ENGLISHMEN OF NOTE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3529, 1 June 1905, Page 4

ENGLISHMEN OF NOTE.

Viscount Moan tmorrea Is a bona fide English nobleman who works hard lor a living. I’orn wry poor —tin- p0../e»l in the kingdom, indeed—he ha.% worked at several trades and was oi.ee a ... >' -• boy. : Gen. French has proved to be the most successful ot a.l the Kugiisll (.i- ---. vision command .-I - .- in Sou: h Africa, for be not only 1..*.-- made no mUtaki s. but has done i. IVi.ci ivc. wo; U from i he ■ very beginning or iiis eauipaipn in the • eastern Transvaal. Recently, on liis ninety-first birthday, Rev. John Spurgeon, father of A .the famous Charles Spurgeon, preacher, laid the foundation stone of the South Norwood Haptisl church in Knpe land. He .i a C’onprepatiunalist and -.probably is the oldest living minister I, of that denumina 1 ion. John Morlcy rarely “takes his walks ad" without one or more- of his \ pet dogs, to which he is devotedly attached. In his old journalistic days I his favorite (log a) way s accompanied ’him (o his office, waiting patient’.} for him until the day's work wan over and it was time for thehomeward joiiry. Always a preat smoker, the king of England since his succession has t smoked harder than ever. The czar of U ii;-sia ami kaiser of (!ermany. when they waul to please him. send him special brands of cigar-- and cigarettes, and the king in return dispatches to those august- personages his own favorite bran n>.