Personalities.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 402, 21 January 1904, Page 7

Personalities.

,; ;"■;, ;: : ;,„ oEiiONpE, :-;,, ;s | :.; of the moat enthusiastic yaohfs£j4ft men is lord Ormonde. He mat3|fc§W ried the lovely Lady Groavenor, Westminster, and of <D oohess Constance,' "who tyiß&tfyf So long a very important";'it not the moat important, figure in London sccitty. Ljrd Ormonde ependa a,good dtjaiat'Cowel;' Indeed, he is riever |uitS so happy any where as ha is onboard his yacht: His"'tnroTcFaogfiSr¥ are very considerable heiresses, fpr. the. late Lilfbrd divided his large> fortunei bet ween t hem,; but he has no eon, and his brother, I Lord J ArtbuV Bafcler is the next heir; Lord Ormond is Ohief Hereditary Butler of Ireland, and in virtue of his, office? receives » golden {fdblet as hia perq aiaite on the occasion'of thd Coronation. There exists at Kilkenny Castle a most interest* | ing historical record in the shape of * Coronation Cups.i" Tae f «pirifige,' gor obri|age, which they use*l to; reoliyejin fheexercise of their hereditary du'oies,' and' which consisted.of valuable Hke, so many of 'the. 'perks' o*f former Wgß?' long ceased*ttf exist. ;r *~ 1 '; l "V*? ' ; , 'VETEKAN lEISH PEEB. Lord de Mantait is now approaohisg hie eighty-Bxfch birthday. Me foririißa^ew he group of venerate tpeers;; .w.hs£wwnfc resent in Wt>«iaiin*Ur : Ablwy on the

'OMfcsioo'of King Edward's Coronation; In the days of Ms youth, he attended the crowning of thelateQaeen Victoria, and at both ceremonials appeared in the rpbes: worn by his father in the far dis'..tint.\pasfe. a%the Kitig George IV. Lord de Hontalt'a eldest ;soh .was kfl . d loagyearß ago invthe flrtt Boer '■*»r,;a, d he-nowhasi<ab son alibis. But he la Hj father of; many, daughter, bothi married and, unmarried. Theae include pei.S Lady JTlorea'ce Maude remains single, and is her father's constant com. fSanipn at !safidruirif family place is Tipperary, and alio in Dab!in and London. She is a good woman of business and an admirable shot, and manages the shooting on the estate almost entirely herself. Lady Antonia Maude, the youageet of this family, is* • bright,and pretty-looking, and''remainsnraoh in London. TheMandes are an old - familj 'in the South of Ireland, and j ?6wned lands in Kilkenny ' many centuries j age.* They are a talented race, with more ;of enterprise than be found in J these aneient 5 lordiKoF the soil,: JIMJI Cyril Maude, the popular aotd£ is aJmeß^ ber of thedeMontaltfamily.

•SIB BOBEBTJ3&LL. The great astronomer, Sir Eobert Ball who is sixty-three, can Bea stars, and talk about them without the being charged with Staying too late at the club. He: has; been Astronomical Profeasor of Cambridge for a decade,; but he remains a ; thorough Irishman 'Btill, as many thousands of people all over the country who have listened to his witty and fluent lectures on the science of the stars, delivered in the most mellifluous of brogues, ban testify. His career as an astronomer dates back to 1865, when, shortly after leaving Trinity College, Dublin, he in charge of the famous private observatory . established by the iJarl of Kosse at ParsonatowD, King's County, Ireland, which at one time rejoiced in the possession of the biggest telescope in the world. is renowned for his happy.and humorous comparisons between the celestial and the terrestrial. When>;the. possibility bf-aig-nallingjbo Mars was under discussion he pointed out that if a flag of the size of Ireland was waved from a pole to match there was just the ghost of a caance that an astronomical Martian might perceive the ghost of a flatter upon tUe Earth.

PBINCESS CHABLEB AT HOME. Princess Maud 3 she is often called—the prettiest jof the King's daughters [cosy* residence at Appletdn,: near >Sandnngham. It is a small country 1 house, bat the grounds are pretty, and oontaia a wishing well and the rains of an old church. There is a large lake covered with water-lilies, and in these latter Princess Claries takes a keen and personal interest. Before her marriage to the popular Prince Charles of Denmark the Princess used to travel abroad with a German governess and stay ati Continental hotels under the name of Miss Mills. She is smaller and more petite than her sisters. When young the Princesses had a most careful education, and the outside world knew little or nothing of their characters and accomplishments. They were permitted to have very few friends beyond their own family. Princess Charles is a very clever and many-sided woman. She can spin and do plain needlework in an age when these old-world accomplishments are out of date; she speaks three or four languages, even Russian, the hardest to learn of all European languages. ' ,i r '