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New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 41

Mrs Theodore Roosevelt is a woman of exceptional tact- and amiability. Her .social qualities are admirable, and made her especially popular as the wife of the Governor. Mrs Roosevelt is not yet- old enough (says an American writer) foi her dark hair, which she wears drawn softly away from her high forehead, to have become tinged witii gray. Her eyes sparkle with all the vigour of youth. When she smiles it- is in the happiest manner in the world. Airs Roosevelt is fair in complexion, aquiline in profile, of medium height, slender, and with an aristocratic bearing. She has indeed great natural stateliness, and when dressed for dinner or a reception is quite the grande dame. She is a thousand times more conventionally correct than her Rough Rider husband, v.'ho has a great love for making laws unto himself.

The Duke of Norfolk has boon cordially invited, and indeed urged, to allow himself to be nominated for a further term of office as of Westminster, hut- ho has declined to do so. There is no harder worker in England than the Earl Marshal, hut he is rightly of opinion that the labours in store for him in connection with the approaching Coronation will keep him sufficiently occupied without the additional burden of municipal office. There is some likelihood of his being succeeded in she mayoralty by Earl Howe, who is a considerable proprietor in the Alayfair portion of the borough. Mr Darcy Wentworth, Australasian amateur half-mile champion runner, returned to Sydney by the Alokoia on Saturday last.