LORD AND LADY BULLER.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 20, 18 October 1901, Page 4

LORD AND LADY BULLER.

Lady Audrey Buller, wife of General Puller, is a clever, distinguished aud charming woman. She has a keenly intelligent face amd vivacious, pleasant manners, which make her one's ideal of what a cultured and kinaly English-woman should be. She was especially singled out for conversation by Queen Victoria at the famous gar-den-party abont this time last year. Lady Audrey is very beloved in Aldershot, where she has made the cause of "Tommy's" wife and children her own. Lady Audrey was a wealthy widow with two daughters and a son when General Buller, himself a rich man, met and married her. His step-daugh-ters, the Misses Howard, are energetic young lades who help their mother in her many good works. The widow of poor Lord Airlie, who is now in residence at Farnborough Castle with her children, is a great ally and intimate friend of Lady Audrey's, and shares her enthusiasm for all that concerns the soldiers. Herself a very talented woman, the General's wife swiftly and practically shows her approval of any especially-gifted helper in her various good works, and such a one is sure of strenuous backing from the greatest lady in Aldershot.

Sir Redvers Buller, says one who sa ,v him recently, is a little greyer, a. little older, a little less vigorous than when when he sailed from England for South Africa. "Poor Buller!" was Lord Roberts's comment after he had inspected the battle field and the surroundings of Colenso. And men and officers who were in close contact, with the General during the awful pilgrimage to Ladysmith noted that a distinct physical change after the catastrophe at Colenso. He aged ten years in as many h< u\s, _ But he teems to find life a happy, if a, busy thing at Aldershot—that wonderful red-bruk, huge, overgrown village in the heart of the pine country. He is out early In the morning, often riding the fine horse he bought from the King, and sometimes accompanied by his only daughter, a clever girl of nineteen with dark eyes and hair.