COUNTESS’ SILK STOCKINGS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 2945, 23 March 1922, Page 2

COUNTESS’ SILK STOCKINGS.

NINE PAIRS FOR £l7. HUSBAND WON’T. PAY. London, March 6. Nine pairs of silk stockings, supplied to Lady Cathcart (against whom a decree nisi was, made on February 24th) were the subject of an action in the Westminster Court, a Bond Street firm suing Earl Cathoart for £l7.

The defence pleaded that Lady Cathcart had no authority to pledge her husband’s credit, the plaintiffs said that the authoiriftyj wasj withdrawn after the stockings were bought.

The Avife’s affidavit declared that she considered the price reasonable. Her allowance was only £BO a month, out of which she had to pay the school fees of her two children. During the hearing Earl Cathcart learned that his tAA o-year-old heir Avas seriously 1 ill, and the hearing Aybs adjourned forthwith.

Countess Cathcart is the widow of Captain de Grey Waiter, of the 4tli Dragoon Guards, who Avas killed in the war. She m ried the Earl in 1919. His solicitors published in August his repudiation of his wife’s credit. In the diA r orce action the Earl of Craven was cited- as co-respondent, and it was stated that his wooden leg was found on a setee in the Countess’s cabin on a steamer bound for Havre.