The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-28
Special Correspondence from The
British Capital.
SOCIETY kCOC OVER THE WAR
Rumors from the Continental
Courts - Emperor Frederick
and Princess Stephanis

SOAu4t4S, Dti- lIo<>F1 WHO are 4eI~ D6IIQl
and The refugees who are pouring int
the British town a. the Cape. There,
hear, the women are delighted to have
a chance to dress and be gay; the cafes
are filled with WelI-dressed women anC
music and good cheer make >he place
look and sound gay, and wi5hou- any
fear of the results Of tine war.
| In London a monster carnival at Nj
agara, which, you know, is the semi
private skating palace, is thought of
/ the proceeds to be given TO the needs
! Of the soldiers. Mrs. Arthur Paget
/ who was Miss Minnie Stevens, of New
York, and whose husband, Co-onal Pa.
get, has gone 70 the Cape, has under
uahen 10 supply IHn1, Dandages and
comforts tor the wounded. Ile4e Is
20 he i payrloTlc concert and a bali
under royal and distinguished patron
age, VIII De neud on rnse "yh or Nov
emOer, on DahHt ot the Transyaal re-
tuSeeS, llO5e WAC cannot wear purp4e
and diamonds and dime and make mer-
~ at fashionable cafes.
Mr.. Alfred Rothschlld has undertaken
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officers Of the SCOu5 Guards; whether
or not this means ali they want l nave
not heard. But fancy the Duke of Wei
ington on the eve of Waterloo hearing
, chat his officers, were to be supplied
with suJh peaceful injuries!
SIR William MacCOrmac, the great
surgeon, has shown his patriotism by
volunteering to go TO the IransVaal
and undertake to see that the wounded
are treated with the highest available
surgical skill. The lady volunteer
nurses are not having a very enthusi-
astic reception from The War Office,
and the rlg.d eXamina lions inst.tused
some time ago are not in any case re-
Taxed. Of course, there are some eX-
ceptions. Lady Hely-Hu.chins0n the
wife Of the Governor OF Natal is tax
ing prominent part In organizing the
South African nursing arrangement
She is going out on the hospital ship
Trojan. The Hospital Army Corps are
taking only such nurses as have al
ready had active service experience.
The Beers, 700, have very efficient
corps of nurses. And The Roman Cath
Ollie sisters who have elected to stay at
Kimberley are turning tletr convent
into a military hospital. The only one
of the Queens daughters who had real
experience in military nursing was
Princess Alice, who organized the
whole nursing aTTan gemenJs at Darn
stadt during the FTanco-Pru.sian war
The Queen of Greece and the Duchess
of Sparta took an active personal part
in nursing during the GracO-Turkish
war, looking AFTER the soldiers who
poured into Athens. The Duchess tried
to start a corps of nurses, composed of
women of the higher class, but it was
frowned down by the republican Greeks
as being mira dig.
The BOer GOvernn emit mas prom tsed
to the man who will capture Cecil
Rhodes a new farm complete in every
thing for working. The second man in
the Beers hatred is Major W0ols-Samp-
son, who been severely wounded, which
is no doubt filing the Beers with de-
light. This officer has been a thorn
in the Boer burghers' side for many
years, especially lately as he has been
very successful in counteracting the
influence of kruger's agents sent to
undermine the loyalty of the colOnsts
in Natal. In the last Boer WAR Major
Sampson managed to nut two bullets
into a prominent burgher, who, al
though long past the age of service,
has volunteered, probably with the
hope of getting even with his enemy.
At one time Major Sampson, who is
an obstinate reformer, preferred spend
ing IS months in the Pretoria Jail
rather than ask President Kruger's
pardon. Now. unfortunately, he is laid
low. not mortany wounded, we hope.
The Empress Frederick has had to
give up both her visits to England and
Berlin because of her health. She Is
suffering with neuralgia rheumatism,
which makes an immediate move to a
warmer climate necessary. The En-
press would have been called an old
woman if she had been born in her
mothers day, as she will be SO on the
goth of November; but in spite Of a
married granddaughter she is not call
ed nor considered old. The Prince of
Wales will be So on the 9th. Another
anxiety is over little Prince Carol Of
Roumanta, the eldest grandchild Of the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg; the dear little
man, who is a quite beautiful child,
was six on the 18th Of the month, and
is now very i'll from typhoid fever. He
was born on the same day as his un-
fortunate uncle. Prince Albert Of Sake
Coburg. whose untimely death last year
was so deplOred.
Prince Carols mother, the Crown
Princess of Roumania, is only "a quite
lovely and devoted to her two children;
the senior is a girl, named Elizabeth
for Carmen Sylvia, the poet queen.
The Court has received confidential
intimation that the Queen of Holland
is practically engaged to Prince Will
liam of WED. but that there will be no
public nor official announcement for
some time. as the Queen does not in
tend to marry before her tWenty-first
birthday. which will be in August,
1901. The young man, probably, being
young-he was born IN 1876-wiu kick
his heels with Impotence. but will pro-
badly not jilt the imperious young wo-
man. Prince Williams father is the
head of a very old. powerful and veal
thy family. To this family the Queen
of Roumania belongs, and he owns
large estates in the Rhine provinces
and in Westphalia. His wife is also
very rich, and was a daughter Of the
late Prince Frederick, of the Neither