THE SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9040, 16 February 1891, Page 2

THE SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

[By Electbic Telegraph.—Copybight.

(Per Peess Association.)

London, February 13,

(Eeoeived February 14, at 10.50 a.m.)

Ifc is stated in connection with the Cumming scandal that the Prince of Wales was watching a game of baccarat as the house of Mrs Arthur Wilson, a well-known social entertainer residing in the West End, when something aroused his suspicion regarding Sir William Cumming's play. He privately communicated his suspicion to the hostess, who requested five of the guests to watch the play, and they declared that the suspicions of His Royal Highess were correct. The libel proceedings instituted by Sir William Cumming are against the five gentlemen who were requested to watch.

[Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cummin?, whose name is mentioned in this affair, is a distinguished officer in the Guards, in the prime of life, having been born July 20, 1848. He succeeded bis father, Sir Alexander Penrose, in 1869. Ho was educated at Eton, and is captain and lieutenant-colonel of the l3t Battalion Scots Guards. He served in the South African war 1879, for which he received the medal with clasp; in the Egyptian campaign 1882 (medal with clasp and bronze star); and in the Camel Corp3 of the Nile expedition, 1884. He is a J.P. and Deputy-lieutenant for County Moray, and a Deputy-lieutenant for County Banff. His seats are at Altyre, near Forces, and Gordunstown, near Elgin ; his town residence being 2 Harriet street, Lowndes square. He belongs to four clubs—the Guards, the j:reat Conservative organisation the Carlton,the social Marlborough and the Tnrf, in which sporting and social intercourse go hand in band.]