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

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 395, 21 August 1889, Page 6

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

MRS GORDON-BAILLIE. ■ j .•• Lady Colin Campbells latest "woman's, walk " has, I see,, been to Millpank Female, Prison, which, you may remamber, I dos-, cribed to you when I went over it with some colonial friends a few yoara -back. Amongst other persons , Lady Colin saw Mrs ' Gordon - Baillie, and this ,is what she says abbut ; her : — "'As we, enter another gallery of cells the warder whispers to me, 'The first cell on the lef bl * s ' The door, like all' the, cell doors, has been thrown open, and inside, facing us, tall,' orect, her head thrown back, stands a most beautiful woman. The strong light from the window falls on a mass of dark golden hair, which seems to rebel openly against the white prison-cap.' ,The facjß, JOtifh its bright dark oyes, is somewfiat m snactow ; and as she stands there in the white cell she looks like some wild falcon that hqß been trapped and caged for a time only, and who, as soon as she regains hot 1 liberty, 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 be said,,that she has used them, ior this beautiful creature is none other ,thah the notorious Mrs Gordon-Baillie, whoss brilliant career of fraud came to an abrupt conclusion somo month 3 ago, when she waa sentenced to five years' imprisonment by a hard-hearted judge who had evidently no feeling for beauty." Mrs G. B. on clit is the reverse of a tractable prisoner and gives the warders no end of trouble.

THE 'QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S GOLDMINING COMX'ANY. Notwithstanding the hostile criticism of fche "Financial New?," the Queen Charlotte's Goldniining Company appears to [ have a fair prospect of going through. !New Zealand ventures generally are of course at a discount, in fact, in financial circles the very name of the colony stinks. 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 shareholders in the Antimony Company, instead of getting share -for share in the Queen 'Chai'lofcte*. mine, .'will orily get one share in the latter for every two they hold in the former.

SIR W. P. JBRVOIS. At t the meeting of the Royal Society on Thursday next Sir Wtn. Jervois will be formally received into fellowship. The JT.K.S. is, of course you are aware, the Blue Kibbon of Science, and more coveted by many than a peerage. Sir Win, 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 Clifford gives an " Ab Home in Eafcon Square to-morrow evening, to which the elite of Anglo-Colonial and Catholic society are invited. The parties ab this house generally prove great ciushes. Most of the New Zealanders will go on later to Mrs James Farmer's dance at Porch ester Cate, where they are sure to iind a capital floor and a sumptuous supper. Mr Gisborne's sister, Lady Evans, died last week after a long illness. Sir W. Evans has in consequence shut up his town house, and the Gisbornes have returned to Wales. After passing through Sandhursl brilliantly, Mr Lionel (iisborne has been forced to give up entering the army. It seems he unfortunately suffered not long since from> ttri attack of rheumatic fever, and this — as so often happens — left ill results behind in the shape of a stiffened hand (fche sword hand). The doctors hope to put the matter right in a month or two, bub the Duke of Cambridge having allowed two extensions of time already, could noo see his way to grant a third. Young Mr Gisborne will therefore, instead of " going where glory waits him,'' and that sorb of thing, seek forensic renown ab the bar. Naturally, both he and his friends are disappointed, as he passed all b".ie army exams, with flying colours.

A NEW ZEALAND DIVORCE CASE. The case of Warnes v. Warnes and Boby was up before the Divoice Court again yesterday. I detailed particulars some mails back. Petitioner, who is now a fioh merchant at Lowestaff, met and married his wife at Christchurch, New Zealand, in February, 1884. After living with him two months she suddenly left him. Later she bigamously married the co-respondent Boby. Tho circumstances are peculiar. Mr Searle, who appeared for the petitioner, said some ,time ago his client went to J New 'Zealatid, -where he became acquainted with the respondent. She represented that she was a widow with a child. He married her at a Roman Catholic church at Christchurch, New Zealand, on the 29th February, 1884. At the end of two months she suddenly left him. A note she left behind her stated thai her " brother " was taking her away. She, afterwards wrote him a letter saying thab she hated him, and would never again Hye with him. She embarked on board a ship and he followed her. He tried to induce her to return, but she declined to do so. Upon their arrival in London she managed to give him the slip (laughter). He returned to New Zealand, 1 and on the Bth June, 1887, she came back to Christchurch. She expressed great sorrow for what she had done, but refused 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 drdwn up, but before it was! executed she' disappeared, and went to England, where she was found to be living with the co--respondent, and with whom she had contracted a bigamous marriage. Mr Boby last May presented a petition in this Court for nullity of marriage, which was undefended, and ho obtained a decree nhi- — Mr Robert George Warnes, the petitioner, 'was called. He said he identified his wife at Ostend la3t May, she being there served ,with the divorce papers,— Mr Henry Sadler Boby, j the co-respondent, 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, Edmonton, he believing that she was a single woman. That marriage was declared null and void last May. — Evidence having been given of the legality of the New Zealand marriage, his lordship granted a decree nisi.

> A gentleman said, to the -minister: " When do you expect to sco 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 UBe the spur ot the moment. > . The latest baby-story. A boy bein masked to compose a sentence containing' the word "anonymous," gravely w,rote ; "Our new ' r baby is anonymous.*' Did the teacher smile V You bet. 1 !> , 1 In a girl's room all roads lead to the looking glass.