Personalities.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 2

Personalities.

Hi M : r^MlM''f ■ ':&' J LORD AND iADr 7 | qftcJlS King Has honoured'by another"' jKA visit, has been described as a highly useful as well as an ornamental Peer. His zeal for public work in London is remai kable. ' The most popular Governor who ever went to Australia' §halfin|rfoDprtant C&wrfc at hoine, and-is i "great personal friend of Mb Mujasty, while his record oh the London County Council,, especially as .chairman of ste Fire B|i|a<fe| Committee, is well known." Lady" Carringfbn ia'a ■ <4ftughi«Hw>£ Btill a vary pretty woman; and tht ir son, YiscouHt Wellesley,dßra remarkably/;gpodlooking 6oy ; of eight years. • The^irdest : "'dfraghteT'iß jan. While it is generally admitted that a. bright and witty . iapaafcsfc, therejiaivejfte'ejl jhqsa; Who have - -thought otherwise*.. HeVhjmseJf how, when he first official appearance at a mayoral dinner at Sidney, he secretly on th£ shortcut neat speech in which he " acknowledged the i toast of his health. He had hardly sat down, however, when a fat man sitting opposite' 't6 him observed'iu'an audible -aside, ?Thank God, he can't apeak !' But that was long ag0.,... ~-..: i,x-:

lc '& MAfiQ&ISiOP AILESBUES". A fairly keen m»n of business is the--Marquis of Ailesbury, , He i 5...60 years of age, and .succeeded in 1894 his nephew, themarquis whose eccentricities and matrimonal troubles furnished" ~ Society with niueh material! conversation in their day. The spendthrift maiquis was ggnjskmft to sell th%eatat.es to Lord Iveagh, but the present peer intervened, and succeeded at a huge cost ~£20,000 it was said stopping, the sale,, and when at last the jwtaie into his -own ; hec set. hitpself at once to retrieve the property by] udicious management. The "most remarkable part of the is Severnaka Forest, near Marlborough, a magnificent tract, 16 miles in circumference, and containing some of the most picturesque woodland scenery hi England. The forest is particularly famous ■' ios - ifcs 1 daks and Spanish chestnuts, and contains a large number of red deer. Tottenham House, where.the marquis and marchioness spend the greater pare of their time, is a magnifioent pile built by the Earl of Burlington, and "finished is—lß23r and contains a number of historical treasures, including the swords o2 Bobert Bruce and the Black JDsuj£laa^/__

. I ; AIEES BEWARE ! The fabulously wealthy set in America "aijir distressed and excited,- Mr Francis Marion 'Griffith means to persist with a resoluticn in Gohgress to limit private fortunes to two; millions sterling. He should know something about the possibility of so drastically amending American Jaw.. «Mr Gladstone, was wont to call the ~Ariiericari'Xollßtitutibri the greatest work ever struck off 'atbrie'time : by human MrGiiffith canonly carry his as an .amendment to the Con. »BsMjutipn j .hut jhe^has.been twenty .in practice as^a lawyer)' arid' may"ba pre* ' sume'd/Weieiore," to' understand- -the task to which he has set is a Democrat, ; representing Indiana, the' Scajfce s was educated in the country" schools of his : State; 'arid • afterwards 2fc£ "Kranklin Col-; lege; ana after a long experience at the -Bar he entered; : tha-, State, iLagislflture. .Mr .Griffith, who ia-,51 this year, has been five years in Congress, and has the courage of his politicaLoonyictiojis. adw-ti-ioi U.-H-.''- " u br-l?rederiok ; Coweri' is v a> jgreat; favourite iin leading, musical circles. He has j ast celebrated.. his fiftyfirst and up. ~right( . of carriage,' and with the healthy look of J One who lives much in the open •air, he does not at all convey the imipression.ofa professional musiciaa. As a matter of fact,_he is fond of exercise, and cycling is one of his favourite diversions, between" which" and the more sedentary * occupations of :theA book worm "his leisure hours are largely shared. He was born 'in-"Jamaica, bdtjlsb^lajbfrom imitating Mr Lear's old. man, he has never married :ftt all, living with=hi3 . mother in a pretty house at »t."John's Wood. Vi He is kindly, mOdesti : and pjpularV .and, as he once 'wrote-of himaslf.;/ Uisitf) JDf.-kißdlyjsynipathising friends he knows ;,_;,-. there.is no lack, . yn ; Bin; "Me seldohi' sees their' faces, thbugh they often see his back! uhc V*»iw - r A DEPOSED,QUEEN, i :A Ah unhappy; woman, mv. ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. She cannot console herself to the. change from living in * royal palace and wearing a crown. Qaaen Liliuokalani has bson compensated tor the loss of her throne by an award of .£88,475 by a oommittee of the American S-.;aate. It is not a mean sum, and as her throne has been sold by auction. and the Court of .Hawaii is, dissolved. Queen Liliuokalani will probably cease troubling White-.House, and settle down to enjoy her new-found fortune. Qaeen Liliuq-, kalsiii has'' pleaded - passionately for her peopia's independence—how passionately only those, who 5 have read her. poemß and letters can know. She .has. repudiated with-scora-the suggestion that:her people were savages, and is proud to be able to remind the' scoffers that she sat next to the Gar man Emperor at Qaeen Victoria's dinner-table, and that Qaeen Victoria received her in-special audience, and that she was present in Westminster Abbey at Qieeri Victoria's jubilee: But royal 1 life in. Hawaii*; j even according to the;, ex-. Qaeen's own account of 'ic, was far re T moved from an ideal state of things when the United States stepped m and took the islands over, i Qaeen "Lsliriokalania has tpJ4; .how, whan her brother, King KalaVana, was dying, his queen made his last hours a torture by insisting that he should naoio. her as his successor, and 'when.at laßt the king. died, declaring in his 3ast.words that ! the people: should choose his successor, the widowed Qaeen Emma and her followers made an attack upon the legislative chambei? Furniture was demolished, valuable -books, documents which, belonged to the of. Attorney-General's 'Office, were scattered abroad or thrown from the windows. Clubs were ; freely usedi ; on such unlucky : members as could be found within the walls, and soms were through the »pen ' windows.;by tbemadand many men were sent to trie 3 hosp i jtal for treatment of tn'eir broken headVor bruised' Dodies. -r-* ;: -••'■ ; ~-m s <.

••'"• ' 'j WEALTHY; n Of ciSurse, it wasva'.manuVho once Glared; that widows rjuie Jbpndoh. The .reigning. Duchess of Beaufort 'was, flrs£ Miss Harford and then Baroness Carlo de Tnyll, Lady the 1 premiere Marchioness, was also a widow—Mrs Samuel Gasnett,. ■ Lady .Yerulam wa? Mrs Maokintoshy.Lady Eavenswor.h was the beautiful M«, Robert.Ashton $ Cora Lady Stafford wa^thS'rich Mis Colgate, fo NeV York- ; 'an4 recently Ambassadress at Borne—was Mrs Singleton.