GRAVE SCANDAL IN HIGH The Governor of Madras and His Wife.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 March 1889, Page 4

GRAVE SCANDAL IN HIGH The Governor of Madras and His Wife.

The Madras correspondent of the 'Allahabad Morning Post ' v. rites : — The separation of Lord and Lady Connemara is the absorbing topic of conversation in Madras. Her Excellency left Government House on Wednesday last, and is now residing at one of the local hotels. It is reported that she pioceeds to England by an early steamer. Captain Wyndham Quinn, aide-de-camp, has applied for lea\ c, and Brigade -Surgeon Briggs, surgeon to the Governor, has resigned his appointment. Lady Connemara arrived at Madras on Monday from Ooty. At Wednesday evening's Government House dance she was missed by the guests ; and on inquiry it was found that there had been a domestic squabble. LadyConnemaraleftGovernment House that clay, and took rooms at the Albany Hotel. The dance was kept up, Lord Connemara enjoying himself thoroughly. The reports why her ladyship left her husband's residence are too delicate to unveil at present, but it may be conjectured that theie is something very serious tor the lady to have taken this step. Madras is simply disgusted at the nature of the reports, and, accepting them as true, sympathises with her ladyship, though in some quartets it is considered that Lady Connemara acted indiscreetly in leaving Government House and creating this soandal. The pressing solicitations of friends failed to induce her ladyship to rejoin her husband. Captain Quinn, A.D.C. , who obtained leave immediately alter this occurrence, left for Calcutta yesterday by the liohilla, with his wife, Lady Eva Quinn, both of whom, it is said, will not return to Government House. Lord Connemara, who, as the Right Hon. Robert Bourke, was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Lord Beaconstield's Government, is sixty-one years of age. He was appointed to succeed Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff as Governor of Madras, and has about three more years to serve before the full term of his service expires. He is a brother of the distinguished and lamented Earl of Mayo. Lord Connemara has hitherto been very popular with all classes of the community, and those who have carefully watched his career since he arrived in Madras, rather more than two years ago, will not be surprised at the consternation caused by the occurrences referred to above. Lady Connemara is the daughter of the celebrated Marquis of Dalhousie, who as Viceroy of India, gave the first impulse to the material advancement of that country by the introduction of railways. Lord "and Lady Connemara have been married twenty-five years. His Excellency was raised to the peerage amid general approval soon after his acceptance of the Madras Governorship, and his wife was created by her Majesty a Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.

If you want to see an expiession of severe simplicity and child-like innocence in a man's face, watch him when he gets half-a-crovvn change out of a two-shilling piece. An embarrassed young man, who had just boen married by a clergyman, not knowing how to express his gratitude, in handing over a small fee, said : "I hope to give you more next time." At a recent glove fight at Island Bay, it is stated that the Hon. George Fisher, Minister of Education, was present, a chair having been specially reserved for him, and that ho sab out the whole performance.