THE LORD TAKES THE WIDOW.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 255, 15 February 1877, Page 2

THE LORD TAKES THE WIDOW.

There is great excitement in social circles over the announcement of Henry Gordon Lennox's forthcoming marriage to Mrs. Thomas Hicks, the socially famous, beautiful, and wealthy widow of Buffalo city. Her friends said they knew she would make a good match, and her enemies, or rivals, say they doubt the correctness of the engagement as reported. Mrs. Hicks has a home at 10, West Fourteenth-street, but she oscillates between New York and London continually. In both cities she has given entertainments of surpassing magnificence, her 3,000 dollar dinner party to Loz'd Houghton here last season being well remembered. Mrs. Hicks is .of excellent family, very accomplished, and has a cultivated taste for literature and literary people. All the bright stars of the literary world are on her visiting list, and in London royal people are never slow to accept her invitations. 'Twas she who declined to give up her rooms to the Queen of Holland at a London Hotel unless the Queen accepted them at her courtesy. This the exalted lady of the Hague declined to do. Mrs. Hicks declined to vacate on any other terms, and so the Queen went without her favorite rooms and found accommodation elsewhere. Unlike some other wealthy widows, Mrs, Hicks is very generous, liberal, and lavish with her money. She spends 40,000 dollars annually, and the poor get a considerable portion of this amount. Her beauty is really remarkable, and her toilets, all of foreign manufacture, are marvels of elegance, taste, and style. Mrs. Hicks is now in London, and the gossips have it that she will become the wife of Lord Lennox.— New York Herald.