Lord Dysart.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 2

Lord Dysart.

Lord Dysart, who comes into £200,000 worth of New Zealand property when he is thirty-five,has just had a welcome home to the Ham estates. It wos a great event in the villages of Ham and Petersham, for Ham House has not been the residence of the holder of the title for many years past. In fact, the great house had got into such a state of dilapiiatioo that it has taken two years to get it into good repair, only the interest of the money being used. Lord Dysart, who is severely afflicted, bad two addresses given to him one from Petersham, the other from the tenants and parishioners of Ham. To both the earl briefly returned thanks. Lord Dysart entered liam House by the avenue that is called the “ Melancholy Walk, ’ through the legendary gates, which are only opened once in a lifetime of each earl. It was through these gates that Charles 11., on an emergency, passed to escape from the Roundheads. There were great festivities in the evening for the tenants and villagers on the old-fashioned lawn, and a dinner in the hall for those of higher social degree. Lori Dysart is a Radical of the Radicals in politics. lie does not care for society, but he is passionately fond of music. The Hon. Algernon Tollemache, who at one time was a squatter in New Zealand, and is grand uncle to the young earl, has now left Ham House, in a portion of which he resided, and is living at Wiok House, adjutting on the Terrace at Bichtnond.