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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4289, 23 February 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

Mr Edison lives in a house which is all agog with wires. As one approaches the Pont gate it swings o]sen and shuts automatically. The visitors foot on the steps of the porch rings a bell in the kitchen and also one in the master's study. By touching a. button ho opens the front door before the visitor has time to knock. An electrical music-box plays during dinner. When the guest retires to his bedroom the folding bod unfolds by electricity. When ho puts-out the ,gas a strange; mocking display of skeletons, grave-stones, owls, and other hidaous phantasmagoria dances about on the wall at his feet, reappearing and disappearing in a ghostly electrical glare.

The Marquis of Tullibardiue, who became 29 years of ,age on the 15th inst., is the eldest son of the seventh Duke of Atholl. He was formerly a lieutenant in tiio Black Watch Militia, but he is now in the Royal Horse Guards, and has served during the war in South Africa with the Royal Dragoons. The Marquis served with distinction in the Soudan Campaign of 1898, and at the batt'e of Omdurman he narrowly escaped winning the Victoria Cross. When the Dervishes • were retreating Colonel Broadwood started with his Egyptian cavalry to cut them off. Lord Kitchener at once sent the Marquis of Tullibardine to the Colonel witli instructions, and though he safely and expeditiously executed the commir ion, the Marquis had some near shaves from several of the enemy who jumped up as he dashed past. On his return journey he came across two wounded troopers who had fallen from their horses, and, in the face of a hot fire, lie was picking them up, when they were both killed. The Marquis himself only just escaped, and for his conduct he received the D.S.O. The authoritative statement that the young Duke of Westminster is to marry Miss Shelagh Cornwallis-West, daughter of Colonel and Mrs Cornwallis-West, of Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire, will put an end to all the silly stories wnich have been so busily circulated about the young couple. It makes it rather difficult, however, to understand the emphasis with which the first report of their engagement was denied in June last. Miss West is the beautiful daughter of a beautiful mother, and her equally beautiful sister married the Prince of Pless. Her father. Colonel CornwallisWest, was former!'/ a member of Parliament, but has been a Unionist since 1802. Ho is an enthusiastic amateur of art and the owner of Milford-on-Sea, a rising little pleasure resort in Hampshire, which iie has done much to develop. The homo of the Oornwallis- ! Wests is at Ruthin Castle. In the year j 1818 three sisters Myddleton, of Chirk, drew lots for the possessions of their ifather. The eldest secured Chirk Castle, ■ and married a Biddulph. The next, who j received Ruthin Castle, espoused a son ' of the second' Lord De La Warr, and was : the grandmother of Colonel ComwallisiWest.