HOW HARRET STAUNTON'S AUNT BECAME LADY RIVERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 31, 27 March 1878, Page 2

HOW HARRET STAUNTON'S AUNT BECAME LADY RIVERS.

The " Bedfordshire Times'' says :— " It has hecn stated that the deco-ated H irriot Stannton was- a nieco of tho Into Lady UivorH. Tho. late Lady Hirers wa^ oii«inally of vory liumblo birth. Her father was a fishorman at Brinhton, and she hoiiiß remarkably lipht horded, and fond of ploasuro and Rsiiety, eamo to grief. She then nppenrod in town, whore as Nelly Ffolmos." she wns whal is eallod, "successful in her eareer,"nnil strange to say kopt from intemporato habibs. Sho ,thna saved' n goodly sum of money, andi beinp; n disposition, nho was not l>iolcward at evon< lending a htllo to n favourito bver in- peeuriary distress. "Ono of her favorites— •" llandsonw Itoraco PiM," to wit — was almost always in this position, and' Mistress Nelly relieved his neods tillultimately Horace stood her dobtor to tho tune of £*2,(X0, Of course ho could pay anybody ; but when his fair creditor began to dun him ho hit on ni\' ingenious expedient for squar'ng accounts.' Ho offorad to marry her, and after a little hesitation sho accepted her dobtoi's hand. '1 bus woro tho two-united Nelly knowing absolutely nothing of her husband's prospects, As matters tumod out lo everbody's surprise, Horaco L'itt fell her to tho earldom of Jiivers, and poor Ni^l Holmes suddenly foundherself a real Ivo ca inloss- She never forgot her poor friendn. ' ■ vor; and having hor monoy earofully settled on herself, sho provided for her sister's child, tho poor creature who h«s met with such a sliooking- death at Pongo."