LATE MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 610, 21 May 1891, Page 3

LATE MAIL NEWS.

The Queen’s railway journey of 30 hours from Cherbourg to Grasse was to cost £440. The rent for the hotel at Grasse is said to be £B4O a week.

The Princess of Wale; and her daughters are setting an example in simplicity of dress. At Sandringham they wore costumes ot plain blue serge hung plainly from the waist, and cut a sensible length for walking, the outer garment being a jacket of navy serge or fawncolored cloth. When the Duke of Westminster was snowed up the other day, be bad occasion to put his bead out of the window and rebuke some blue jackets who were in the train for their lavish abuse of the railway company. Not recognising the Admiral, they commenced such an uncomplimentary attack upon him that the Duke speedily withdrew his head. The Emperor of Austria, according to annual custom, recently washed the feet of 12 old men at his palace in Vienna. The ceremony is conducted with every manifestation of Imperial magnificence. In the absence of the Empress ths ceremony of washing tbs feet of Imaged women oould not take place, S argeon Parke, who served in Mr Stanley’s expedition, has been appointed a ViceConsul in the Oil Rivers Protectorate. Mr Astor, the American millionaire, has taken a house in West London at a rental of £5OOO a year, It has transpired that when his son was married recently in America the bridegroom omitted to say, “With all my worldly goods I thee endow.” The omission has been much commented ou by the friends of the bride. A lady in London has formed a loan stud for cabmen. Her plan is to hire horses to cabmen and others whose animals have either died or are in need of rest. The Duke of St. Albans, like his ancestors, received £965 a year for being known as Hereditary Grand Falconer, which has been a sinecure ever since hawking ceased to be the pastime of monarch. Tho Duke has just commuted this handsome pension, receiving from the Government its money value in full. The World's Fair at Chicago was to have been opened by a descendant of Columbus. Tennyson, being asked for a song to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, replied, " I am an old man verging on 82, and cannot promise.” A Ban Francisco paper says that the most amusing things that country ever fell her to, are Joe Thompson and the greasy map of ths peninsula, which he carries in bis pocket.