LORD AND LADY DUNLO.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 951, 23 May 1890, Page 9

LORD AND LADY DUNLO.

The London correspondent of the Advertiser writes as follows :—Proceedings for divorce are being instituted on behalf of Lord Dunlo still, despite reports to contrary abroad, against the music hall singer whq bears his name. The co-re-spondent ia - MY Isidore Emmanuel Wertheimer, who, it will be remembered, had t}ie honour of providing for Miss; Belle Bilton’s modest wants . for some time before she met young Dunlo. Wertheimer was so infatuated with the lady that his parents packed him off to America, where some months.later he heard of her marriage to Dunlo.' Without waiting a moment Wertheimer set off home, arriving on the vary day Lord Dunlo sailed for Australis. While the Viscount was shedding a parting tear with his friends on board the Lusitania his disconsolate >rass . wife was cracking a bottle of Da Lassey with that returned prodigal, Wertheimer.. Subsequently the Viscountess” drove Wertheimer to Kempton, and was seen about with him, though always in company with “sister Flo.” By this time Miss Bilton has probably come to the conclusion that there is not much beyond a good advertisement to be got out of her courtesy title. The Clancartys, on dit, gave out that their son married Miss Bilton in ignorance that she was already the mother of three children, and that on ascertaining that interesting fact he authorised them to have the fair lady carefully watched. This, however, is not quite accurate. Lord Dunlo changes his mind on the average about three times a day concerning his wife. In either Melbourne or Auckland his Lordship signed a paper agreeing to divorce his wife on proper evidence. A few hours later, however, he wrote to “ Darling Belle,” avowing that he signed the document in question when “ squiffy,” whatever that may mean, and declaring that he had no intention of parting with her. This is Dunlo all over. A. few days before his marriage with Belle Bilton the young man professed to be in a great state of mind about a compromising letter he had written to the lady, and consulted Mr Augustus Moore as to the best way of recovering it. Mr Moore gave him admirable advice, and with considerable difficulty the epistle was got back and (lestroytd. Two days later Dunlo came hounding into the Cafd Royal at lunch time, and seeing Moore and party there walked up and joined them. The! conversation turned on racing till Dunlo remarked, quite parenthetically, and as ff it were no particular consequence, that he had just finished

marrying Belle Bilton. A volley of broad chaff followed, for, of course, none of the party believed him. When, however, the "Viscount went on fo detail particulars concerning the ceremony at the Registrar’s, the truth came home to Moore and company, and they were silent.