LADIES' GOSSIP.
Lady Harris has been presented with a diamond necklace of 33 brilliants and a pendant of 27 brilliants, together with an address, in recognition of her kindness and courtesy to ladies during the year she was Mayoress of Sydney. — Six ladies now rank in the professouite of Swiss Universities. Berne has four : one is the professor of history of philosophy, others are in the depaitmenls of surgery and of the Telluric Obbervatoiy, while the fourth is civic librarian. At Ziuich there are two, iboth m the department of surgery — Princess Victoria of Wales is one of the gentlest and kindest of human beings, delightfully natuial and winsome. Her health has been indifferent for some time, but is now said to be thoroughly reestablished Devoted to her father, mothei, and sisters, she has not yet married, and has been heard to say "that «he cannot understand how anyone can be willing to leave home to become a wife. — The Queen Mother of the Netheilard-, is to reside in future at a palace m The Hague, which is being fitted up for her Queen Emma has a State allowance of £312,000 <x year, besides a jointure of £10,000 a year from the late King's estates, and she is believed to have saved about £150,000 during her daughter's long mino-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 60
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219LADIES' GOSSIP. Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 60
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