A GREAT CONTRAST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1368, 21 July 1885, Page 3

A GREAT CONTRAST.

The death of poor old Lord Cairna (writes the Dunedin Star’s London correspondent), though sudden, was not unexpected by those who knew him best. He put a good face publicly on the follies of his silly son, but in reality they half broke his heart, A self-made man himself, ambitious, proud, clever, and “as hard as nails,” the asinine capacity of Garmoyle simply drove Lord Cairns frantic. Had his son been a clover scamp the old lawyer would have borne it better, but to have begotten a downright fool was bitter indeed. Lord Garmoyle, with bis sloping forehead, shifty eyes, irresolute month, and self-satisfied smirk, takes after his mother, a watery evangelistical old lady, who can talk nothing but tracts. Ha was brought up in an atmosphere of religious cant, and seldom allowed to mix with other lads. When at last he obtained his freedom, he, as you know, made the most of it. The sudden decease of the late Lord Chancellor was announced fp‘ the public in a somewhat odd manner: pedestrian passing Lindisfarne (the Cairns’ place at Bournemouth) on Thursday morning observed a half sheet of notepaper attached to the gate post. The memo, was in the hand-writing of the nowlymsde widow ; and briefly notified that Lord Cairns had “ entered into rest at 6.45.”