A REMARKABLE CAREER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

A remaekablx career (according to Vauity Fair) ia that of Governor Napier" Broome, of Western Australia. As a youth he emigrated to New Zealand, and in the intervals of sheep-tending studied hard. Going horde for a holiday, ho renewed acquaintance, with Lady Barker, the young widow of an Indian general, fell in love, and pressed his suit, which after a long while was successful, and hiß wife went out to his sheep station in New Zealand, of which she has written so charmingly. A disastrous pastoral period came, and Mr. Broome suffered so severely that he roaolved to return to England. About that tioio a distinguished duchess was mourning her first-born son, a child of some eight years. Chance brought her into communication with Lady Barker, who is credited with possessing the powers of "a medium," and by her meanß the Duoheas communicated, or imagined sho did, with her loßt child.- & great intimacy ensued between the ladies ; the Duchess, learning that Mr. Broome had literary aspirations, introduced him to ,the lato Mr. Delane, and Mr. Broome sooii became a writer on the Times, and wrote, among other articles, that which at the time excited bo much attention anent Mrs. Stowo's oharges ogainst. Lord Byron and his sister. Xho satno intercut subsequently got him-the aocretaryship of tho, Mauritius, whcnco ho was promoted co Westorn Australia. , .