AN ECCENTRIC PEER.
The London correspondent of the Cardiff Times give this bit of mysterious gossip : " All the world is talking of a peer of the realm, a bridegroom of only a few weeks, who since his marriage has broken out in the wildest and most eccentric way. and is behaving himself so strangely^tnat if his conduct continues an asylum must be sought for him. As captain of a corps, he took his men to church, left them at the door and retired to a hotel, there got drunk, became forthwith so generous with his gold that the waiter netted several weeks' earnings by one Sunday morning's work, and finally gave instructions which had to be countermanded by his colonel. Next day he was distributing £5 notes to his hostlers. He makes nothing of ordering a special train if he wants to go a short distance. A pleasant state of things this for a bride. It is to be hoped that she can solace herself with the coronet which was so remorselv forced upon her."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 619, 6 February 1879, Page 2
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175AN ECCENTRIC PEER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 619, 6 February 1879, Page 2
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