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A ROMANY ROMANCE.

A Ruda-Pesth correspondent of the London Graphic, writing in March, says :. — In aristocratic circles here there is only one topic of conversation, the March madness of the Countess Wilhelmine Festetich£ whose engagement to Nyari Rudi, a gipsy and the leader of & band of musicians, ihas just been made [public. Nyari -Is a good-looking fellow enough, dresses.woll, and has considerable musical talent. He is 28 years of age and passed through the Buda-Pesth Conservatoire before unding a billet as bandmaster in a local restaurant. His fiancee' is a person of brilliant parts and speaks five languages fluently. A great deal of nonsense pis appeared in the press as regards Her immense fortune. As a matter of fact, she owns nothing during the lifetime of her father, though at his decease she will inherit about £8000. Her gipsy lover was offered a' large surft I " •* He family solicitor to renounce his rretv laions to the lady, but he refused. He is marrying her for love, he says, and, for the rest he declares that he can earn enough to maintain hdr. Since her father, Count Paul Festetich, married a Second time the countess has lived -with her aunt at Munich, and, while there, she made the acquaintance of Co\int Sigmund Spretti-, and in due_course became engaged to him. With him sho attended the concerts which t*« gipsy musician was giving at Munich, utA a month ago she startled her family by announcing that she Joyed her. -prospective bridegroom no longer, and that the fascinations of Nyari ;had won her heart, A family council was called spd all means wero tried to make the countess change her mind, but in. vain.,, F.inally, she fled to the gipsy's.noir.e, whore she will rdmain »"til the wadding in a fortnight's time. [Presumably, the countess is the person referred to in a recent cable as having been disinherited by her father, and being, therefore, penniless.]

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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1350, 12 June 1907, Page 3

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A ROMANY ROMANCE. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1350, 12 June 1907, Page 3

A ROMANY ROMANCE. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1350, 12 June 1907, Page 3