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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 5

"TholDaughter of a Duke" in the Divorce Court. The " daughter of a Duke," whose lucubrations in the "Town and Country Journal " afford glimpses of what Franchmen call "the 'igh life " to benighted N. S. Welshmen, figures in the Divorce Court just now under somewhat painful circumstances. Lord Colin Campbell accuses his wife of "goings on" with no less than eleven co-respondents, amongst them being Dr. Bird, a ta<?hionablo physician, Colonel Butler, C.B. (author of the "Great Lone Laud," and husband of Miss Thompson the artist), Captain Shaw of the Fire Brigade, and the Duke of Marlborough (better known as Lord Blandford),who must find it exceeding^ unpleasant to have an accueation of this sort cropping up just when he has sown his last wild oats and settled down respectable. Lady Colin, on the other hand, acj CUB6B her husband of marital outrages too horrible to name. Altogether, it is a very pretty kettle of fish, and likely to afford the lawyers plenty of work.

Sir Philip Owen's Reign at an End The sudden decision not to re-open the " Colindies " next year, which the Executive (without consulting the Royal Commission) came to laef Saturday, -was brought about by the influence of the Prince of Wales, who sent for Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, and had a long talk with him a few days previously. The* interview cannot have been an altogether pleasant one, for shortly afterwards the worthy knight remarked to a colonial commissioner : "My reign is over. The new?papera are all down on me,, and now the Prince has turned crusty."

The Imperial Institute. The Agents General visited th^ Guildhall on Wednesday afternoon to confer with the Lord Mayor and the Mansion House Committee re the projected Imperial Institute. The result of their deliberations is being kept a profound sseret, but it has leaked out that tbe City men made a dead set against thelnstkute being opened next yoar on tha ground that it would practically be a re-vivitication of the Colonial Exhibition, which has already been vetoed by Royalty, and which no one outside South Kensington desires. The feeling of the meeting waß decidedly in favour of opening the InsMtute in ISSS, and the Lord Mayor was instruced to interview H.R.H. and tell him this. It seems to be thought inevitable that the South Kensington site should be adhered to, but the Owen clique are to be cleared out " nock and crop," and an entirely new management organised.