Social Gossip.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6743, 27 April 1893, Page 2

Social Gossip.

* an Loneon, March 9. I went to-day to the wedding of Miss Olga X; Mackenzie, daughter of the late Sir Morell <"• Mackenzie. The bridegroom is son of Bir » James Hannen, ex.Judge of the Divoroe :, p > Court- a usefulsort of father- in-law to have 10 in case of emergencies. However, nothing 1 p a0l } l & be more auspicious than this marriage. ot It is creditable to society in general that tha Mackenzies do not seem to be " forgotten" Bn in the least. I have seldom seen a finer tr show of carriages outside and presents insii__ ,ia Tho wedding was from the house of Sir at Morell's brother, Dr Stephen Mackenzie he who never quarrelled with the " Orthodox"' 3n profession. The bride is a remarkably handed some gitl about 6ft high. Another sister a ie, bridesmaid, is 6ft 2iu or Cft Sin. So tall le was she that she walked by herself in the iat procession, no other bridesmaid being found y. to match. a Everybody is talking of Rennell Rodd'a -h tnergyand success in stifling the attempted ._. coup d'etat at Zanzibar while acting as to Briiish Consul in Sir Gerald Portal's absence. 1- Hitherto Rennell Rodd has been taken on io trust, known to his friends as a tall, thin, x . cultured, and possibly effete type of Baliol ( C 8 ma. on his promotion. Although"TSe~ s T id actually won the "Newdigate," necessitatle ing the wi iting of a long poem in cold blood, Br hs showed himself as resolute and masterful |y at a critical moment aa any of tho old school a of empire-builders. All that is encouragA ing at all events. gs The Empress Frederick, who commisj. sioned Rennell Rodd 'to write a memoir of t d her late husband, has just brought about a meeting between the Queen and one of the former's old protegees, Marie Corelli, an out- ■" landlish little womau who has written ie intensa poetry and emotional prose, in the tj ftyle of Olive Schreiner's dreams. Lately m Mrs Corelli has taken to producing novels of n London life, extremely personal, the "characters" being taken from the set of people who are paragraphed in the Ladies* g Pictorial and other society journals for ,g women, and knocked about a good deal, j Marie Corelli is admirably " made up" by nature for intensity and emotionalism. She _' has pinched, interesting features, apple-red cheeks, an abundauco of fuzzy yellow hair and eyes which express every ihing. She is in English by birth, and goes about with a a* brother who speaks English chiefly. :h A veteran offioial of police, Captain '- Douglas Labalmondiere, died yesterday at t- a great age. Ho was one of the first aesist--7 ant commissioners of metropolitan polioe Sir Richard Mayne. The Labalmondiere family belong to the West Indian island of St. Lucia, and were at ono timo lurgcslaveholdersthere. St. Lucia, although Q a British possession, is French in population, manners, customs, language, and laws. The laws, indeed, aro derived, like those of Lower Canada, from the old «<_ - tiimes re Paris reci gnised by the mediaeval French their basis being Roman law Douglas Labalmondiere began life in. an infantry regiment. He was selected, with other officers (Sir Hercules Robinson among them) to act as poor law commissioners in Ireland. During the famine of 1847 Labaltnoudiero was commissioner in r Wales, and there contracted tbe "famine c f .ver," a description of typhus. It very . nearly killed him, ..nd as compensation he--0 was made police commissioner in London. . He was ono of the handsomest men in the . service in his day. 1 Mary Anno, Lady Forrester, dowager of . the Srd Lord Forrester, has just died. Her . first marriage was for years the talk of i London. It was the first caso of the alleged t sale ef one of the daughters of .England's t proud aristocracy to a husband who had t -othiDg but money to recommend him. The j marriage caused binctre pain at tho time to , thousands of total strangers, convinced supportersof ouraacientinstitutions The Times indeed, wrote more than one grave and sorrowful article about the marriage. For the brida was the exceedingly beautifr Miss Jams, daughter of the 2nd Lord' ■" Vincent, while the bridegroom was a > dt " casto gentleman of imtnease wealth J ?, lf : Dye a Sombre, tho issue of a mamr call ed tweeua -coitieh adventurer name ." S J? be " Ochterbury Dyce and the Begu. J % r)avi(i Dyce had gone out to India in. ' ." Bon *bre. "the Company" to seek hb »"- c dava of native court. He is 8:lid *-p , ' un - 8t » of George Middle mass in if ■ " t f e original Surgeon's Daughter. Dye \l W _ U . er Scolt 's appearance in London w* ( ? . omb -cmaa__is and the brown face of w ''-"mmense wealth - purchased Miss Jarvv u " en *ah He there white and red. _ ' wh ° se J >olor Forrester, an ideaE. ,tCo_„ 7 oeeil f *** the Royal Horse, G ca P tam » the scene. Ono ""1 U9 ' ttP - oarod on Sombre died J?° a *' ° r s ° a --** Dyce Forrester • r * , __. became Mrs one '\- J^ the aeoond Lord Forrester,, one of cha oldest inhabitantg f ____?>■ Cecf W .'/i? d ia tUrn > lea ™S "o s°°; and. SChW ! oHester succeeded him. DyceSombre, had carried on an interminable Wun with the East India Company! Lord Forrester, as repressing- his wife was wont for y.ars to raise in the Honse of Lords questions about this lawsuit Some surprise has been occasioned by the details of M.ntagu Williams's will, wherein E_*r r _ fl lef _ to J f dy _ LaWBOD ' *> • SMS Edward, and only £10,000 to .Montac/u Williams's daughter, Mrs JKoharfccTalJ « r .£* -i o .*™***. » already y ery we'l off The friendship between Montl„u WUhams and the Lawson family w tts of the closest kind, their other great Wl nend being Sir Henry Hawkifs Th! o two pillars of the law we-o for years the tame cats of tho Lawson h. uphold, so ,_£__ so that there waa a little giumbli.g heard among Tories when Sir Henry was appointed to try the Cir.acester election petition m which H. W. L. Law.en S so deeply interested. These friendships and bequests carry one back to 1880. when Henry Labouchere and Edward Lev v La «T son rushed to open warfare, and indeed blows, about Labouch.re's persistent and ferocious attacks upon the late Lionel Law- - son. It was then that Montagu Williams iecame adviser and backer of the Lawaonr Much of Lionel Lawaon's wealth waa mad* not out of the Daily Telegraph, but -_.. o£ the manufacture of prhter's ink at hil works m France. LadyLaw_mi s dau-_t_. of the late Benjamin Webster, the wtor himself a Jew.—Argus correspondent