A LOST BARONET.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6451, 24 February 1908, Page 6

A LOST BARONET.

TRACED TO NEW ZEALAND, THE OAVHBROWNE-CAVE FAMILY A member of tho “Taranaki Herald” staff hu« a vivid recollection of a bril liantly-drcssc-d ancient lady, who appeared in a rntlior squalid blackmail cano be!ore tho Supreme Court at Wellington last year. She desired to bo called Mire Cave, but whispered that lior real name was that of tho titled Oavo-Browne-Cavo family. Tho recollection was called up with a nr ah when tho writer road a report from on English paper of tho disappearance of Sir Genillo Cave-Browne-Cavo, hoir to a baronetcy, who had boon traced to Nelson, New Zealand. London u-e'-vapam-r;, have lately been making a good real of copy out of the search for this missing baronet. Some time ago tho Into Sir M. Oave-Browno-Cluvo died, and tho successor to the title and the estates was his son. Genille. But tho son could not be found. He was reported to have been ranching in Dakota, to have been hunting big game in various parts of tho world, to have been in the Navy, to have been a riding-master in tho Dragoons, and to have won the D. 8.0. at Tientsin during tho Boxer troubles. Ho nerved, too, in tho Nile expedition of 1886. Yet he is said to be still only B 8 years of ago. Tho search was conducted chiefly in America, private do tootivs being employed and advertisements being inserted in many newspapers. Yet no Sir Oenilln Cnve-Browne-Gave appeared to claim his (dtlo.

intimately tho authorities scorn to have decided that the newspapers might to ho allowed to make copy of the mystery, and it was not long before does wore forthcoming. Mrs Daubony, a daughter erf Mr C. Y. Fell, remembered that nine years ago a Mr Cave-Brownc-Ca vo was living on the Awaroa River. near Nelson, New Zealand- “The family lived in a rough kind: of bosh house on the banka of the rmsr,” she told a reporter, "and we wore struck by the aristocratic appearance of tlio man, who used to walk about in a velveteen jacket with his little red-haired daughter, who would then bo about fourteen yearn of ago. Tire family.was a large one, and X bolievo Mrs Cavo-Browne-Cave was then living, although Mr Crsvo-Browne-Cavo led a lonely exist enoo with his family. We supposed ho had some money of his own, and it was my father’s regret to boo, ns ho believed, a branch of a fine old Eng Ksh family living in exile and the children’s education being neglected. The oldest daughter was .spoken of as being very clover. My father used to do business with him about once a year. ( and had often spoken to him about the childDn’s lack of education pointing ont that there were ample facilities at Nelson. Bat Mr Oavo-Browno-Cnvo was of a somewhat eccentric disposition.” This observation of Mrs Danbcny’s provoker! a search of New Zealand directories, and a Mrs Cave-Browno-Cave was found to have been livin" at Motupipo, some fifty or sixty miles from Nelson. Some, years ago (the papers say) she seems to have migrated to Wellington, and was then lost u sight.

Thn baronet belraiffs to a branch of ft well-known family oF Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The' titlto dates from 1641, and tho ancestor of the Yorkshire Caves came over with the Cononaror —"Titnvnaki Herald.”