Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-09-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE SOCIETY PAPERS.  (From the World.)  The Duchess of Connaught is looking very mudt the better for her cure at Aix-les-Bains. Ever since her return from India she has suffered from rheumatism, and felt the cold of last winter very keenly. Princess Maud of Wales paid her a short visit from Vichy during her stay. • Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are expected by the King Of the Belgians for a week's visit at the Chlilet Royal, Ostend, on the 2nl proximo. A fortnight later they set out for Australia. Lord and Lady Salisbury, who have been residing during the fast six weeks at their villa at Puys, near Dieppe (which is in the market), are going shortly to Beaulieu, near Nice, to pass a month at their new chateau there, which is now ready for occupation. They will return to Hatfield for the winter at the end of October.  Lord Northesk's death has caused much regret. He had always, from his youth, been delicate, and suffered when young from pulmonary weakness, and his only sister died of consumption. His death was sudden at the end, for he ruptured a blood-vessel only a few hours before he died. He was a man of very wide scientific and antiquarian pursuits, and had a very fine collection of fossils and antiquities, which he only a short time ago presented to the Edinburgh Museum. His place in Scotland, near Arbroath, was one of the oldest and most picturesque of Scotch houses, and he had recently restored it. Lord Northesk left instructions that his body was to be cremated.  The case of Mrs. Melville is a hard one. It seem 3 that, although her husband had 21 years' service to his credit when murdered in Manipur, he was still an Assistant Superintendent. Under these circumstances she was entitled to no pension, but the Government of India has promised her £lOO a year and £lB for each of her two boys. In the face of Mrs. Quinton's £6OO per annum this is regarded as very meagre and unsatisfactory, especially whork it is considered that a timely warning of what was going on would have saved Mr. Melville's life.  Lord Kilmarnock has just received from Mr. J. T. Morgan of the "Old English Bank," Brussels, the bullet which fell from the skull of his great-uncle, James Lord Hay, when the remains of the latter were disinterred at Quatre Bras in July 1890. together with some buttons and portions of gold braid which were found in the grave. These relics are to be carefully placed in a casket and preserved at Stains Castle, which might at the present moment have belonged to Lord Saltoun's aide-de-camp or his children, if it had not been for the disaster caused by the fatal bullet in question. Burke and Lodge both describe Lord Hay as dying at Waterloo on June 18th, 1815. As a matter of fact, he left the Duchess of Richmond's ball in the small hours of June 16th, and fell on the same afternoon at Quatre Bras while riding by Lord Saltoun's side. Although not 19 at the time, he had been already two years in the Guards. His sister, Lady Margaret Lushington, is still living.  I hear that there is every probability of Lord Vivian, G.C.M.G., who, with Lady Vivian,is at the present moment a guest of Count Ademar d'Oultremont at Château Berliere, near Atli, succeeding Sir Augustus Paget at Vienna. Sir Augustus's retirement is now imminent,for he celebrated only a few days ago his diplomatic jubilee. Sir Augustus Paget has witnessed during his long career 13 changes of Ministry, and worked under no fewer than 10 Foreign Secretaries. Lord Vivian's name has been for some time first on the "promotion list" of the Foreign Office. For another year, at least, the Norfolk Broads are safe. In consequence of the present agitation the riparian owners have not deemed it expedient to stop a single boat.