THE DUKE OF FIFE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 360

THE DUKE OF FIFE.

Everyone who is brought into contact with the Duke of rife is more or less charmed with his pleasant, open manners, and most of us can quite understand bis having attracted the girlish fancy of Princess Louise some vears ago—that girlish fancy which has since ripened into the deeply rooted love of an admiring wife. The little natural touch at the end of his address at the meeting of the Aborigines’ Protection Society was delightful. It would have been such an easy thing to have alluded in rather stilted language to the event which had happened at Sheen and, considering the character of the meeting, manv speakers would have considered it the proper thing. The more excellent way which the Duke of Fife chose, however, was the ‘one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin.’ As soon as he, in the capacity of chairman had advocated to the full the protection of the natives abroad, he apparently felt his duty was done, and began to wish himself at home. A few resolutions were proposed and seconded, and then the Duke simply stated ‘He was sure they would well understand his anxiety to return to his wife and child as soon as possible ’