ANGLO COLONIAL NOTES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) London, June 28.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 389, 31 July 1889, Page 6

ANGLO COLONIAL NOTES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT .) London, June 28.

, MRS GORDON-BAILIE. ■ - Lady Colin Campbells latest "woman's walk " has, I see, been to Millbank Female Prison, which, you may roihamber, I described to you when I went over it with some colonial friends a few years back. Amongst other persons Lady Colin 3aw Mrs Gordon - Baillie, and this is what she says about hoi-: — k 'As we enter another gallery of cells the warder whispers, to me, '"Tho first cell on the left.' The door, like all the cell doors, has been thrown open, and inside, facing us, tall, erect, her head thrown back, stands a most' beautiful woman. > Thb strong light from the window falls on a mass of dark golden hair, which seems to Xebel openly against the white prison-cap. r^he its bright dark'oyes, is somewhat: 1 in "shadow ; and as she stands there in thevvhite cell she looks like some -wild falcon^ that" has been trapped and ''caged for a 'tim'e /o'hly. and who, as soon as she regains her libe/'ty, will know how to use her strong pinions, as well, as her beak and talons just as well as ever she did. . And it may Tpo said that she has used them, for this beautiful creature is nono other than the notorious Mrs Gordon-Baillio, whose brilliant career of fraud came to an abrupt conclusion some months ago, when she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by a hai'd-hearted judge who had evidently no feeling for beauty."' Mrs 0. B. on dit is £he reverse of a tractable prisoner and gives the warders no end of trouble.

THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S GOLDMINING- COMPANY. •Notwithstanding the hostile criticism of the "Financial News,"f ' the Queen Charlotte's Goldmining Company appears to have a fair prospect ofgoi'ng'througb". New Zealand Ventures generally are of course at a discount, in fact, in financial* circles the \ cry name of the colony stnvks. Still, the promoter who is arranging matters' seems hopeful. <He, however, insists on the capital being reduced from '£200,000 to £130,000, which means that sharoholders in the Antimony Gompany, instead of .getting share for share in the "Queen 6h'ar-lob&J:miqe,>.wiH only get one share in the latter for every two theyhold .in the former.

SIR W. F. JERVOIS. , At #\e meeting of the Royal Society on Thursday next Sir Win. Jervois will be formally received into fellowship. The "F.R.S. is, of course you are aware, the Blue Kibb'on of Science^ and more coveted by many than a peerage. Sir Wm. and Lady Jervois are at present stopping at Lord Carnarvon's lovely House-on-the-Lake, at Highclerc, which "has been placed at their disposal for some weeks.

. SIR CHARLES. CLIFFORD "AT HOME." Sir Charles Clilftnd gives an " Ab Home in Eabon Square to-morrow evening, to which the elite of Anglo-Colonial and Catholic-society are invited. The parties at this house generally prove great crushes. Most of the New Zealanders will go on later to Mrs James Farmer's dance at Porchegter Gtite, where they are sure to finel 1 a "capital >-'floor and a sumptuous supper. Mr Gisboine's sister, Lady Evans, died last week after a long illness. Sir W. Evans ha» »•» consequence &hut ud hie *•«"'" house, and tho, C-ÜBDornoa iiavo returned to Wales. l After passing .through Sandhurst brilliantly, Mr 'Lionel Gisborne has been forced to give up entering the army. It seems he. unfortunately suffered not long since fr§>m an attack of rheumatic fever, and this — as so often happens — left ill results behind in the shape of a stiffened hand (the sword hand). The doctors hope to put the matter right in a month or two, but the Duke of Cambridge having allowed two extensions of time aheady, could noo see his way bo grant a ■third. "Young Mr Gisborne will therefore^ instead of " going wheie glory waits him, ' and that sorb of thing, seek forensic renown at the bar. Naturally, both he and Jii& friends are disappointed, as he passed all the army exams, with flying colours.

A NEW ZEALAND DIVORCE CASE. The case Of Warnes v. Warnes and Boby was up. before the .Divorce Court again yesterday. , 1 detailed particulars some mails back. Petitioner I ,' who is now a hSh merchant at Lowestaft", met and married his wife at Christchurch, New Zealand, in February, 1884. After living: with him two rnonthssho Suddenly left him. Later she bignmously married the co-respondent Boby. The circumstances are peculiarMr Searle, who appeared for the petitioner, said some time ago his clic-:nt went to New Zealand, where he became < acquainted with the respondent. She represented that she was a widow with a child. He married her aba Roman Catholic church 1 at Christchurch, New Zealand, on the 29th | February, 1884. At the end of two months she suddenly left him. A note she left be- | hind her- stated that her " brother " was taking her away. She afterwards wrote him a letter saying that she hated him, and would npver again live with him. She embarked on boaid a ship and he followed her. He tried ,t.o induce her to return, bub she declined to do &o. Upon their arrival in London she managed bo give him the slip (laughter). He returned to New Zealand, and on the Bth Juno, 1887, she came back to Christchurqh. She expressed great sorrow for what she had done, but roJused to give any account where she had' been. Subsequently she received some letters and telegrams which she refused to show to her husband, A deed ot separation was then drawn up; bub 'before it was executed she disappeared, went to England, where she was ! foun3'to be living with the corespondont, add with whom she had contracted a bigamous marriage. Mr Boby last .May preselibed a" petition in this Court for nullity of marriage, which was undefended, and ho obtained a decree vhi. — Mr Robert George WavnesJ bhe petibioner, was called. He said he idenbified his wife ab Ostend last May, she being .there served with the divorce papers. — Mr Henry Sadler Boby,, bhe co-rospondQnt, clerk to a firm of stockbrokers in the city, gave evidence as to his marriage with the respondent on the sth of August, 1884, at the Registry Office, Ed-> monton, he believing that she was a single woman. That marriage was declared nulli and void last May. — Evidence having been given of the legality of the New Zealand marriage, his lordship granted a decree 7Wsf,

A gentleman said to the minister : " Whon do you expect to see Deacon S. \ again?" '"Never," said the reverend gentleman solemnly ; " the Deacon is in heaven." The man who wants to get ahead of time when* going for a train should use the spur ot the- moment. Thelatest baby-story. A boy being asked to compose a sentence containing the word "anonymous," gravely wrote, "Our new baby is anonymous."«yDid the teacher smile ? You bet, ' In, a girl's room' all roads lead to the looking glass.