PERSONA ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2025, 9 March 1907, Page 4

PERSONA ITEMS.

Lord Cole, eldest son of Lord Enit- niskillcu, has a unique souvenir in the shape oi a fireman’s discharge, r ‘* which he earned by working as a stoker for exercise on board tho Carisbrooko Castle while on a voyage home from South Africa. * Carnegie has no smoke-room in ~, Skibo Castle. Visitors who smoke % must join the gardiner in tho toolshed or tho coachman in tho loosebox, far from tho eye of their, host. Tho Duke of Connaught, returning u from India in H.lvl.S. Renown, showed much interest in the lot of tho naval stokers, and wont down, suitably dressed, and plied a shovel amid the astonished coalics, to the horror of his suite. But at the end of half an hour ho had to confess " that 110 had had enough, and that the work of tho stokers was even harder than 110 had thought. JMr Sargent, It.A., the famous por- • trait painter, owes something to live countries. Ho was born in Italy, his parents were Americans, he was educated for some time in Germany and in France, and 110 lives in London. Tho Marquis of Graham, who is learning shipbuilding and engineering on the Clyde, says that nautical schools should bo established in or near all the chief seaports, the principal instruction for the boys to be seamanship, and they should be sent regularly on a voyage in a sailing training ship. Phil Newbury, the tenor, who is to return to Australia this year, was one of the soloists at the Christmas performance of “The Messiah” in Belfast (Ireland). “The Life of - adame Melba—- ■ Woman and Singer” has been writ- 1 ten, and is to be published shortly. 1 The “Life” is in all probability the ■ work of Miss Agnes Murphy, who is now in the United .States as Madame Melba’s press agent and private , secretary. ' President Roosevelt has induced James B. Connolly, a popular writer v of sea stories, to enlist as a cadet in s the American navy for two years, t Mr Roosevelt wishes tho American v navy to be “exploited” as tho Bri- p tish army has been by Kipling. Mr £ Connolly will have unusual privi- d leges, including a private cabin. 7*

In a “Now Year’s Greeting’’ in a Labor Leader Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., says :—“I have a profound distrust of party newspapers eulogies of Ministers, or coming men, but in common fairness, I must say that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has earned, and fully deserves, all the praise which is being heaped upon him. He seems to bo mellowing with ago, and to be really desirous of effecting some useful social legislation. Of one thing, at least, I have convinced myself, that where the Liberal performance falls short of its promise the blame will not rest with ‘C.B.’”

It is common knowledge that it was a romantic attachment which kept the lato Baroness Bind 41Coutts a. spinster until she was very Hourly 70 years of ago. Jr, may not, however, ho universally known that tho object of this romance attachment was none other than Count Alfred D’Orsay, poet, >xquisito, sportsman, sculptor, and arbiter of the elegancies. Tho handsomest man of his ago (even Byron in verso admired him), tlio friend of Lady Blossington, whoso daughter lie married, and tho companion and confidant of Prince Louis Napoleon, little wonder if the late Baroness for so long Haunted the willow for him. Sho might have done worse; and, certainly, her romantic fidelity served to save'-her from falling into the hands of many a. fortune-hunter. ’Phe Revising Barrister in the Colchester Revision Court has been not unnaturally amazed at being confronted with the polysyllabic and voluminous name of Lieutenant Tollemaclie. Mis amazement would have heon considerably greater had he been confronted with the names of that gentleman’s brothers and sisters, cousins and aunts. The gallant lieutenant’s father —Ralph Win. Lionel Tolleinache-Tollemacho —had a fine eye for a pedigree and a fine ear for sound, and as the children of his two successive marriages appeared 110 bestowed on them names of appalling length and unconventional! ty. Hero are a few out ' of the list of eleven: Mabel Ehningham Ethel Huntingtower Beatrice Blazouberrio Evangeline Vise do Lou do Orellana Plantagenet Taodmag Saxon. Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine Curson Paulct Wilbraliam Joyce Eugenie Bentley Saxonia Dysart Plantagenet. Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Taodmag Hugh Ercliemvyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Ormn Nevill Dysart Plantagenet. Lyona Docima Veronica Esytli Unline C.yssa Hvlda Rowcna. Viola Adela Thyra Ursula Isabel Blanche Lei ins Dysa rt Plantagenet. Lyonella Edith Regina Valentine Myra Polworth Avelina Philippa IColantha do Orellana Plantagenet , and Lyonulph Cospatrick Bruce Berkeley' Jcrmine Tullibardine Petersham do Orellana Dysart Plantagenet. The size of the family Bible in which these names were recorded would, we imagine, be what printers describe as “double elephalit.”