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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

It is probable that next year’s show of the Royal Counties Agricultural Society will be held a: Bourne-mouth. Mrs F. Leslie has returned to America and has been interviewed. She seems to have justified her Christian name When she was told that Prince Kristoff had said he never asked for her hand in .marriage, "ho said, “Ah?" in an impressive tone, and commenced rummaging in her handbag. •She then went on to say that it would not lie right to show his letters. I should think not. film proceeded to toll the reporter her version of the Hyde park incident, in which it would appear that not only was the love they bore her tin; cause of the row, hut that it was owing to the love the Prince bore her that the noble marquis was saved. .She also says that Prince Eristoff quitted London suddenly, as lie expected “to lie called upon to assume flic throne in Bulgaria.” She ends ■ip hy savin”- she was engaged to both parties, hut jilted them, and declares, '■Positively I shall not marry the Prince.” What fun it must he to lie interviewed, and say anything you like. Ax extraordinary seenwas witnessed recently, at a meeting of creditors and depositors of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Building Society, now in liqnid timi. The members largely belong to the corking class.s and have lost their savings m the society's collapse which, it is 'ah-d, is due to advances exceeding £10!),IDO made to the Dimravcn Colliery •'.mi’ll Wales, now the property of the ■ i.-i -ly. The liquid-.tors called a meeting uu Monday night to present their report of flic !ir.-,l year's woi kiiig. ft showed less 10-s than w is a.-ilieipat. d. Whilst a d re .-- tor-a .is addressing the on et nig a member. who di-cl ire l that lie had List the savings of a lif. time, rushed fiom the body ot the hail to the platform, and made towards the director to a--s,iu!l him. .Several people seizedthe man, hut he struggled violently, ami it was with I in; utmost difficulty that he was restrained. Great exeitment prevailed, and tin-cats of moonlighting and deadly weapons were used. Ultimately a resolution was passed to continue tho colliery for another year A letter was read intimating that the notion taken against the directors would ho heard in tho spring.