LORD BLEDISLOE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19806, 19 December 1929, Page 11

LORD BLEDISLOE.

A GLOUCESTERSHIRE FAREWELL (CJTJTSD PSEBB ASSOCIATION'—BT ELECTftIC TBLBOSAj H —CO PTRIGHT.) (Received December 18th, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. The Gloucestershire Society wished Lord and Lady Bledisloe God-speed it the annual dinner of the organisation. Earl Wemvss said that the whole country would miss them. They could ill be spared. Lord Bledisloe said he hoped he would carry out his mission to the satisfaction of the King and his Gloucestershire friends. A MYSTERY RECALLED. (from oub own corhespondekt.) SYDNEY, December 12. The appointment of Lord Bledisloe as Governor-General of New Zealand, and the fact that his family name is Bathurst, have recalled to a writer in one of the Sydney newspapers an interesting and mvsterious romance of the British diplomatic service. Back in the dim past when Napoleon was strutting the European stage, a young scion of the Bathurst family was recalled to London from his post at the Berlin Embassy. Halting for a change of horses at a border town, he left the inn for a brief stroll, as evening was coming on. He was never seen again. It is an historic mystery to the present day. His wife is said to have spent about half her fortune in trying to clear up the mystery. One belief was that Napoleon's secret service did away with young Bathurst, because of diplomatic treasures in his possession.