PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 3 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The young Marquis of Linlithgow who delivered his maiden speech the other day in the House of Lords, bears a remarkable facial resemblance to his late father, who, as Lord Chamberlain, was intimately associated with the Court during the later years of Queen Victoria’s reign. The present Marquis married a daughter of Sir Frederick Milner, Bart., a former member for the Bassetlaw division, and twin sons were born to them little more than a year ago.

The Khedive of Egypt has just turned thirty-nine, and his birthday was celebrated by the English garrison and colony with much pomp. Tht Khedive has changed much from the boy who, on his first visit to London, preferred the Zoo to Windsor Castle, and also from the half-frightened Prince who sulked under Lord Cromer’s iron rule. He is now popular with his people, respected by the English Colony,and on excellent terms with Lord Kitchener.

Their Majesties have a gorat idea of their responsibility in regard to the valuables of the various Royal Palaces, and from time to time have them recatalogued and re-valued. Those at Buckingham Palace were recently assessed and declared to be worth three and a-lialf millions sterling. It is said that there is scarcely an objee' of art in the whole collection wit which the Queen is not familiar. T f has occurred to those responsible for guarding the safety of the Palace to introduce extra precaution, and it would now be impossible for the cleverest burglar in Europe to make aq entrance without attracting attention. An electric alarm was recently added to the doors and windows and connected with a huge electric hell which sounds in one of the central halls when the necessary indication is given. The police guard around the Palace has also been in creased.

Professor Norwood, whoso season

in Stratford last year will he well re)T membered, lias just returned to New Zealand after a most successful tour of the Australian States. He opens in Wellington on Monday next, and this week is taking a holiday jaunt through the country on his motor bicycle. Professor Norwood spent a short time in Stratford yesterday afternoon and states that he will show here about the end of October. He is accompanied by Mrs Norwood and the same special “subjects” he had with him on his previous visit, and seemed much amused at the story which had preceded him, regarding the alleged death, of the assistant who , did the twenty-four hours’ cataleptic sleep in Messrs Bellringer Bros’, window. “Anyhow,” ho said “my good Stratford friends will, see a very healthy looking ghost when we got right here next month.”