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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1161, 28 September 1882, Page 2

Menotti Garibaldi denies that he has been reeruiting for Arabi Pasha. The Brush Electric Light Company has distributed an in/erim dividend of £245,000, equal to 100 per cent. Sir George Bowen has obtained an extension of leave, in order to recruit his health. He is at present at Kissengen. Pollock Castle, Renfrewshire, one of the oldest family seats in Western Scotland, has been set on fire. The loss is estimated at £BO,OOO. The Prince of Wales will go to the German Spas to drink the waters. The Times devotes a leading article to the subject of H.R.H.’s health.

The bar has now added to its lexicon a new simile. At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, a legal gentleman was desirous of impressing upon the bench the virulence of the language used on the opposite side, and so he said “the language was gross; that abominable language which was so prevalent in Parliament at the present time. ” The Duke of Westminster has married Lady Catherine Cavendish. Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, first Duke of Westminster, was born 13th October, 1825. In April, 1852, he married Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland Leveson-Gower. In 1874 the marquisate < was merged into a dukedom, and on the 19th I of December, 1880, the Huke sustained the I sad loss of a devoted and affectionate wife. Lady Catherine Cavendkh, now Duchess of Westminster, is a fister of the late ill-fated Stewetwy Ireland- I