GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7263, 24 January 1889, Page 6

GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

JjobcA Mac.—lay's " every schoolboy " will be rati»er amused at a casual remark made bjr Mr Frith in his entertaining " Further _i__a_cences." He is speaking of a once ___na resta—_it known as "The Sympo-a-k-m."and he says: "Whether that lmpoatsg ward means an eating-house or not I do no. possess Latin enough to say. Lord Onslow having expressed his desire to be introduced to the leading New Zealand cole_sts at present staying in I—gland prior to his departure to assume tiw _ov—_orship of that colony, a number o_ __-__—sof the Legislative Council and others waited on him on Tuesday at his private residence in Richmond terrace, and were introduced to him by Sir Francis __km _eIL Agent-General in London. Amount those present were Sir Julius VogeL late Premier of New Zealand, Sir Walt- Builer-Sir John HalL Mr Randall Johnson, Mr W. Johnston, Mr W. Montgomery, Mr G. Beetham, Mr W. B. Peretval, Mr Hutchinson, and others. _—ere was an element of romance in the man—igeof Lord Stafford and Miss Hay Mac_ taxi tie, says the World. Both were under age, Lord Stafford being with—, six mouths ox his majority, and his bride within ten months of hers. Nor was this •1L There was an historical incident in which the two families were concerned, th* Bar! of -Sutherland in 1746 having app__tended the Earl of Cromartie, the ancestor of Miss Hay Mackenzie, when he waa-——iiis men for Prince Charlie. His loyalty to the Protestant succession made him take this step; but it was also on his intervention that Lord Cromartie was saved from the fate which befel Balmerino and Kilmarnock.

Those who see them together say that nothing is more touching than the absolute unselfishness and devotion of the Queen and the Empress Frederick. The Queen's one thought from morning to night is to minister to the comfort of her daughter, and endeavor to diminish her grief, and the smallest wish of the Empress ia attended to and carried out with the most affectionate assiduity. The Empress is looking very worn and tired, and steeps badly; but the rest and quiet of Windsor, which she enjoys thoroughly, and which she and ber daughters are never weary of expatiating on, are already beginning to have a good effect on her health and spirits.— The World. A somewhat amusing imbroglio connected with forged bank-notes is making the Hungarians merry. A short time ago a gang of men, supposed to be forgers of bank-notes, was arrested at StuMweissenburg, and the tribunal of that town sent a bundle of their false notes to the court of justice at Budapest, before which the prisoners were to be tried. By some blunder the notes were forwarded to the tax office as genuine, and the tax office putt—emin_tcuiation. Asa consequence, the prisoners had to be acquitted on their trial for want of proof. They now intend, it is said, to sue the Hungarian Government for their money, arguing that the genu.—eness of the notes has been sufficiently established by their circulation through the Tax office. It ought to be

explained that in this country, where the currency is paper, nobody ever thinks ot taking the number of a bank note. Who that has ever been at pubbcschool or university does not know the "sap who likes to pose as a "swell, the hardworker who tries to pass as an idler;? There is an amusing instance given in this Temple Bar article on WhewelL He was beate« botb m. the Tripos and in the examination for the Smith's Prizes by Jacob <" Rightly art thou named Jacob, said Whewell afterwards, " for thou hast supplanted mc these two times"); and this is partly how Jacob contrived to do "Jacob, to delude Whewell into the idea that he was not reading hard, used to don pink and tops and ride past Whewell s rooms as if going out with the hounds, whereas, in fact, he dismounted at a cottage he had hired on the Trunipington road, and read furiously all day."