A FORTUNATE AMATEUR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1611, 16 July 1887, Page 3

A FORTUNATE AMATEUR.

Colonel Hughes-Hallet is the only mao on record who has won fortune and fame by amateur aotlng and nothing else. An a slim aed handsome horse artillery man. he played ''young lovers" In garrison theatricals, and on one of these occasions attracted the admiration of a rich and lovely widow, Lady Salwyn, widow of a Lord Justice of Appeal, and sister-in-law of the Martyred Polynesian bishop. They married, but In a few years their nnion was distolved by death, and the beau sabreur found himself In the strange petition of father to four young families. The lady had originally married a widower with a family, the Rev Dr Dupr*, rector of Richmond. She and he had a family ; and after his death she married Lord Justice Selwyn, by whom she had another family ; and then she married HugbesHallet, by when »he had a third family, hi addition to the atep-ohlldren of her original family. The greatly afflicted widower, however, managed to shunt the whole four families on to other relations, and, m course of time, his fine aoting and handsome person won him a seoocd wife — this time an Amorlcan helresß of vast wealth and mature charms; and by th« Aid of her money, and the elooutionary powers developed on the amateur stage, ho won a seat m the House for Rochester, and has proved himself a speaker of the first quality. Hii position from the first time has been exceptional, and he Is, at this moment, the hero of the House — not only as the bear-leader of Buffalo Bill" but as the saviour of the Government, who but for his 40 minutes vpln of impromptu eloquence would have been defeated In their first division m Committee on the Coercion Bill.