THE MILLTOWN BONDS.
AN IRISH PARALLEL TO TICHBORNE, A queer advertisement int tbe English press Ifor a, Secretary a$ a salary of £100 per anmum, puiportring' to.com© irom the Earl oi MUltown, baa attanoted saawwottee. AppHowi'ts for thia valuable po*b axe tor formed (says the writer of tbe 4 - Vanity Fair" artiole ia tba Argus") ttiat if they subscribe A>r acd taka up a oertSfim number of Mffltowa bonds thefar claims- wiH be oonsidered. K> is appawntty a sort of Tiobborne bands Ibusroww.. The Irish Jiaarldom oi Milltown ae probaJWy extinct. At any rata it in claimed by two persons, great grandsons of * former Earl There ar© no estates nor country residenoes wttsudhvna ■. to 'the title. The Leepam (family bave baa a historic reputation for dishevelled extravagaspe, profligacy, aiad imfpectuoiousness for a century. Tbe fttt* I&iad bat one died of ditoi. His successor w*u» a bag, stupid nobleman, -witb no definite ideas on any eubjeot except alodboJio Mquors. It -was tbis ii&iii of Milltsowtn Mr Gladstone om» asked to breakfast in order to explain bis tr&h Lan4 Bill oi 1870, and to get tbe Earl's opdnion as a large apd) Hberal Jsodsowner upon it. The Eail listened in a dull sort oif "way, «nd tben remarked that be didn't case ttmicfh abwrt the et^bjeot, ell hia family .property having gone tp the Jews long ago. Mx Gladstone waa greaitiy shodks ed and surprised. Finally Ida 'Private Secretary was called, in, w$ the wtwt&y pleaded up, Xt im tbat* Sbd ol fttiftfom eiides* aim of the present flßlarl iEUtswaliHttni (ha died In 1877 without (having eoooeßded to the title), whom Gladstone aad Intended to invite to breattfast. As to %e disputed cMwi to the fxteh; wisdom, which the Secretary at a year and the 'buyers <rf Mptawn bond's aire to interest theinetdyes in, it wilt probably never fee ceettttlocl , There fe «o deftefoa "way oi deaiding a dhiam to a Soofebfesh q; Irish p«cu*. ttge. . (PtofoaMy SfojßW are at lsm fcajfr*dojjen supposed peeps wtoo ooold not eftsjbr lish the&r light to the title oonveartipiisEiHy g*v<© to tfcaw (WPpje #he CVwanJ^w of Privileges.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7134, 26 June 1901, Page 2
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351THE MILLTOWN BONDS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7134, 26 June 1901, Page 2
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