Personalities.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 367, 21 May 1903, Page 7

Personalities.

j THE KAISER. :r; WIxRHE German Emperor made hiß first SufAS vißit fco England not far short oi taken a to foretell his coming as G&ftati EmpSror. Sadowa was three weeh||}off." Prussia waaVsßll only Prussia, Kinfe splliam had a-gop| many years of lrf a- in him. His son, the Crowa Prince, seemed likely to live as long. Hirf grandson was a little boy of four. He was a very fine little boy, by all accounts, iof whom his mother, our Princess Royal, was quite pardonably proud. The occasion was historic; and, the^Crown Princess of Prussia brought herßoa-wiih her. On March 10th, 1883, little Prince Wiliiam and his mother rode together- the eleventh carriage of a bridal procession from the Castle to the Chapel Royal, at Windsor. wedding daj of King Edward that now is. The Kaiser, as Kaiser, was Qaeen Vicfor the first' time ia-jtn'e'i August of 1886. His father, the Emperor Frederick, had been dead for a year and si* weeks.! On* the last of August William 11. arrived, with a German sqtiadron, at Spithead. Next day he was ,at\Osborni At * naval review he appeared in the uniform of a British Admiral, the rank which had just been given him.- Subsequently he appeared, in his Imperial capacity, for the first time at His grandmother was graciously 1 pleased to accept the-colonelcy of* tue Queen of England's Own;' and at the end of a week the Kaiser was on his way home. -William 11. is bow one of the most- notable figures of the present day.

A CpURT FAVOURITE. Among tie Belect few 'wjio: stfShd in very high favour with our 'BoyalFamily is Lady Hastings. Hejr ltidyship \£as Mibs Elizabeth Harbord,|bne?bE |the many daughters of Lord and'"Lidy' Sheffield," and married Lord Hastings in 1880, when at'-that time they were a handsome and yeujfcnfcl couple of 20 and S3 Lady Hastings has all the charm and graceful refinement ct her ps rents and sisters. Her eldest son, Mr. Albert Edward Astley, had—as" his; name implies—the present king ari his godfather; ,ahd her eldeßt Miss Alexandra Rnoda Astley, who. is now; sixteen, is one of the many goddaughters of Queen Alexandra. Lady Hastings has never herself held a post at Court, and BJBeritfi|o oate ton society functions, her Vmet fifoa nusbastl and children appearing her/thoughts and interests. Lord TKstings belongs to the, smart, sporting, social set. He is a member of the Turf Olub and the Marlborough,; and is also a Steward of ;the3 Jockey Club.; Of late he has taken considerable interest in grape culture, and gained a prize for grapes at the Eoyal Horticultural Society's Fruit Show. Lord and Lady Hastings have spent many months at Cramer ; and this reminds one of-thelwAy in which some of out oldest families seeoi to identify wittt the different j sea-coast towns, and to do all in their power to promote the welfare of their territorial health resorts. "■ \J\ J 'MAD' MULLAH.

-Numerous 'Mad' Mullahs have been heard of in| the last decade, the 'most prominent one hitherto being the warrior in Afghanistan. A mullah is a Mahometan priest or prophet, and a particularly fanatical one'easily acquires the name of 'MadVflSullah. The 'Mad' Mullah operis known to his followers ? aft Haji Muhammad Abdullah, "and belongs to the t Habr - Sulieman OgadenjiEribe. ''HeMa'taan in the prime of life, dark poloured, tall and thin, and ; ias a goat beard. He has made several •.pilgrimages to Mecca; '.and while himself to the sect of Muhammad ijSalih, whosej deputy he claims to be in I Sbmaliland. ! Thftfeect-waa'efetablish'edin J&maliland I about 12 years itjsaches more regularity in the hour of |pjlyer, stricter to the.iorms'of religion, and the ~rnterdiei;io ! h oTPTraTjT a Jptfepjie Arabs and Somalis are much addicted to chewing because pifitsuihtoiicating The mullah is of humble origin, but gifted with considerable intelligence and cunning. ,He claims to have been commanded *W preach the J ehud through a divine inspiration. During the time .that Le was inciting his followers to rebellion against the British authority they demanded of him some evidence of his miraculous power. Having 'the night before , seen ■ a warship flashing, its seatci»}ighits| he* summoned his followers| fo tne beach the following night, and fortunately for him the warship flashed its searchlights - over: |the shore, illuminating the soiißtry" for a great distance. The Mullah: at once pioclaimed it'a's a testimony sent direct from Mahomet, from Mecca. This so impressed Jbhe faci]fc|>Ba£en that they will follow the anywhere.- - - - **—""*"" '*"'

A LOBD | s&tfieth. year, is knJwn|fo|4Ke fpufilic both) as a man of scifjicjj da|?y|»|n, anj£; his work and hil| milk are" alike excellent. It was he who discovered the presence of argon in the atmosphere—that shy retiring gas which is noted for number of things which it doesn't do under 5 Sny circumstances whatever. Lord Baylepgh himself is quiet and retiring, aid- .ife probably the worst hand at self-advertise-ment that ever lived, and if he had not madethi»'startling discovery which appealed to the poproaf imagination few people outside the inner circle of scientists would have ever heard of him, notwithstanding that he is one of the fabHst 'inyestig|ktars|o| ourstimi&. Concerning the "Which* hY mas Hf London, it is related that a little maiden entered one of them, jug hand and gazed in awe atan imposing person in a ~ white apron, who stood behind the counter. Then she held up the jug and piped in humble tones, "Penn'orth o' milk, Lord Bayleigh, please!' Would it have been human nature for the wearer' of the apron to undeceive herp L?rd Bayleigh became, the;, Prime Minister's brother-inJaw at St. George's, Hanover Square, in 1871. He js, v moreover, the senior* wrangler among peers—-that is to say, among peers who were born to., peerage was a rather singular creation. It was granted to his grandmother, 'in consideration of the valuable services of her husband/ ., Joseph Holden, rendered to * fee during the French war.

THE REGENfiI OF : BRUNSWICK.' The question of the succession to the ducal throne is again exercising the mind of the;Germaii Imperial .Govgrnmenti Ax Bill "has been introJuee^ :s f| ifee JSruuß-fi wick Diet the provisions of 'which mean practically that the Regency will be continued 'indefinitely'; r 'The present Prince* Regent Albrecht of Prussia, asecond cousin of the Kaiser, who was ap*-.. pointed ;bj£ the Imperial Government in 1886: The'last Duke died .childless in 1884. There exists a treaty ofrmntuiU inheritance" between tho * houses of Han over and Brunswick, by which if the latter house became extinct the King of Hanover should succeed to the Dukedom I of Brunswick,