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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 41, 8 February 1884, Page 21

Edmund Tates vouches for the truth of the following story concerning a noble lord who has honored America with his august presence :— Lord H.. the identical Irish peer who was thrown into a state of irrepressible indignation when, by an accident, his wife was sent down after some laiy of lower rank at a Brighton dinner party and exclaimel excitedly, tothe consternation of the company, " Lady H. must have her rights !" assumed on the Adriatic airs sach as all the Queen s sons put together never gave themselves in their lives. " I want a bath by eight," ' his lordship said imperiously to the barber. "You can t have it, sir ; it is engaged." « But I mast have it " said this magnifico of the peerage of Ireland. "Do you know who lam ?" "No, sir." "I am Lord H." "Ab, indeed," pleasantly rejoined the barber ; glad to make your acquaintance, I'm sure "; and in a trice the barber gripped the lordly paw and vigorously shook the same, to the ecstasy of the bystanders and the ineffable disgust of the shaken