harrod's should curtail their advertisements, said m his view it would be absolutely suicidal to do anything which would cut off tkeir communication with customers.

Dr. Coward, in a spirited address at Sheffield recently, urging the banning of all German music composed s.'nce 1870, affirmed that for the last lii'ty years German art had steadily been -brutalised. It was the, "saucrkrauting of art," he declared.

Tie Sock-tic Franca is? J Acvi..natation, of Paris, lias struck o.it tie name of King l'Widnand of Buigaiia f.ora the list of it< members, and p->id the amount of hi- subscription to M. \«?snitcli, the .Servian ]\llti:.-tor, for distribution anions the Servian wounded and poor. * * * * Mr. Herbert Samuel ha*, tl:' u:r.-|ue rli.-t Miction of iK-iuj; tl:e or.'.y Sl.l\ or Cabinet Minister who has c.-intrib'iv.-d an illustration to a Whit-e i'.'.pcr. V> mm Mr. Samuel was travelling m Can: ml Africa some war- ago lie -.ok :\r. .x* rellent photograph of the Hi;i a i-'.'li? .111 the Zambi'-i, and tl:is duly rippfared in the next Hire !'.• ak d • •'".)» v. it: t.:: t part of Africa. * * * * Colonel John Ward, ?I P., v.::-, 1..1r.ii.v'd four pioneer l.jt'alM!;- ot t:.-.-Middlo-cx Kej/iiiit lit, nearly _'n m : - Lors of which have been resulted t'- :a the Navvies' I'ni.in, say- t!:et he has only attended the lluo-o oi ::rto!;s for tour hours during tee past y« a:\ when l:e went to Hippos t the J-«.i!i : . ry Sia vi'-i Hill, whie'i some V won] 1 "(criiiinly liavc; oppo <ed."