EXTRAORDINARY SCANDAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 9

EXTRAORDINARY SCANDAL

IN BIMTISH CIRCLES. Sir Henry Lucy, in his letter to the “fcjyduey coming Herald," writesA story is juac ia»/ current in baciety wmcJi, m>m it#> oneuius taiiu aut.y au<l its jnciamoiis conclusions, would suhice .10 take away rue Ineutli of people ices habitually trained m scanoal. Dome u’CH'iu? ago more siiddemy uied in Paris a .weJi-kuowu member of the Horae of Commons, neir to a gicat peerage, it was said mat he succumbed- to a sudden attack of jmuamoniu. due body nos brought home and interred near his anceslTui home, among general expressions 01" profound grief ac toe sudden cutting ou of a etui young hie, wiuch hud be?ore it pvom.se of. h'gu dtstmetoon it now aravely whispered in drawinguuU tola at dinner tables that thin oxuiunation u, a. pure invention. What •CLiaiiv i.appcneu, one assured,, is taut uio noble lord, haying observed on the part of a friend iougli treatment of a wire recently marmti, remonstrated with him. The- result was -au ang: j scene, followed by a challenge to deadly combat. Accepting it the •clvst in the neighbourhood ot Hans, and at the hrstround tlie friend was shot thiough the heart by the erring bus-band, in order to bath up scandal, the story of death by pneumonia was, by common wl Y eU Lmm-tod tne two > families concerned. concocted, and published. Tins is pretty we Las it stands The oUmax is reacned. b> the X assertion tnat one of the is a member 01 ,me pi totalt Cabinet. £& °c? C^mclT'So tion of a rockier romancer net ei boated above the boldihepus of t U« e-toy. Twice within the past m'.renUv •iskrd bv persons otuexaioe axipaienuj