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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 31

Lord Salisbury gave the late Duke of Rutland's Garter to Lord Londonderry merely as a bribe to induce bim to remain at Dublin, and thereby he seriously ofiended several influential peers, who considered, and not unreasonably, that they ought to have been preferred to a young man who was playing in his ntuaery wheD they were working hard and spending money for the party. List week, in order still further to conciliate Lord Londonderry, •id » v>»rently tot the purpose of showing that the Queon approvei of t,bo atrocious Irish policy of the Government, her Majesty was prevailed upon to invest Lord Londonderry personally at Windsor, a cermony which she has nor performed for any Knight of the Garter for several years past. He had a private ceremonial all to himself, although t ere was to be an inveatiture of the minor Orders in a f«w daye. — Truth.