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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

Lord Blantyre had the whole of his large property at his own disposal and he has bequeathed his estates in the counties of Berwick, Dumbarton, Haddington, Renfrew, and Lanark to his grandson, Mr William Baird, younger son of Sir David and the Hon. Lady Baird, of Newbyth. His daughter, Mrs William Henry Gladstone, is left £20,000 and a leasehold house in Berkeley square. Erskine House, the family seat on the Clyde, near Renfrew, is ; a modern Tudor mansion, with fine gardens and grounds. . The Archibshop of (B.C.) is no enemy; of the stage, if it;is not degraded by impropriety, but degraded it is at times, and his Grace in. a recent speech, expressed'> regret that some of the worjji offences of the kind; have been openly and ostentatiously encouraged by the patronage -of- “those .who;axe; under amove than common obligation- _to keep up the tone of public social life in Dublin.” The “Freeman’s ; JournaT’; complains that newspaper influence in the matter is very ineffective, because on a Thursday it- described a play' as ' being notable for “indelicacy’of costume and! dialogue, suggestiveness, drunkenness, dissipation, immorality and conjugal infidelity,’’ and on Friday evening the! Countess Oadogan _and a party,’ ind.nd-1 ing’Mr Wyndhamy tho Chief Secretary, were present to witness the perform-! anoe of the same piece. I