MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7412, 30 September 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

MfU.IONAmKS.S'S WHIM. Vis Cornelius V.-ir.ilcrliiH, Kistcr of me'wile of .Sir Michael Herbert, the British Ambassador here, lias utili'wi [diplomatic skill with Uaton yon 1.-;-, lien', Attache at the Herman I-'ii'p'liitssy U> tccuie I lie closing of ii,. Knickerbocker Theatre for one [ ,' . 1,1 in order to havft the first act ; , i ' flic Wild Itosi-" jivt^cntf.d at an c.uitainmcnt on August 25, at her Newport villa. Mrs Vanderbilt lias i, uci £700 for the concession. This ■ will be. the first time that any New York theatre has closed under similar circumstances. AKTKR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. The chemist M. Dauval, who was condemned to death in 1877 for poisoning his wife, and whose sentence was afterwards reduced to punishment with hard labour for life, arrived at Marseilles on August 11. After serving twenty-live years in the French penal settlement in New Caledonia lie was recognised to h. innocent of the crime for which he ■ had been condemned, and his pardon \- was signed by the President of the I Republic. On account of bis good | conduct during his imprisonment M. I Dauval was allowed lo marry, ai,d m his wife and three children r..-tur,icd W to France with him. Wuririg the £ vovarc home on the liner Australien ; tin': passengers gol up a subscription in favour of the victim of a cruel miu.siiee. and t lie chemists of Paris | have decided to install him In a I iiliarmacy in the centre of the capiI i.il. When W. Dauval left the steafi !■ rr at IMarueilles he was hailed by a i large crowd with cries of "Long live f i he innocent convict !" and at his hotel numerous delegations presenter him with bouquets. A ROMANCE OF SOCIETY. ' The Hon. Lyulph Gilchrist .Stan!e> Ogilvy, uncle of the young Karl oi Airlie, announces that he is to marry Miss ISdith Boothroyd, the daugbi tor of a wealthy Colorado farmer. L The Hon. L. O. Ogilvy has had a s romantic career, as at difleicrit time. rei;,j he has been a farmer, a ranch owner ;§&, and an American soldier during the-J»St-American-Spanish war. When the iraifc-'wax broke out in South Africa he 'fii-qi answered the Empttc's calf, ar.d did THrfSi- good work as a member of BraHorse. Wk&i V S SEPARATION SEQUELMi"> Way Hanna, who some time I^B'-ago secured a separation from her tSUr husband, the son of Kenntor Hanna, Sml the gieat- political "Iloss," is said US" to be engaged to be married to an ($& English peer, who fell in love with ash lnsr just after she kidnapped her own I §&■ children about a year ago and then SK fled with them to London. Mrs IE Ilannp, who is at Cleveland, Ohio, | I lefuses either to deny or confirm the H| story Her friends say she returns | | to London shortly.