A “Gaiety Girl” Marchioness.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 151, 8 July 1901, Page 3

A “Gaiety Girl” Marchioness.

London, May 11. Rosie Boote, now tho Marchioness of Headfort, not only insisted on tho Marquis supplementing tho civil marrage ceremony by a ceremony in the Catholic Church, but she also is said to bo about to convert him to her faith.

lii any caso there was a formal prouiptial agreement that all offsprings of ;he marriage be brought up as Catholics. Hie Marquis has about .£5,000 a year low, but when the jointures of tho two iving Marchionesses and his othor reatives fall in ho will be much better off. Meanwhilo the oouplc aro going to settle in the family mansion near Ivells bounty, Moatli.

Mr R. McKenzie wishes in his Miners’ Rights Bill to reduce the fee for such rights from 10s to ss. The Government is boing urged by Mr Massey to sot apart a day for the discussion of the report of the Federation Commission.

Jessie Mackenzie, of Auckland, and 41 others, arc petitioning the House, through Mr George Fowlds, to make proper provision for weak-minded, imbecile, and idiotic children.

“ We have no more right to condemn a gentleman for taking a title than we have for condemning anyone for being a vegetarian, and I for one heartily congratulate Sir Joseph Ward upon the distinction he has gained," is the opinion of Mr Laurenson on the recent distribution of honors.

The following is from the Auckland Herald :—The Opposition have thrown up the sponge and have no intention of “ coming up to time smiling.” Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! To this complexion have wo come at last, not even “ a party of one.” “It must be distinctly understood,” says the gallant captain, with all the blood of the Russells behind him, 11 that there is no difference in this country between Conservatives and Liberals where there was anything to be got !” (Cheers.) I thought he was made of sterner stuff.

Dr. Seyfried, the famous Berlin surgeon, has just received the congratulations of his professional brethren on a successful operation believed to be unique. He removed a portion of a workman's skull, pulverised by the blow of an iron bolt, and filled the cavity with bone from the skull of an ox, carefully pared down and carved to fit the hole. The skin was laid over the injury and healed naturally. The patient experienced no ill effects. Two more petitions, asking for a plebiscite on the Bible in schools question, have i been presented. | Vatican circles in Rome have been much moved by what is considered the almost | miraculous recovery of Monsignor Cane- | strari from what was believed by his phy; sicians to be a mortal stroke of paralysis, which brought him to the point of death. Immediately upon his receiving the Papal blessing, following the celebration of a special mass for him by the Pope in his 1 private chapel, the physicians noticed a ; decided improvement, which has been ! maintained. The patient not only J- s uow 1 out of danger. h’)[ [j recovering power in

ms limbs. The late Rev. J. Chalmers was a born colonist (.says a London writer), and passionately loved the rough life in New Guinea, though ho said he would never subordinate missionary work to exploration. “ I generally travel alone,” though sometimes I take a native servant, but I am accustomed to carry my own belongings on my own back, and steer my own course —not- by sextant and chronometer, but by compass and cross-bearings. Navigation was one of my hobbies, but a sextant and chronometer aro heavy items in a load which has to be carried on your back, blankets, water (perhaps), tinned meats, and money—hoop-iron, beads, cloth, and so on, the'currency—soon making up a heavy load,”