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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2470, 7 December 1886, Page 2

A, notability of fashion has disappeared recently by the financial oallapse of Coloiel Learmonth.. His wife, one of th» chief hostesses ohocioty, was the modern Mrs Malaprop- to whom every ridiculous' ■ speeoh of modern years has'baoif put down -as, for instance, that she Intended to have her portrait painted by one of the old masters; that her. bootmaksra were Messrs Droits eiffawc/w; and aftercoflft . . ing the Channel sho was always giaolß' b9 on Terra Gotta again, A private letter, received fronf Mlii Genevieve Ward, datediNewport, United'-. ■ States. October 12, states that she wait, about to commence at the' Star "Theatre •' Mow York, an American engagement ■ which will extend over 84 weeks; and will carry her over the greater part of tho Union. She will be supported by Mr Vernon. Miss tyard hopes the Women'i t Hospital in Melbourne is finished, and *'• that its inmates are enjoying the. benefit of it._ She is afraid she will never see it. Miss ViotoriaMorosini, the youns( lady who eloped with and married her father 1 ! ' \ coachman, and afterwards went-.upon the stage, where she mado a very poor figure, has grown tired of love in a cottage, and of the bickerings and quarrels which aroso between her husband and • herself,: after the glamor of a first passion had'diaap- ■■•' peared, has gone baok like a penitent, to. •' ; the homo of her parents, ■■■;.: ; '^ At Vienna the performances of the •' "Mikado" by an English company at. the. WKarl Theatre, have resulted in a • loss of '. <■■ £2OOO to the managers of the undertaking • '■? t The press spoke very highly ; of the opera! '••-■■ X and of its interpretation, but the weather ':• -•'•'. was vory hot, comparatively 'few'-: peopSitf in the Austrian capital know,anything. tho English language, and the result was''•"-•"' a failure. . ;.••■.,•.

ft i scut ,™tly reported., in:'Paria, that ' M. s professional tqun .through the United States has been to retrieve, him from financial difficulties He had entrusted a financial friend with' the management of £16,000, representing the savings bf a life-time r and%i frjend : has made ducks and drakes of the money. On his return from America M, Coquelb ■■> will become, it is said, the manage» of J one of the PwiiianTheatre*. "