ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF SOCIAL NEWS.

An attractive debutante is the Hon. Evelyn Gardner, the youngest and only unmarried daughter of the first Baron Burghclere, who had four daughters, but no son, so the title became extinct. Her mother is a sister of tho Earl of Carnarvon, whose recent Egyptian excavations have revealed so much. The Hon. Evelyn Gardner, who is very pretty and charming, will be seen at the principal social events in the near future.

The arrival of a party of Swazi ohiefs in England may recall the visit of a deputation in 1894, and its introduction to Queen Victoria, which shook a little even her equanimity. "We come, 0 mother," translated the interpreter, "to bring to thee our babe. Take him, Q mother, to thy knees; fold him to thy breast." At this stage the Queen was becoming alarmed. "But where is the child?" she cried. "I don't see him." "Here, 0 mother," said the Swazi gravely, bringing forward a hefty savage six feet high and weighing about sixteen stone. "Here he is."

There are few members of the English Bar who have appeared in so many famous cases as Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C. Some of his remarkable briefs include those for the defence of Major Armstrong, Ronald True, Captain Peel, Goslett. and the Ilford murder trial. His hobby is hard work, and he never spares himself. Although his profession brings him so much into contact with the gloomy side of life, Sir Henry has not lost his sense

This is a year of interesting anniversaries for both Canterbury and York, so far as the records of its Arohbishops are concerned. To jot them down in brief: it is just 1000 years since Wulfhelm became the 21st Archbishop of Canterbury, and 800 since William de Corbeuil succeeded to the same high office. Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, died just 900 years ago, and exactly 850 years ago Canterbury was made superior to the Northern See, so that while the Archbishop of York is now Primate of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury is Primate of All England, a delicate distinction.

Like most of the old families in Scotland and England there ' is an heirloom of mystery in the family which for the second time in its history is about to be allied with Royalty House of Strathmore. The " Lyon of Glamis " which belongs to the Earls of Strathmore is an ancient and beautiful loving cup in the form of a lion rampant, richly and most curiously chased. One story has it that this beautiful heirloom was the work of an early Venetian goldsmith rescued from the Saracens by one of the ancestors 'of the Strathmore's. It is in some way connected with the famous Glamis Mystery of Glamis Castle. Somewhere in the walls of the great ancient building there is a mysterious room, and the secret it contains is known only to three people head of the house; the heir, to whom it is revealed when he comes of age; and the factor or steward of the estates. There is a tradition that the imparting of the Glamis secret to the Strathmore heir has on more than one occasion sobered a roystering Strathmone.