LORD AND LADY JERSEY.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 136, 6 December 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

LORD AND LADY JERSEY.

In " society " there is much wonderment as to the motives which could have induced the Jerseys to consent to five years' voluntary exile. They are richer than any previous Australasian Governor. They are held in high esteem by the great world, and idolised by their immediate friends and dependents. Health has nothing to do with their departure. What, then, asks the curious, oan have prompted such a sacrifice ? I am assured that Lord Jersey is an exceptionally conscientious and highprincipled man, and that a genuine desire to be useful in his day and generation has largely influenced a decision which all his friends and relations regret, and few can understand. Unquestionably, he is making considerable pecuniary sacrifices, for there is little prospect of his being able to let the four lovely seats he has in different parts of the kingdom. He is a different type of man to Lord Carrington, and is scarcely likely to be so popular — at any rate, not until his sterling qualities have had time to be fully appreciated. He is not ono to court popularity, or to be hail fellow, well met, with everyone, but he is genuinely kind, extremely hospitable, filled with an earnest desire to do the colony service, and to make hia term of office beneficial alike to the Crown and those over whom he rules. Lady Jersey is described by all who know her as a very charming lady. Though a fluent public speaker, she is very modest and retiring in the exercise of her unusual accomplishment. The children of the family are credited with inheriting the good qualities of their amiable parents. The eldest lad remains at homo to complete his studies ; but the eldest daughter, a girl of 14, her sister, and two younger brothers, proceed to Sydney. The Earl is a practical agriculturist, and this may gain him the respect of a large section of the cqminunity he governs..

Lady Henry Somerset, the now President of the Women's Temperance League, has issued invitations for a monster Temperance demonstration to be held at her famous caitle in the Malvern Hills.