NOTABLITIES AT VRITHDAY.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1513, 23 February 1885, Page 3

NOTABLITIES AT VRITHDAY.

» I Mr A-ohibill Fk-lih, i» the cvjrs« ; •of an article in thu Sy Insy Moniin r ; Herald on En, 'land's winter watering- ; place, writes as follows : — j Brighton has its unwritten laws. Ol ' weekdays you may dress how you like ; lint on " Church Parade," the <$reat , Hunday promotiad« from 1 to 2, it tide \ rii/wur to appear in a frock coat and ; tall hat. You may walk on the Kitty's ; road when you please, either forenoon ! <t afternoon, and ride as well — alldiy ' the esplanade is crowded with gi*o ipn of yotinsj eqwsfrie in ••undt*r the. tuition of solemn riding-misteis ; but it is only in th« afternoon that it is the correct tbin^ to drive. The concourse of carriages commences about 3, ami lasts till the dusk corns? up oat of thn S3*, j Solemn clrviots of dowagers ; smut britskis a-ii landiui; tie Sjj i^h^ly Victji-ia, wivli th^ hefi red serv.ints au-l Ilia hi^ii-sti?}ipi;i^ hoi-^s;miil ]>l>ae v J oii3 dt'ivfn t>y inoustached old gentleman sittiu- solitary, or by ra »re youthful Jeh-is who pr»-fHr feiriiniuw <:rttnii-i tionhip; nutty dogcarts with vlever co ><: bjtw.?Hii t!ie s'laffcs; here ' and there a four in hand, a tandem or tvo, and a yood in:my op j n Ilie3, filled — nofc to crovdfd — with und«ni ably \-AV-jfi faniUifw. The promenade is so thron^i'd* tint fast w-vlkins; is impracticible, and kio.vn faces row ' fiont one at every step. Trim iittJe JaHie'J, in the neatest (tf costumes and the daiiitifMt of hats and l>oi.>t% work their dexterous way aniO'i-,' t!in b.ith chairs, around some of which hover a <t<)W(' of mile person^; for it i< ritlsor the fashion of b-auty at B'i<*Vo 1 to at'f.fot I w*n: iv\\ th> rf ,r)ose of a well-padded '»it'i cliair. , Soldier otfijer.i, hile, sever«, «nd ch-an ' F!in\en and close cropn-'d, w.iik i-i ; ronple.s. contrasting with hiisnt" ! Fqures, hearded colonists, aid h/istly • civilians of the Indian s«rvic«. Tiiis clapper litter man with the grey mom 1 ta^'iG; is a general .»f etvalry, who Kd j one of tie heavy rft^imeut3 into the j cavalry charge ; he has tnk ;n to politics now, and would fnin regain the s^it ' fjf B.'i^hton li« lost at the. liit electio:). That tall ni.-tii wiri) his lo.oij I V)lack beard is another Brighton ex i M.P. — a mighty traveller, t»>o; he was in A'iitnilia t:io other day. Here come a couple worth noting — -the lady | tall, with a graceful waik not of this , ■country — listen to her accents as you pass and you will reco^nis* her for an A'iJ"ri(;au — is no ia oth-r than Mary Anderson, the actress about whom tile iowii went mad last autumn, for tickets to who 39 first night on S -itur lay, when «he reopens tlie Lyseum in ■• Ho neo And Juliet," a fi«r<;e stfu^'e is ra^in^ <le die in diem, tl'-r companion— the short lithe inn;, with the jjreat eyes, the 4ou^ Mack iiiiustiii'-iie, and lie mideuiAbl« :4«<»fcfrli f,ic«-^is the novelist who tias delighted Uionstnls in 'x,t 1 !ietni<sphei'Hj) with hin " tViua^s ofT.nile," his D;m^ht"r of HeMi," aid luk ♦'Beautiful Wretch." Way there f>j 'tlils compact, Kjiuro-Bhouldtred man.

J with the strong loud laugh, thi j swuithy rubicund visage, the remark ;t ' aide nose, aid the. red tie ! Tha v I laagb you will hear and that visa<»< (j i see soon qus in you own land -tin 1 j lau o h and face of the mo3t brilliam 1 I jonmatist, eloquent oratoi", <md wide rallying Scholar c.f his day and ««iiHi-a-fion — isoneotlsertlian George Anjfnstn? Sila. Tije slender little mm by him, Mr.tlt the fragile eager face, so b-aiUiful in its motile, is Lord Ronald Gower, th« younger brother of thp Duke of rfoutherland — author, sculpt or, onthnsi ast, and good fellow. Lswh Win^Sstl.J winters ul-<rer-clii(l, with thought o;i hia bfow. Ho shares with Gorlwiu tlie reputation of having 1 the fiillest knowledge of the co=M ! nes of by-»o:iH d ivs. and hia work now, in r lui^f interval from w; - itins» not over j^ood liOve's, is; t!iH '• divssin^" of th" new piece nt the Lvcf.un. A heavy baro'ii-iie roils by c!osf» to the. ltils, a-sd one reco^nisi-s at a glance it-* rauli* O'^tin.int by the psrt iiptnvner! mosp, the firm clear-ent. chin, the bn-=hy red 'whivlcers tinned with ifi'T. Mi^c^llu'i! is lpttin-,' < !ip of L-'rds " fdidn," at:d prp. fi-rs the. Kiu^'3 n».jd and itn biimy Wishing to a itombit of wo*ds wi«-ji Lord Siilisbnrv. N-r ore ail the Commons faithful to their duties. L^ok at this little fei|o\t-, with thp kffifi'fa^e and the jjrea* nio'ista-.-hp twisted tip at, the ends. H«* P'r'-jjeßts, somi'how, a fox tHiriei 1 , with the air of snap," his atai-t'iess of a'-p ■>'•(•, lii« k-c-nnes-: o? eve. At pr-sent, he is bnfc the leader in the. Lower House of a n\>-tv that consists of thrpp Asides li'mMf; b-H L n rd Randolph Churchill is bHio-ved in irnre by tlie majority of .f.Tio Conservatives than is Sir St:ilf):d Vovt!i<:otP. and, if he hvea, the d*v will coni" t'rit shill s-e the little man Pren.isr of England. Meanwhile he is chatting, prnbaMy about a ho-'se, with a dapper, bowl^ij'/"d, nlmoss pri'ternatunlly «ide awake looking man, in the tiyhtpst of trousers and the best fi'-firuj of frock coats — a man who looks (nor. do his looks belie him) to have spent fc'ie tjveater part of bis life in the middle A con-»nnm tteiioi-^man, indeed, is Sir I Genrijt* Wom'>\ve.ll, ynungf looking still, although he was one <»f t!ie Six H'Tl-lri'd who rode into the Vilh-v of Balaclava. Hard on Sir " Garge's" he»d s couvs unot'ier cavilrv man, of j quit*' anoth'-r pattern. Fivd B'lnaby is of colossal attitu'l * — he is the biggest and strongest man m the B:itis!i ai'iuy ; !*•■ is colonel of the Blues; he rod« to ICn'va and astonished an Arab sheikh wiih Cockle's pMIs; he fought with T» ik»M- Prishain B ihriri* and tlif 1 S")'i dan; .md he was tlje Hrst .min over the Ara'> entrenchment at Ei Tpb. Burnaby is grinning' the savdviic S' 1 '! which he m^a-is for a jjciiiia! greeting to another liij; h«riey man, who drives j past i;i a Victoria, with bis sfill lic»>iuti-f-ll wife by hia side. Big and bui'ley he would need to be, for he is none other t'nn " Atlas." who carries the " Woi-'d *' on his broad shonldwrs. A m trvello'is, versatile man this Ed mu'id Yites — dramatist, novelist, feuilletonist, ver-ietv riser, talk«r, lecttver, editor, and I should add staunch friend. Six mouths ago Lord Coleridge sentenced him to four months' imprisonment for a libel of which he was unconscious; he waits now the decision of a technical point, either for relief from that seutenco or for his C'Misiginent to g*ol. Few men could fi^ht, I own, the conscious-toss of a suspense so trying; but Yates has employed the interval in writing a couple of volumes of memoirs, which will bp. published in a d»y or two, and will CQtnjJete with the " Al-ilmeshnvy Memoirs" and' Ft nude's "Cirlyle" in the "B viks of the Season." Lo >k at the bluff faced mm, with th« curlybrimm^d hat wull on the biek of the head, bushy greying brown hair clustering about his cars, and the d'-fiant moustache tunu-d. up with a swagger j over the. clie-k in a fashion that i reminds one of the late Victor Emman- ; uel. What chances, wh-it prospects ■ were liis ; and ho>v lias he wiatcd i them ? The eldest son of a great j Premier, front whom he. inherited a j v!t?t fortune, liimself a man of real i ability, a slashing speaker, and a good fellow, he might. Ijrt^e b"«!i anything, and he is nothing — ■■x.vpr. Sir Robert Peel ; obliged to a friend for a s.Mt in his mail p'ubvj), t!»'> t^nuit of a bejrooai at t'lc clv'» hard by, DiMyton Minor, with all its art treasures gone to the hammer, the last racehorse sold, the town house gone, and nothing left but the insatiably appetite for gambling Do you care to nos»» no bid sample of j an AustiaiiiM colonist here ou this Brighton Esplanade! Well, this j compact, rat.h^r peremptory, yet good,- j injured looking man will serve your j turn. Ho lias j-ist won a l:x\v-viit that i makes him riclier by about £LO"),000, : but such a s'.iin more or less is of no great moment to the younger, but pro biblv tiie wealthier son of •' Big Cliti'ko " — Sir William's youn'er ; brother, known to the Victorian folk by the fitnili ir title of '• Joe Ciake." And wo'Ud you see a fair young Ausfcr.tliiu brido ? Well hero she conies ! oa iho Hiiu, on the stalwart arm, of i her young husband, the son of nn I English earl, himself a mm who-ii all Australia knows and honours by the I name of Ivo Bii^li. Look at this wiiit« b.ardcd senior, sitting ratlifir tlian riding on the superb hack, with tha groom behind him mounted on a 300 guinea cob. A curious life surely 1 Ins has been. In hi^ youth \m Hebrew father b.'OUifht him down the Tigris from BigiUd, the family fleeing for their lives bp.cans* of Arab hatred against t! ic raoe to wh toll he belonged. I ieuieiuberhi;a in Bom : »ay, solucliiiig around in white Oiii-iital dress. Now be i«Sir Albort Siss>oii, tlm owiwi- of th. c fi.mst liooso i:i B, ighten, O!io of t!i«i fi ;cs li.>u-e:; in Lon lon, tlirt head of a Family thatarca po.vtrin s«>cicty, in t!>e city, a M <| in every haunt of com-uerco in the, kiiow world. Brigljton has its wieckd. Here is one of the>u f w,ict leJ

le jm a ln*h chair. You greet him, an *• i I:J3 effort to ai'ticilate. a iep!y i lt j p'ninful, r-nd t«!!s too sun ]y n? par : rt Ivkii. Who was dieprier ann i# vl> c | cherry than flear old Fred C!?.y, son. Uwiiter, music composer, the j=r->iiia '" friend o'i weryhoi'tyl It seems l>u • the other day, yet it vims month: s asjo, that nnfc listened to and shaiv-d ii ' j the plaudits that followed the falling ' of the curtain on a comic opein o '• which he had written the music. Thi f Vf»iy #>v»nin'jf as in the flush of succ-ci he w,i* walking from th<- theatre tollu cl'ib, the i'lsidious enemy Mi^hted inn 1 I and ever «*iuee he has b?en helpless and speechless. Neither he.lple.ss noi - fl > ■fr-liipss al through non st'-an,'h' • «iileu{;, savp when mo^ed, 13 this Httlf ■ li if onzod man with the compn:t torso, ' and tht* eye that misses inthinsf. In ' Hip niidfpt of this thron<? is -Stanley, T wojv'if*". n3 lie si'inters thinking of '- those African solitudes to which hp • Ins civfn so mnoh of his life ;of tha 1 cr^at ri< - er whose fufnre to all .I'Tvs fV-pkls i.-fant'nVd with the name of th^ diiir! f h"i--? Welshman who will pr-rsis?. in nnllin./MimHpifa sonof Ame'icn ? H"e is t!ie iti'VM of f>' #f ffTi. the strenuous dnprOv«r n-n-ivft him therp lo'W.jps the f iM-.Jp, who wastes « fine int"ll<>et on tho q-vi -kerips of a sham sestheti^ism. squiiaf-rs his time in chatter ovp-th" harmo'ty of colour'?. Osrar Wild? mieht hivp won ren'it>it?O'un literature, for he has orenins hut liehaschosen thei*»noMe nart of frivolity, invents •' com'»in:i- . tioMn.'i«? a self elected arbiter on dress, ha<; hi* h*ir curled twi"*ea dav, dawdles through lifp the nn-icaturp of manhood. Ok* misjht fill column on column in onOi nincf the personnel of the thronjj tint his sratliered in the Kind's road this sunshiny afternoon, and mo^p mi'jtht he don<» inside the hi-j morning room of the Orleans Cinh, whoso snick and-spain new red brick front looks over the esplanade on to the <st'%, o' 1 in the spir»iom bow windows of «-,ho old "New C'nb," mu<?h frequented nf ha'f nay officers and gentlemen of Jewish extraction. But the l»and has c«n«!»d to p'av, th« red rumsH; is fidi'icr, the, moonbeams a"c faliim; on r.hp mini free of the ocean, and the motfff! of B'/i^h ton-super- mare is fist dispei sin^ homewards, bent on late i afternoon tea.