A LORD’S DOINGS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1246, 30 September 1884, Page 3

A LORD’S DOINGS.

Archibald horbes writes to ooulti Australia that Lord Shrewsbury is doing ridiculously eccentric things just now. He is collecting money for a hospital. This is not the eccentricity, which lies in the mode which he has chosen for obtaining donations. A groom in full livery, leather top boots, and with a cockade in his hat, plays a barrel-organ up and down quiet respectable suburban streets ; while his lordship, dressed as if he were going into the Park, knocks at door after door, and pohtely rcQues's donations for the good cause, in the interest of which he, the premier earl of England, is dancing attendance on a barrel organ. This young man is but 24 years of age, but he has had his experiences. While yet a minor he fell madly in love with Mrs Langtry. His female relatives apprehended that Mrs Langtry might be enticed by a coronet and a great rent roll into bearing the odium of a divorce suit, and begged of a country neighbor, a Mrs Monday, in whom they had implicit confidence, to lay herself out to alienate the young nobleman from his devotion to the “Jersey Lily.” Mrs Munday undertook the good office in a pure friendly manner. She was ten years older than the lad, and could feel towards him as if she were his elder sister. But one day his lordship n~d Mrs Munday duly eloped together, and the lady is now Countess of Shrewsbury.