Personalities.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 24 March 1904, Page 7

Personalities.

MB. CABNEGIE AND HIS HQMES. MSKONSIDEBING that he is not very fi«fcr far from being a septuagenarian—afegjJ he will enter his seventieth year in 1904—A-ndrew Carnegie is a wonderfully jonthful and enterprising man. M st people, even if they are millionaires, find the building of anew home a tolerably serious undertaking;. Mr Carnegie has recently completed two—a huge and splendidly-appointed castle in Scotland, and a costly, though not particularly showy, palace on Upper Fifth Avenue; not to mention a cottage in Winchester County, a comparatively tiny affair, costing a mere trifle of a hundred thousand dollars. For some years Mr Carnegie's New York residence was on Fifty-First-at., just west of Fifth Avenue. Whan he decided to build a house worthy of his great fortune, he purohased the whole block between Ninetieth and Ninetyi Firat-sta., fronting on the chosen avenue of fashion.

LOBD TALBOT. Lord Talbot de Malahide, the first Irish landlord to offer to sell his estates to his tenants under the,new Land Act, is the fifth holder of a title which was conferred as recently aa 1831 on the widow of Bichard Talbot, of Majahide Cistle, who was herself a member of the Miieaian princely housa of Brtffaey. The recent creation of the title does not imply any lack of antiquity in the family of Talbot, which has owned the castle and lordship of Malahide, on the Dublin ee&c past, since the first introduction of English government into Ireland. It furnishes, m fact, a rare instance of a baronial estate having continued for upwards of six hundred and fifty years in the male heirs and name of the original grantee. Of the nine great feudal houses which survived the Wais of the Boses only three'are now in existence in the male line, and Talbot of Malahide is one of them In 1172 Bichard Talbot crossed the Irish Channel in the train of Henry 11., and obtained for the services of his Bword the Lordship of Malahide* from that monarch, and from Edward IV, the Admiralship of the adjoining ssas, a privilege which the family retains to the present day. Richard's only brother, Gilbert, inherited Ecclaawoll, in Herefordshire, and was the ancestor of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England. That title, however, was not oreated till 1442, and la thus three hunnred years younger than the lordship of Malahide. The Castle of Malahide stand* on an eminence overlooking the bay. The grounds are nobly wooded, many of the oaksj dating back to Tudor .days. , The hall of the Castle is one of the purest specimens of Norman architecture in the kingdom.