People and Their Doings.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 6

People and Their Doings.

A Christchurch Man in the Solomons Who Appreciates the “Star” : The Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Burke-Jones : The Otago Team's Mascot.

“ A RT LOVER ” writes:—To-day is the hundredth anniversary of the birth at Birmingham of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the celebrated artist, who once made the remark: ‘‘l should like to paint and paint for seventeen thousand years.” He was powerfully influenced by Rossetti, who said to Burne-Jones, when he was making his first attempts a? a painter: ‘‘lf any man has any poetry in him, he should paint: for it has all been said and written, and they have scarcely begun to paint it.” All his subjects were of a poetical and imaginative character. He furnished many striking designs for stained glass, of which the windows at Christ Church, Oxford, represent his best work. He died in 1898. There are none of the works of Burne-Jones in Christchurch. igp WILLIAM GOODLET and his dog Toby, the official mascots of the Otago Rugby fifteen, live in retirement now, but once Mr Goodlet was a familiar figure about the Otago Varsity. He was assistant to Professor Black, of the Faculty of Chemistry, and later janitor of the library. He picked up no inconsiderable knowledge of chemistry which he dispensed freely, and many of the medical students told him afterwards when their examination days were over that they owed their success to his help. Now he is the mascot of all royal blue touring teams and the friend of all past and present Otago University medical students. §2? <52? QHRISTCHURCH MEN are scattered far and near, and to those in the outposts of civilisation the Christchurch “ Star ” comes as a boon. One subscriber to the ‘‘ Star,” Mr T. Donald, formerly well-known in Christchurch motoring circles, is now manager of a plantation in the British Solomon Islands. To him on his lonely plantation—there is not another white man for many miles—the “ Star ” comes as a blessing. Writing to a friend, he says: “My ‘Star’ goes the rounds of all the Enzedders in the islands. Mine finish up in Wilhelmshafen. Papua.” There are all manner of pests in the Solomons, but by far the worst, says Mr Donald, are the mosquitoes. All work is done by the natives and they require firm handling. The life, however, apart from its loneliness, the mosquitoes and so on, has many attractions.

]\|R ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY, the American mining millionaire, is applying to the Home Secretary for naturalisation as a British subject. Before the War, Mr Chester Beatty was associated with exPresident Hoover in several enterprises. He is a director of diamond and copper mines, and has been a leading figure in London financial circles for years. He is also a well-known collector of Oriental and Western manuscripts. Some of these when offered for sale realised £26.552 in an hour. His son, Mr Alfred Chester Beatty, jun., last vear married a step-daughter of Mr Roland Oliver,. K.C. Mr Chester Beatty, sen., is a descendant of James Beattie, the Scottish parson poet. On his father’s side his ancestry is Scottish and Irish, and on his mother’s side English and Huguenot. Mrs Chester Beatty is an American, and a prominent hostess and racing owner in England and Egypt, where she and her husband have a beautiful winter home at Bait-el-Azrak, Mena. Mrs Beatty is one of the few women who race under Jockey Club and National Hunt rules in England. Three years ago she decided to curtail her racing activities in England. Only a few months previously she had bought a Tetratema filly, bred at the National Stud, for 11.000 guineas. In 1927 she paid 11,500 guineas for.a brood mare. 3S? Jp'IGURES disclosed on probate of the late Sir 'John Ellerman's estate appear to constitute a record for Great Britain. In recent years the greatest estate was that of Sir George Wills, the tobacco magnate, who left £10,00(1,000. The figures for some of the members of the Coats family, of cotton fame, approach this sum. These two families and certain of the Rothschilds have several millionaire members. Sir John Ellerman made his money in shipping and London real estate. In England, silk is a surer foundation for a fortune, as eight millionaires are silk manufacturers. Banking has made men like Sir Samuel Hoare and Sir Phillip Sassoon millionaires. artificial silk has done the same for Major J. S. Courtauld, M P , and vast fortunes have come from whisky and beer. Many of these are eclipsed by those of American magnates, but the richest man in the world is said to be an Indian potentate, the Nizam of Hyderabad, whose fortune is estimated at £400.000,000. not including the immensely valuable State Jewels, which have not been appraised.

nPHIS STORY of a remarkable display of fortitude and endurance by two Australian children has attracted a great deal of attention on the other side of the Tasman, writes a correspondent. Stanley Kelly, aged 6 years 10 months, and Maurice Kelly, aged 5, his brother, were lost in the dense bush near Orbost, Eastern Victoria, for three days and two nights. July is the State's coldest month and the east is its coldest part. The little boys were barefooted and clad only in knickerbockers and shirts. They had been sent on a message and decided to take a short cut on the way back by following a bush-track. They wandered into a dense wilderness of towering eucalyptus trees, bracken, tree ferns and native shrubs. There were stony ranges and deep valleys. About 400 bushmen—small farmers, timber getters and drovers—gathered from a radius of 50 miles to search the forests, travelling on horseback and afoot. To a cry of distress the Australian bushman responds immediately, almost at any cost, for help is part of the bush code. Mount Raymond and its forest-clad foothills resounded to the Australian bush call of “ Coo-ee.” 9 9 9 J ATE on the third day, a lone bushman named Morrell saw through the timber two diminutive, half-naked little chaps making a bed of bracken in a hollow tree, before which they had rigged up a rude brush break-wind. They said they were making camp for the night. The night before they had made beds of bracken in a hollow log and, cuddling together, they had kept warm. The infants' limbs were torn and sharp fiagments of bush rock had become embedded in their inflamed feet. When the young one had tired the elder had carried him pickaback. They were still cheerful and confident of finding their home. When asked if they had fed on grubs and leaves they laughed heartily and said *‘No.” Throughout the three days they were entirely without food. The little lads have a step-father. 9 9 9 CIXTY YEARS AGO (from the “Star” of August 28, 1873) : Theatrical. —A company, consisting of Miss Juno, Mrs Phillips, Mr and Mrs Garner, Mr and Mrs Andrews. Mr Hans Phillips, Mr and Mrs Gladstanes, Mr Byrne, and others, has been formed in Victoria to travel through the Australian colonies and New Zealand, commencing at Geelong on August IS. It is to be styled “ The Heloise Juno Star Comedy Company,” and it will be under the direction of the lady whose name serves for its distinguishing title.