HIGH LIFE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 437, 16 December 1876, Page 2

HIGH LIFE.

The London correspondent of the Derbyshire Times, September 2, writes, “Two new aristocratic scandals are in the wind, both of them involving the honour of peeresses, and both of them likely to be tried in the Divorce Court before Christmas. In one case a well-known Irish peer, the son of a statesman who met a violent death some years ago, is co-re-spondent. The same paper also contains the following Mr Henry Chaplin, the member for Mid-Lincolnshire,‘is about to marry into the great Whig family of the Sutherlands. He is engaged to Lady Florence Gower, the Duke of Sutherland’s eldest daughter (born 1855), and will, no doubt, have a very handsome dowry with her. It is to be hoped there will be no slip between the cup aud the lip this time. The last time Air Chaplin was about to be married the Marquis of Hastings quietly robbed him of his lady, and married her, much to the amusement of society and the annoyance of the Lincolnshire squire. This was some years ago, and everybody had concluded that Mr Chaplin would die a bachelor. He has aimed high this time, and is likely to be more successful."

■ It is a pitiable sight to see a woman, who but one short year ago possessed an angel’s sweetness of disposition, watching at the head of the stairs at two o’clock in the morning, with a towel-roller iu her hand.

One of the alpacas running on Mr Rhodes’ property at Clive has given birth to one of its kind. The young stranger is visited by numbers of the curious in andaround the district.

The following paragraph, from the Himalaya Chronicle, is the origin of the rumour that Bishop Cowie had been offered the Bishopric of Calcutta “It is rumoured that the Bishopric of Calcutta will be offered to Bishop Cowie, of Auckland, New Zealand. We hope the rumour is true, and that Dr. Cowie will come again to India as Bishop, where he was once a chaplain. He is well known in Bareilly, where he established a Christian colony, called after him, Cowiegunj. This colony is still iu a flourishing condition, aud under the fostering care of the Church Mission Society. At the Umbeyla campaign Dr. Cowie shewed himself the bravest of the brave. During that campaign we once heard a story of his climbing a crag, called the Eagle’s Nest, in the face of the enemy, because he thought that on the crag some wounded might need his friendly and priestly lwl;>.”

A valuable piece of evidence, which points to the probability of the moa having lived in comparatively recent times has just been brought to light. The Otago Daily Times states that wheu iu London Dr. Hector ascertained that in the British Museum there were certain cases which had been brought from New Zealand by Captain Cook, and wliich were still unopened. Dr. Hector was allowed to examine the boxes, which contained Maori curiosities, and in one of them was a spear, adorned with a tuft of moa feathers. With the permission of the trustees of the Museum, he detached one of the feathers, and he has brought it out to New Zealand, Strange that this evidence should have reposed in the cellars of the British Museum for a century.