WHAT IS SIR GEORGE BOWEN UP TO ?

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 37, 29 May 1878, Page 2

WHAT IS SIR GEORGE BOWEN UP TO ?

An ocpuqionnl correspondent °f v - Otnfio Daily Times writes from Mel* bourno :— VVlmt is all lliis Don Giovanni- ism and Gay Lothario-ism charged to Sir George Bowcn P Is it not possible for any public mnn in Australia to bo chasto ns snow and puro ns ico, and so escape calumny , Two yours ago a woman in Collinsxstreet Melbourne, deliberately pulled Lad? Bowmi'a hair down. She was mad. Another lady was sent homo, and a nubsoriptiou for her husband, by two gallant Iminlits and a morciiunt, realized £3000. it is said, A.s.tound.mfit liberality I Now pooplo lmvo been going about saying that. Sir George Bowon got both bis eyes blanked by a gnrdnor. This is tlio pro* Clous Statement which was forwarded by various dastards to Lady Bowen. Hor Ladyship complained to tho Ministry, ond tho lion the IWmastor-Genoral, Mr CuUiborf, reforred to tho matter in tho Legislative Couuoi!, apparently charging, this uuilii;nm\uy o.f tho Conservatives, of; which Sir Charles Sltulon is tho loader,: Sir Cileries Sladpn not up and Gorcply' repudiated it. Thero is not the shadow of a donbt Ui »t Lady How on determine-! to proceed to E. igland, r\n J she went on board tho Uoyal mail stoamer to select, a berth. Sl\o was persuaded to reninin and avoid scandal, nini it whs "iveu out that she' only went i down to lunch with iho captain I— such a tiling has never '(jceurrvd , I'ofore in tho whohj liwiory of the CoKiny — the Goveri\or'fl ■ }ndy. j»uinij:teri. miles. (l'roin Governmftiit Uoqso .lo ■Willinmslown), without hi>r husband to luuoh with a fillip vaptain ! Bosh} ■■"' •'•■••• •■••■•■■- I Tho newspaper? _ koop sninkoring at S\r tGeorgo. l^pwcn in a mo.se oQonsivo ma,ni\cr regardinj; his noeinl, delinquencies. Of .course you have obsorved'tlleso nllusions,, and said to yonrst-lves. v Will somebody :for heavon's sake tell u<i what ie is all inbout.' 1 Well hero it is. | Be suro that all this i.s roported notouly to Sir M. Hiek-s-Bcnfth, but to ,hor. Majesty tho Queen, through tho channels nt the command of tho richer classes, and it is tho very oream of Victorinn society which is tho bitterest against Sir Goorgo I3owon< Ho had a notion of putting in for the Governorship of Bombay n couple of years bro, and is douood sorry ha did not. If ho goes, thoro aro two clißiblo candidates for tho billot, spoakinft merely of claim from actual position, Sir Hercules Robinso.i, and tho Marquis of Normanby, Sir. Horculos has a strong notion of rotir* inp; from business altoßotl or as a Governor nnd Rotllinj? in Now South Walo', Any idea of playing tho rolo ofGroyP But tho offer of tho Gorornorshjp of Victoria } w^mJd bo very tompting to Sir Hercules. , Ho is of a combalivo turn, nud nothing 1 would dolight him moro than to upset • Bowen's npplo cart. Sir Jlovculos has ] boon ono of Sir Georp;o Bowou's severest oritics, and hato.i Horry out and out. The Victorian Conservatives hnvo lately beon kotooing a good deal to him. Ho is hand J and gloyo with Sir W. Ft. P Mitoliell. j