A 10/- PENSION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 8

A 10/- PENSION

FORMER MILLIONAIRE BOTTQMLEY’S PLIGHT LONDON, April 1. Horatio Bollornicy, at 78, is .becoming an old-age pensioner on Ids a week. A representative of tlie Daily Mail found the man who had been twice a millionaire, who had reputedly squandered thousands in gifts and gambling, who had pressed champagne even on the barber who was shaving him, who is notable for his massive fur collars, now frail and deaf, sitting in a warm dressing-gown, which was fastened round his shrunken throat with a. safety-pin, eating cold plumpudding, which he declared was his favorite dish.

“People still remember me as a great and colorful personality,” he said, adding, “one doesn’t have to be pure as snow for the public to love him.

“ Hundredespecially old constituents, inundate mo with letters, telling me their troubles, and how their children are 'progressing. “If Lloyd George, MacDonald, Baldwin, and Botromley were, billed to discuss the silly disarmament business. I would get the most enthusiastic reception and the greatest applause.” Recalling his recruiting work, lie said: “Kitchener told me many times that I alone made his annv. 'Nine, out of ten in Kitchener’s army are Bottomley’s men,’ were his words. “Yes, added Bottomley, his voice dropping .solemnly, “I sent thousands to their graves. “I should like to live on a year or two longer. I haven’t any plans, but I can’t really believe that Mr 11.8. is going to end like this.”