Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 January 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

. - — i — i — ♦ A writer, in the National Review says oiMr,,Balfour:— He has, in a remariiabje^ manuer, ' ; revived the popular administration for pluck. He has clone this to such an extent that mere oratory, the solemn traffic in rolling ; periods with a " Moral A tone," is out of vogue, with his clean record, and that calm, invincible, gystemftti^-i'esolution which charac.terisefc his speeches ' as well as his administrative work, Mr Balfour is a statesman as facinating ..to the masses as he is attractive and congenial to men of education and culture.

The marriage of the Marquis of , Ailsa the other day had something of a romance attaching to it. The heroine, had, it seems been out to India in connection with Zenana mission work, and returning by a P. and 0. steamer met the Marquis, who was a fellow passenger, bhe ' had been very active nursing some of the sick on board, and the Marquis soon became interested in her. Interest deepened into affection, and as a love laughs at social distinction, he hod beford England was reached proposed- marriage.