The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-03
CORON[T FOR MISS ASTOR
Rumor That the Duke Of
Roxburghe Will Ask for
Her Hand.
KAISER TO VISIT ENGLAND
Royal Invasions From Ger
many and Italy Promise a
Brilliant Season.


| fiutter of expectation among society
kpeople over the announcement that En-
peror William of Germany has allowed
| the fact to become known that he viii
| pay a visit to England next summer, uR-
! less unforeseen circumstances arise. The
better relations between Great Britain
and Germany, which have recently been
established, have sponged out TO a great
extent the anti Kaiser feeling which
existed in Great Britain since the EN-
peror's notorious despatch to President
Kruger of the Transvaal. congratulating
him upon the suppression of the Jamison
raid, and there is little doubt that he viii
| receive welcome rvalling that of his
! former visits
The despatch referred to was sent about
January q 1895. and read =
II express my sincere congra atulations,
supported by your people and without
| appealing for help to friendly powers you
have succeeded by your own energetic
action against the armed bands which i'm
vaded your country as disturbers of the
peace, and have thus been enabled to re-
store peace and safeguard the indepen-
dence of your country against attacks
! from outside.
On his arrival here, which is timed, ac-
cording to report. for July next, Emperor
William who will remain until the mid
die of August proposes to visit few of
the leading Industrial centre, and. ii IS
added, His Majesty may also cross over
to Ireland. This imperial VISIT coupled
with the fact that the King and Queen
of Italy also harbor the idea of coming
to ENGLAND next year, has opened vista
of brilliant society functions for the Lon
don season of 1899
Queen Victoria is disposed to end the
discussion as to whether she viii pass
the spring on the Riviera. in view of the
French unpleasantness, by definitely en-
gaging apartments at Cimiez from March
/. for five weeks. and It is unders lood
that Her Majesty will return home
through Germany and stay a week or SO
at Coburg, where she will meet Emperor
William, and probably arrange for his re-
turn 10 England.
According TO an announcement made up
on high authority. a marriage has been
arranged between Prince George of
Greece and his cousin Princess Victoria Of
Wales, The latter is year older than
| The recently appointed High Commission
er Of the powers III Crete. The union
would be very popular, both in Great
Britain and Greece, and there are no rea-
sons Of State against the marriage.
which would strengthen the Princes posi-
ton as High Commissioner and among the
Greek royal family it is hoped that the
union will assist him in his ambition to
become Prince of Crete.
The warmth with which two American
heiresses. Miss Ogden Goelet and Miss
Astor, have been welcomed in ducal So
ciety in Scotland this autumn. has given
rise to considerable speculation from a
matrimonial point of view. They have
been feted and petted to an extraordi-
nary degree. The Buccleugh and Rox-
burghe families have both been paying
them noticeable attention. and it seems
pretty well understood that the young
Duke of Roxburghe will ask for Miss
Astor's hand The Duke, who is the
eighth Of his line, was born in 1876, and
succeeded his father in 1892. His name is
! Henry John Innes- -Ker and he is lieu
tenant in the Royal Horse Guards Miss
Astor is staying at Floors Castle, Kelso,
Roxburgshire, the ancestral home of the
Roxburghes, on the border, for the past
week, and it is not unlikely that she will
make her debut at Court as a Peeress.
The Duke of Roxburghe's two uncles,
uncle-irl-law and cousin all married AM
erican girls.
Mr. Henry White, the United States
Charge d d'Affaires and Mrs. White are
entertaining weekend party at their
country palace, Wilton Park, near Bea-
eonsfeld, including Lord and Lady Cur
zon of Kedleston and General Lord
kitchener of Khartoum.
Lady Calrzon has prepared her vice-re-
gal wardrobe for her Indian home She
passed "a week in Paris selecting dresses
Her orders to the Worth house alone
reached S15.G 600.
Countess Casa Valonica's bazaar at
Downshire House, in aid of the Spanish
sufferers by the war, has been bril-
liant success. 1t was opened by Princess
Henry Of Battenburg and a dazzling ar
ray Of duchesses and countesses kept
the stalls The Princess herself did
brisk trade in Spanish guitars, fans, etc,
and she also bought number of arti-
cies. including a water color by Garcia
Mercia, representing a Spanish gypsy, sn
behalf of the queen. Several contribu-
tons were presented by the Pope, the
oueen-Regent of Spain, ex-Queen Isabel
Of Spain, the Queen of Servia, and Prin-
cess Ludwig of Bavaria. They fetched
high prices.
The young king of Spain has Just had a
very pleasant windfall i'm the shape OF
a legacy of 1900, coo pesetas, bequeathed to /
him BY an old gentleman named solers
who had a close though unacknowledged
relationship to the King, being the nat-
ural son of Ferdinand VIM and great
uncle Of King Alfonso. The testator's re-
latives opposed the will, but the Queen
Regent, as her sons next friend, sup
ported ii. and the suit has now been de-
cfeed In favor of the King
a newspaper Of Portsmouth, Engw
which cabled to Secretary Long asking
for definite information regarding the cur
rent report that an American squadron
Is to visit Portsmouth, received a. reply
Yesterday in which the Secretary said;
II have to say at present that the Date
Of the formation Of European squadron /
is undecided. When his action Is taken /
ii viii be made public. Thanking you
for your assurance Of hearty welcome
10 The United States fleet etc.s efc,,
People here deduce from this reply that |
an American squadron viii be sent to |
Europe ald that Portsmouth = v " Pc I