WITH SORROW TO THE GRAVE.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 230, 11 July 1885, Page 2

WITH SORROW TO THE GRAVE.

The death of poor old Lord Cairns (writes the Dunedin Star's London Correspondent), though sudden was not unexpected by tho.se who knew him best. He put a good face on the follies of his silly son, but in reality they half broke l»s heart. A self-made man himself, proud, ambitious, clever, and as " hard a* iiiuls," the asinine capacity of Garmoyle simply drove Lord Cairns frantic. Had his sou been a clever scamp the old lawyer might have borne it better, but to have begotten a downright fool was bitter, indeed. Lord Garmoyle. with his sloping forehead, shifty eyes, irresolute mouth, and self-satisfied smirk, takes after his mother, a watery evangelical old ladj, who can talk nothing but tracts. He was brought up in an atmosphere of religious cant, and seldom allowed to mix with other lads. When at last he obtained his freedom he, as you know, made the most of it. The sudden decease ©f the late Lord Chancellor was announced to the public in a somewhat odd manner. A pedestrian passing Liudisfarne (the Cairns' place at Bournemouth) on Thursday morning, observed a half sheet of note-paper attached to the gate-post. The memo was in the handwriting of the newly-made widow, and briefly notified that Lord Cairns had " entered into rest at 6.45."