LONDON IN THE SEASON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 234, 2 October 1880, Page 4

LONDON IN THE SEASON.

: The London correspondent of the Star writes: — ; London is very gay, and up to within the last few days a visit to Hyde Park would give a stranger an opportunity of seeing all the rank and fashion of England. It was, indeed, a grand sight. The Princess of Wales and her threo daughters were there, with the Prince on horseback. But the grand show of all since I have been here was the Fete at Kensington House, in aid of the sufferers from the loss of the Atalanta. Mrs Langtry, the great beauty, with Lady Augusta Vane and Countess jLonsdale, had a stall for the sale of button-hole flowers. Mrs Langtry is Si most charming woman, and was dressed in bright gold satin. But the Princess of Wales looked very lovely. •She was dressed in a peacock green satin with gold spots. . Bonnet to match Iwifch golden grapes. The Princess "Christian had a stall in the corner of one room, and she drove her trade right briskly, gathering in tjie money as if she had been used to shopkeeping all her life. She is a very stout, ordinary looking woman, but I daresay kindhearted enough. The Princess Mary jof Teck did, I think, the best business 'of the whole lot, for the time she was at it. Talk about stoutness, she is a terror, but she carries it very well. Blue satin dress. Most of the dresses there were flaming red, and I see Marshall and Snelgrove are going in strong for scarlet, or rather cardinal red, so my jfe!p for ladies' dress for twelve months is ;cai dinal red—black and bugle trimming. jKensington House,-where-the fete was jheld, was built by . Albert Grant,, of (Emma Mine notoriety, at a - cost of ;£350,000, and is-now in the hands of !the liquidators. It is a" nidej;'" elegant place. The crowd at the fete - wa3 really nothing to boast about, and I looked round to see if the patrician had anything in his appearance out of the common, but I must say I have seen as welfdressed, and as good lookinga crowd in the colonies. The fete Was .a' great success, £1,000 being taken in money alone,, independent of the tickets at ;10s 6d each, which were sold several days before, and also the money which iwas taken at the stalls. Lady ,Borthwick hadher lottery stall on the terrace. The tickets were Is each, and- prizes were so well arranged that old beaux .would win woolly-headed rabbits and idolls, aud young men pinafores, dolls, and other most unlikely things, which, of course, they could not carry- away, so her stock was almost as large at the end of the day as at the commencement.

The Dominion Government has, according to the Ottawa Herald, all but completed the negotiations with an English syndicate for the formation of a company with a capital of £20,000,000 to construct the whole of the Pacific railway, a land-subsidy .of 50,000,000 acres being granted to the company. Heartrending accounts continue to arrive of the systematic, extermination

of Iho Mussulmans of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumolia. According to one of them which is published here to-day, no less than twenty- three townships, situated partly in Bulgaria and partly in Eastern Rournelia, have been plundered and burnt to the ground. Out of eighty Mussulman prisoners, four were hung by order of a Bulgarian priest, and a number of the rest were massacred on their way to Varna. These deeds of horror are deliberately perpetrated by the peasants, militiamen, tho members of the gymnastic societies and the Roumelian gensdarmes. The anthorities take an active part in them, as was proved by the conduct of the Prefect of Aidos, who, prior to the massacre at Bellova, publicly stated that the Mussulmans must be exterminated by the Bulgarians. In Eastern Ronmelia, evimes of the most ghastly description are commited daily against the Mussulmans, without distinction of age or sex. " Vienna Correspondent of tho London Telegraph." A Chicago girl overdid the decori ative art business. She ornamented the kitchen range with grass and ferns, so that when it was red hot the mimic ; vegetation looked cool .md inviting. Her lover found her one day, like Weri ther's Charlotte, cutting bread and butter. The decorative stove seduced him to sit squarely upon it while he plied | the fair creature with the honey of compliments. He now bears the letters, " Eureka Rangei'Nb. 8," and in revenge has gone to St. Louis to swell the census. The following Was the full text of ' the clause which Sir 'William Fox proposed to introdnce into the abortive Licensing Bill — " Every person holding a publican's, club, or packet license shall at all times during which his house or vessel is open for the sale of intoxicating liquors, keep for sale iv his bar, or some place easily accessible and adjoining thereto, a supply of ginger beer, lemonade and soda water, aud of hot tea and coffee, with sugar ready for immediate use, and also some articles of solid food,- such as buns, biscuits, sandwicho3, bread and cheese, or the like, for sale at reasonable prices to any person who may demand the. same;.and any . person 'ne'j*;lecting or refusing to keep or to sell -such articles, shall, for every such, neglect or refusal, be liable to a penalty ,of live pounds.. The correspondent of the American Herald writes from Te Rore:— Tho settlers here have had somewhat oi" , a disappointment, as ifc was for a short dime believed that the millennium, had arrived. Some natives, a week iago, came to Mr Southern in a great State of ereitement saying that they .had caught the devil, who had been roaming about their settlement at "Waitetuna. They asked Mr Southern if he had horns and cloven feet, and being told that these were popularly believed to be two of the characteristics of his personal appearance,' became even mttre eicitedj and begged Mr Southern to accompany themto the settlement and see"Taipo" for himself, for their dogs had captured him, and they had then tied him with ropes, and placed him in a wbare, over which a guard was set. On the road they informed Mr Southern that "Taipo" was a vegetarian, having eaten up the cabbages and other vegetables. Arrived at the whare Mr Southern found that the natives had captured a fine stag, an animal they had never seen or heard of, and advised them to let it go, as it was" probably one of those released some time ago down Point Russell The natives, however, said they would not let it loose, or, like the sparrows and pheasants, it would increase, and their cabbages would faro no better by-and-by than their oats "and corn do now. They have sicco untied the animal, and erected a tall tea-tree fence round the wbare, Baying the animal is theirs, as it dropped from heaven into their settlement.