A COLONIAL ROMANCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2474, 11 December 1886, Page 2

A COLONIAL ROMANCE.

The writer of the Melbourne Dramatio letter in the Canterbury Times tells a romantic tale of two well known people in Victoria. The story here and there is scarcely complote,' probably dUFto tho fact that some of the events are a dozen years old; here is our own vorsion., In 1873 Fairolough appeared as Hamlet at tho Thoatre Royal, Melbourne. Being a first night a large audience was -present, and many wished to seo the Ophelia, Miss Eugenio Logrand. She had boen in Paris during the time it was besieged, and her story having beoomo known, thore was an eager rush to see her first performance. Her acting was good onough, but it was no more English than her voice, and aftor a short season she retired, Miss Carey taking her place, if. we remomber rightly. Fairolough after his Melbourne season visited Adolaide, and waß not accompanied by Miss Legrand, who was generally supposed to' be tho tragedian's wife. The lady made the: acquaintance of Kyrle Bellew, a son of the well-known Irißh reader of the same' name, then a reporter on the Melbourne Telegraph, and bofore that on the staff of the Herald. They, were married, and after about a fortnight separated, Bellew having an attaok of brain fevor. When he recovered he sailed to England at the second mate of a clipper. Miss .Legrand visited Fiance, and afterwards played successfully in the colonies. In Victoria thoro were two nephews of Sir Samuel Wilsonj owners of a good squatting property, but full of the exuboranco. of youth, and had they boen leas wealthy would have been pronounced larrikins. At Horsham they took possession of the lock-up one night, but that *aa carrying things too far and a severe penalty was inflicted, a fine being refused. One of the brothers married the daughter of a well-known eve doctor and settled down, owning a good racehorso or two, tho other disappeared, Miss Legrand had conquered him, and ho foilowed hor everywhere. She in her turn was in quest of Kyrle Bellew, who had rison to fame as an actor. Like Evangeline, she repeatedly missed him, but everywhere her faithful lovor accompanied her. At length the husband, who had not seen bit wife for a dozon years, methor. A divorco followed, and now she is Mrs Wilson; and sure to. be made much" of in Melbourne society .as her husband is very rich. Thus ends a colonial romance.