MEN OF RENOWN ABROAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3542, 4 July 1905, Page 4

MEN OF RENOWN ABROAD.

Justice Mathew, of London, who was recently made one of the lord justices of appeal, is a nephew and namesake of the famous IPs the* Mathew, the great temperance advocate. Mayor Dm Planches, the new Italian ambassador, is the youngest ambassador in Washington, befog but 49. He began his diplomatic career as chief of the cabinet of the Italian minister of foreign affairs. Earl Bussell, who has just been released from hie incarceration in Holloway Jail, England, has turned his experiences there to practical account by delivering a largely-attend-ed lecture on British prison life. He said it was not so bad as might be supposed except that the chiropodists were amateurs.

Mnrcellin Berthlot, a distinguished Preach chemist, after discussing the merits and demerits of the ayeteme of capital punishment now in rogue, pronounces* la favor of carbon dioxide, a gas used for the dastruettkm of stray dogs. He says this js • qulot and painless death and one Shat does not shock the sensibilities. Count Uctternieh, who is likely to succeed Count vqn Hatxfeldt so German ambassador to London, is well known in English society. For some years the count was in Egypt, and there formed friendships with considerable numbers of English families wintering <oo the Nils. Count Metternieh is a handsome nun. a fine rider, a philosopher, « thinker and an untiring worker. Be is a profound haHstar to the katoer.