A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 120, 1 May 1884, Page 2

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

A remarkable career (according to Vanity Fair) is that of Governor Napier Broome, of Western Australia. As a youth he emigrated to New Zealand, and in the intervals of sheep-tending studied hard. Going home for a holiday, he renewed acquaintance with Lady Barker, the young widow of an Indian general, fell in love, and pressed his suit, which after a long while was successful, and his wife went out to his sheep station in New Zealand, of which she has written so charmingly. A disastrous pastoral period came, and Mr. Broome suffered so severely that he resolved to return to England. About that time a distinguished duchess was mourning her first-born son, a child of some eight years. Chance brought her into communication with Lady Barker, who ir credited with possessing the powers of “a medium,” and by her means the Duchess communicated, or imagined she did, with her lost child. A great intimacy ensued between the ladies ; the Duchess learning, that Mr. Broome had literary aspirations introduced him to the late Mr. Delane, and Mr. Broome soon became a writer on the Times, and wrote, among other articles, that at the time which excited so much attention anent Mrs. Stowe’s charges against Lord Byron and his sister. The same interest subsequently got him the secretaryship of the Mauritius, whence he was promoted to Western Australia.