NEWS BY THE LATE MAILS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10292, 26 April 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY THE LATE MAILS.

Lady Randolph CiiUßcniLL, -with whose widowhood most English folk are just now deeply sympathising, is as striking a personality &s was her late husband. Indeed there have been not a few who have attributed to her inspiration and wifely devotion a considerable share of the brilliant efforts which between 1880 and 1887 Lord Randolph put forward. Ceitain it ia that tho Primrose League, the most efficient electioneering machine ever invented, was largely the creation of the beautiful American heiress who married the English aristocrat just over twenty years ago. Lady Randolph was an enthusiastic electioneered and when there were contests at WooJstecK she drove about with her sister-in-law, Viscountess Curzon, in a tornado of enthusiasm and election colours. Her ladyship is the daughter of Mr Leonard Jerome, a wealthy New York banker, and a great patron of racing in the States. She is a lady of artistic and musical tastes, a perfect dresser and a charming hostess. Sir George Newnes, tho proprietor of a number of popular London periodicals, is the son of a Congrogational minister, and wa3 born at Matlook 43 years ago. While a commercial traveller, living in Manchester, ho started Tit-bits, which immediately | became an enormous success. It had, and still has, many rivals, but they do not seem to have injured its position. So speedily did fortune come to him that in 1885 he was wealthy enough to contest a county division — the Newmarket— which returned him as a Liberal, and has done so ever since. Mr Newnos has further served his party by starting the Westminster Gazette^ when. Mr Astor bought the Pall Mall and made it Unionist. He has a fine house at Wimbledon, and another in Devonshire, and a banking account finer thau either. Ho is a stout, good-looking man, business-like iv business hours, genial and generous out of them. Th 9 coat of the Russian Emperor's new yacht, the Standard, will reach something like £400,000. The Standard is of 5300 tons burden, and is 425 feet long. A' gentleman a few days ago, after going round the cathedral at Peterborough, called at the deanery and left a -cheque for £4000 for a new organ. The gold contained in the medals, vessels, chains, and other objects preserved in the Vatican would make more gold coin than the whole of tho present European circulation. The German New Guinea Company has had a largo number of silver and bronze coins struck at the mint in Berlin. Ono side of these coins shows their value, the reverse bear 3 a bird of paradise. M. Bogdanoff, first secretary ef the Russian Legation at Washington, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.' For Several weeks past he has been suffering "from severe pain 3in tho legs. ,The \udow of one oE the passengers on board the Elbe has given the 100,000 marks for which his life was insured towards the fund being raised for the widows and orphans of the drowned pass6ngera and crew. Her name is Schull.