The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-03

~ ia MARoulsE DE TONrESoY.

p ING GEORGE Is dispensing win
me services Of the only ono cs
~ his gentlemen in waiting who is
member or the home rule party,
namely. Captain the Hon. Otwny Soy
nour Cuiio. only brother and next heir
70 the Earl or Desart. whose daughter.
william BnYard Cutting, or New York
JUST IN the same way as Captain Cuffc'4
maintenance az a member of the royal
lt9lusGhold by Edward vi was constru-
Cd as an indication OF sympathy with
t. retirement be INTERPRETED as a
lack OF good VIII on tho part Of King
George for the Nationalist
Captain Cuffe three s.ears ago WAS
elected Mayor OF Kilkenny py the I'M
animous vote Of the corporation. ali OF
president OF the Local pranch OF the
Gaelic League. and is taking n leading
RfFt III the cultivation OF tobacco in
ciuS IN TACT the managing
director OF q tobacco growing company
IN which his widowed sister in-laW, the
!poWager countess Of Desar,, is ono OF
tAe principal Stockholders. This DoH,a-
zer Countess Desart is daughter anu
iiciress OF the late Henry Bischonsheim,
the wei known London nnancier. ana
,sgf % ne London Daily News"
a"i4. !!ine ago the town Of Kilkenny
Notcu ner its freedom. in recognition
OF all tho good she had done for Tho MO-
PIE IN the district this being the first
th hss I o. q woman or OF a member Of
=
WITH the freedom Of a city or tow,I II.
the Emerald Isle
me present Lord Dcsart is now one
Of the British members of tho intorr.-
tIonai court OF arbitration at Tho
HAgue. and was for many years public
nn r,Se ,Ic reioices in the alto
Eether appalling Christian name OF
Astmondishain. which was borne by the
iather OF the first Lord Desart, and
a fds by the latter,s maternal grand
u = t l, Col Agmondisham Muschamp.
non, RI
whom he inherited 81 considerable
amount OF property. The Cures ori-
s,ihaliy hailed from Somersetshire, but
since Tudor times have been settled IN
ireland Hugh Cuffe receiving a grant
OF 5000 acres in County Cork from
queen Elizabeth. The honors OF Lord
'e sart are all Irish. and do not carry
with them any seat in the House OF
Lords
The Secretary Of state for War has
don Official Gazette" an announccnient
TO the, effect that although the myster-
lows dlsappearance and continued alb
keith, of the Ninth Lancers, had left,hc
military authorities no alternative but
TO remove him from The army,
yet that this step on their part did no,
imply any reflection on the character.
or good name Of the young officer This
IS. equivalent to an intimation that the
WAR Department does not look upon
liitti III tic tlSH OIL q OeSeftGi, and that
1t shares the fear of his parents that
some harm may have come to him.
Despite all the efforts Of Sir Thomas
ra r. Ilesketh ,i And q his American
daughter Of the late United States
Senator sharon. OF Nevada and not
WithstaEding all the money which they
nave spent in instituting, through the
regular police and through private de-
tectiYc agents, search for him in all
parts OF the world. especially here in
America, yet nothing Whatsoever has
been heard OF him since reaching Dub
lin, on the Holyhead mall steamer. on
the morning of October so last.
He has been wrongly confused with
his elder brother Thomas, who is mar
ricd 10 Miss Florence breckenridge,
daughter Of Mrs. Frederick w Sharon,
OF San Francisco by her former mar
keith is sort of a cousin OF her hus-
hand. though no blood relation. Thomas
Ecrmor lfesketh was formerly 81 sub
altern of the Royal House Guards. but
might make fuller use Of his remark
able faculty for mechanics a subject
on which he has become a lecturer ut
the University of Oxford.
King George. who. as long as he, was
heir apparent to the throne. filled the
office of trustee of the British Museum
Ian Office which was likewise held BY
his father before him during the last
thirty eight years Of Queen victoria's
relgn-has now surrendered it to Sir
Edward Grey. Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. He has slgnalizcd
! his Withdrawal from the board bv
loaning to the trustees Of the British
wonderfully valuable musical library
hitherto preserved at buckingham
20 laHa II includes among other trca-