MATCH-MAKING IN HIGH LIFE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 19 June 1911, Page 6

MATCH-MAKING IN HIGH LIFE

-The matrimonial agency finds its sphere of influence as rule among 1 people who do not take a high.jSbstv tiofltt In " the social, but ivt America, at any, uate-, 'It Ist thought there i$ x&ov& for arjnorje pretentiousJ Undertaking. ■ Thfe is the opinion of Miss Yoma- Bleyer,, who has established in New York an agency "for the purpose of bringing about marriages between American heiresses and Austrian noblemen." Miss Bleyer expects that a large number of heiresses will visit London this year to see the Coronation and perhaps to find husbands, and ( she intends to transfer her agency 'to British soil during the busy season. She believes it will be easier to arrange meetings between her titled clients and the daught-ers of American millionaires in London than it would be in New York. Speaking of her proposed visit ■to the Isew York representative of a London journal, : , she assured him; tha^ her business wits a very seledt one. "I .have no husbands," she said, "for girls whose only claim to gentility is Wealth. They must be well-bred and of sufficient culture to be able: to fill the station in which their alliance with my noblemen, will place them." She added that a titled Austrian officer for whom she had tried recently, to arrange a marriage had.,been discouraged because all the heiresses he had met in New York an appearance of distinction,, and some of them were sadljr wanting in knowledge of table etiquette.' Miss Bleyer cited some of the "cases" she had ion her books. ; One was a young' j officer, of the Austrian White" Dra,- ---; goons, a member of an old family and the possessor of everything except wealth. A Bohemian Count, who had a small fortune, was looking for a rich wife who oould help him to maintain two family castles. His ability to speak three languages appeared to be considered quite a valuable asset in the matrimonial market. Another eligible nobleman was an officer ot the Landwehr Infanterie, "perhaps a little too stout, but very cultured." Miss Bleyer is hardly likely nowadays to find many American girls who are I willing to exchange their riches for the culture of these embarrassed foreigners.

Tn 'the King Country there is a "No Man's Land," a sort of poachers' paradise*, where v small area, comprising Kakahi. Mananui, and Peria.ka, is not w.ithin the jurisdiction of any acclimatisation society. Recently a man was prosecuted by the police fov unlicensed, shooting within that- area, but the case failed. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society did; not realise the position till Tuesday night, when a. letter from the Inspector of Police enlightened them. It was decided to take steps, at once to "rope in" the bit of land.

tetitibi