Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 31 March 1914, Page 5

Personal.

The King and Queen are very anxious that their sons shall have a real sense of the value of money and -shall not grow up with extravagant ideas. When tho Prince of Wales was at Osborne, his pocket money was a shilling a week. The same shilling a week allowance was made to Prince Albert,in his training days; and when he was appointed a midshipman he spent his first pay before he had earned it. Prince Henry at Eton has a pocket-money allowance of two shillings a week, and Prince George has a shilling. Christmas and holiday tips in place of presents are much appreciated by the Royal Princes, and when Prince George received a particularly handsome writing-case at Christmas he observed to his brother: "Wish I had the money! Wonder what it will fetch at school?"

Mr and Mrs W. D. Anderson, who have been on a short visit to Stratford, leave for Auckland this evening.

Harry Lauder arrived at Sydney by the Sonoma and was given a great ovation. A procession, headed by the pipers, conducted him to his hotel. Thousands lined the streets.

Colonel Seely, whose resignation from the office of Secretary of War in the Imperial Cabinet is confirmed to-day, is the youngest son of Sir Charles Seely, and is now in his 45th year. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge; he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 13 years ago. He is in ton>mand of the Hampshire Carbineers, and was serving with the Imperial Yeomanry im South Africa when, in May, 1900, Sir Richard Webster was appointed Lord Chief Justice of England, and raised to the peerage as Lord Alverstone, a vacancy thus occurring in the representation of the

Isle of Wight. In spite of his and with the help of his wife, Colonel Seely won the seat as a Conservative, with a four-figure majority. On re-

turning from the war and taking his seat in the House of Commo'is he soon quarrelled with the Unionists on the fiscal question and Chinese labor, and crossed over to the Liberal benches,- and it was as a Liberal that

he was returned for the Abercrornby

division of Liverpool at the following general'election, defeating the eld

Conservative member by a narrow majority of 199. He was unseated in ,t January, 1910, but entered Parliament i'agdin im March, 1910, for the Tikes- £ ton- division of Derbyshire. He was Under-Secretary for War from 1911 ; ito 1912, and*: in the lattetf year enter- ;, ed the Cabinet..