A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 10 April 1884, Page 2

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

A remarkable career 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 Baker, tho young widow of an Indian General, fell m 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 poriod 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 Baker, who is 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 j the Duchess, learning that Mr Rroonie had literary aspirations, introduced hira to the late Mr Delane, and Mr Broome soon became a writer on tho "Times," and wrote among other articles that which at the time excited so much attention anent Mrs Stowe'a charges against Lord Ryron and his sister. The same interest subsequently got him the Secretaryship of the Mauritius, whence he was promoted to Western Australia,—"Yanity Fair."