THE COLONEL HUGHESHALLETT CASE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1679, 5 October 1887, Page 2

THE COLONEL HUGHESHALLETT CASE

In connection with the charges reoently brought against Colonel Hughea-Hallett, MF, by the "Pall Mall Gazstte," the following extract from the writer of Social Gossip from Home m the " Melbourne Argus," dated Jane 18, will be of interest ; —'•Colonel Hughes-Hallett ia the only man on record who has won fortune and fame by amateur acting and nothing else. As a slim and haadnome hone artillery man, he played ' young lovera Mn garrison theatricals, and on one of these oocaaiom attracted the admiration of a rich and lovely widow. Lady Selwyn, widow of a Lord Justice of Appeal. They married, but m a few years their union was dissolved by death, and the beau sabreur found himself m the si range position of father t > foar youcg families. The lady had originally married a widower with • family, the Rev. Dr Daprs, vector 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 HughesHallett, by whom she had a third family ia addition to the step-children of her original family. The greatly afflicted widower, however, managed to Bhunt the whole four families on to other relations, and iv oourse of time his fine acting and handsome person won him a second wife — this time an American heiress of vast wealth and mature charms, and by the aid of her money and his own elocationary powers, developed on the amatear stage, he won a seat ia tie House for Rochester, and has proved himself a speaker of the firat quality. Ilia position from the first has been exceptional, and he is At this moment the hero of the House, not only »a the bearleader of Baffalo Bill, but as the Baviour of tbe Government — who, but for a4O-mlnute's spin of impromptu aloquenoe would have beau defeated m he;c first division, lv committee, on the Coercion Bill,"