PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 48, 2 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Word received by friends at Midhirsl yesterday from .Mr Alex. Brown, who arrived in England on a holiday visitlast May, state that he is having u

splendid time. He was about to leave for Scotland when writing, and proposes later to visit Ireland and Denmark, with the special object ol seeing for himself something of the butter business in those noted dairying countries. The death of the Marquis de Rochefort Lucay (M. Henri Rochefort;, the French journalist and politicians, is announced by cablegram from London as having occurred at Aix-Jc-Bains (France). The deceased was 82 years of age, having been born in Baris on 30th January, 1831. Ho served on the staff of the Figaro, and established The Lantcrne in 1808 and The Marsellaise in 1869. He was President ol the Commission for Barricades during the siege of Paris, and was elected one of the Representatives ot Paris in the National Assembly in 1871. ' In 1880 he established L’lntrantigeant.

Madame Clara Butt, on the occasion of her first concert of the season in the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday night, 21st nit., our women readers will be specially pleased to read, wore shell-pink satin, veiled and draped with pink ninon, showing the train falling from the V-shaped decolletage and the waist banded by a girdle of diamonds and pearls. On the right of the corsage she wore a natural blue butterfly under crystal, which sparkled and scintillated in the light, and on the left a gold ornament given her by the late Queen Victoria, a silver medal presented to her by the late King Edward on behalf of the Society of Musicians, and a gold Beethoven medal. Her jewels were a sapphire and diamond necklet and pendant, earrings of uncut sapphires and diamonds, and a band of diamonds in her hair. The front of the platform was decorated with a green trellis work entwined with heliotrope and white wistaria, and the sides showed clusters of arum lilies and palms. Madame Clara Butt received several floral gifts, including a Union Jack and an Australian flag draped with flowers and a floral crook.