" Colonel" Lucy Booth and Her Lover.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6405, 28 June 1892, Page 4

" Colonel " Lucy Booth and Her Lover.

The engagement between Colonel Lampard, of the Salvation Army, and Miss Lucy Booth, a daughter of General Booth (as briefly stated by a London correspondent), has been broken off. The private secretary to the chief of the staff (saya a Home paper of April 28th) states that only last week Colonel Lampard wrote to General Booth expressing his joy and satisfaction at the prospective union, and how much he desired it to take place. On Saturday, however, the following letter was addressed by him to the General : — London, April 23rd, 1892.— My dear General, — It ia with feelings of deep regret and shame that 1 have to announce to you that I have this day broken off the engagement which has existed between myself and your daughter Lucy. You are aware that the tirst advances in the matter of this engagement were made by me when Colonel Lucy was in Bombay some eighteen months ago. For this commencement of our intimate relation 1, and only I, am responsible. My reasons for this ending of the engagement are of a purely personal and private nature, and are such as reflect discredit on no other but myself. All that I have seen or know of Colonel Lucy has made me to fully appreciate the deep affection and high admiration that you and all your family have for her. That my own action should cause, as I fear it must do, a large and continued measure of pain to her and to all those that love her, and should cause, too, serious loss and damage to the Army, ill be a source of profound remorse and sorrow to me to my dying day. All the closer association with yuurself and the various members of your family, and the centre of things in the Army which my acquaintance with Lucy has brought about has immeasurably increased the admiration aud confidence i have ever felt, and has caused me to feel my own utter unworthiness of the place aud position I have enjoyed in the Army's rank. That God may bless you and all those dear to you on whom I have brought sorrow, and mercifully overrule the sad consequences of my action, will be my continual prayer. — I am, General, yours faithfully (signed), John Lampard. Miss Lucy Booth is utterly prostrated by the shock to the system caused by this event.

Having succeeded in a very few years in dissipating a fortune of £'250,000, and becoming bankrupt, Mr Ernest H. Benzon the "Jubilee Plunger," was again before the Court of Bankruptcy on May 11, attributing his present appearance to losses by betting on the turf. He has tiled accounts showing liabilities £326 10s, with assets uil, and states that he is in receipt of a voluntary allowance for his maintenance of £7 a week from the trustees of his fathefs will. It appears that money has been lent to him by friends upon the understanding that it would be repaid in the event of his winning money on the turf. He informed all the creditors froia whom he borrowed money that he was an undischarged bankrupt, and as none of them raised any opposition he passed his examination. The Pahiatua Star states that Mr J. M. Richnrdson, of the Dudley Anns, is an old shipmate of David, Earl of Glasgow, our present Governor. Nearly 20 years ago Lord Glasgow was captain of H.M.S. Niobe, stationed on the coast of Newfoundland. Here, in one of the dreadful fogs that prevail in that region, the Niobe became a total wreck, and the whole of the crew, numbering 274 men, were landed with only the loss of one man. The difficulty of landing such a large number of men on a rockbound coast in two boats and with a ship going rapidly to pieces under their feet, was enormous, and when Captain Boyle and his officers arid crew appeared before tho Court Martial, charged with losing one of Her Majesty's ships, the Court complimented the captain and officers on their gallant conduct. It •was while waiting for a ship to take away his shipwrecked crew at a little fishing village that the captain received the news of the birth of his first-born son, and the auspicious event was toasted in bumpers of champagne ; for it was known then that in the ordinary course of nature Captain Boyle would be Earl of Glasgow before many years, as the olc^ earl was then nearly 80, and had no children. The population of Invercargill is supposed to be about 5000, and the number of licensed houses is 26, which gives one hotel to every 11)2 of the population, and if, as is supposed, the average family is about six. it gives about one hotel for every 33 families. This number is considered excessive. A peculiarity of the clove tree is that every part of it is aromatic, though the greatest strength is in the biul. Besides the buds, the stems are gathered, and form an article of commerce, commanding one-fifth tho price of cloves, and having about the same percentage of strength. A cargo of 2332 sacks of potatoes has been sent to Newcastle, N.S.W., by the Vacuna from Picton.

The dredge Jupiter, which waß recently built in England for the Government of Now South Wales, left for Sydney on June 4th. The Jupiter ia the very largest type of suction dredge, and has actually been tested to raise 1000 tons of silt per hour. She was built by Messrs Sims and Co. , Renfrew, and is so constructed that she draws the silt through suction pipes by means of a centrifugal pump. She is the fourth vessel of this type that has been built. One is employed on the Mersey, one at Natal, one at Nicaragua, and this one, which will be principally employed at Newcastle. The New Zcalai.d tour which was contemplated by Miss Billie Barlow with her Burlesque Company has been abandoned, as she has concluded English engagements from which she cannot .obtain a release. Miss Barlow will accordingly sail for England on 4th July. Picton fishermen had an exciting chase after a ' ' right " *vhale in Tory Channel last week, but the rough weather prevented its capture. A humpback whale 44ft in length was, however, secured by one of the three boats. It is estimated to yield four tuns of oil.