THE SOCIAL WORLD.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 57, 18 January 1890, Page 3

THE SOCIAL WORLD.

Notes on Current Social Events

— The new Lord P. r ~yor of London is a cousin of Mrs H. P. Cohen . „£ Napier.

— Miss D' 1 -- Lynch, one of Auckland's most accorr-'.oiiedjowwmfe.?, left by the Wairarapa last v>eek en route to the Exhibition at Dunedin.

— Baron Von Mueller, of Melbourne, is entitled to wear more decorations than - any other man in Australia. He wears them, too, when he gets a chance.

— We regret to announce the tl^th —nt i: is residence, Manukau Road — of disc^-:- el' '*'•■»■< heart, of John Conyngham McCat. •'•■.v.>. :zsn. T P ■ i well-known and respected cina-.-n. i'lio uooeaaud gentleman was third son of this late Reverend John Conyngham MeCausland, of Harapstead Hall, Londonderry, and formerly Rector of Olonmore, County Louth. He leaves a wife and family of grown-up daughters and sons to monrn Ms loss, which was very sudden. Of the latler (who are well-known in business as well as athletic circles), Mr Elsmere McCausiand is in the Bank of New Zealand ; Mr Marcus McCausiand, Bank of Australasia ; Mr James McCausiand, Colonial Mutual Life Assurance, as well as his elder brother, Mr McCausiand, agent for the Mutual Life Assurance of Victoria.

— It is whispered in Melbourne that an interesting dispute about a baronetcy is soon likely to be made public, the claimant being at present an engine-driver on one of the suburban railway lines. His father, a captain in the Imperial army, came to the colonies in the early days, married beneath him, and, although his son got a college education, failed to place him in any high position.. The heir's sister married a medical man practising in an up country town in Victoria, and the baronial scion is himself married to a quiet, unassuming Victorian. He is a tall broad-shouldered man about thirty years of age, and when his claims become known many heads will be strained to get a look at the blueWooded engine-driver. The family name is a double-barrelled one, and the title dates from the Battle of the Boyne.