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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 56

The Duke of St. Albans, who has just passed his thirty-fourth _ birthday, has been leading a comparatively quiet Hie since his father’s death, six years ago, brought him prematurely into the dukedom, says an English P^P 6 • ' fore that, as the EarF o - had knocked about the world a ood deal, and was the hero of some notable adventures. While m New Zealand he established a record in a horse ride across the rugged and volcanic intenor of the North Island, from Hawke’s Bay to the Waitemata. Many changes of horses had to be made, of course, for this wild gallop along the mountain ranges and through the weird gorges, past boiling springs and hot lakes, and over strange and dangerous rivers,