A Novel Competition
A society journal in London recently invited its readers to compete for what is entitled "The Portland Stakes: who will have the Duke ? " The object in view was to obtain from the road era of the paper a number of names of ladies from whom the Duke of Portland would be likely to select a wife. It was announced that a great great many names had been received by the editor, and that the list would be published in the edition of September 8. The editor's intention did riot, it ?eems, become known to the Duk< until a day or two before, when hi.his Grace chartered a special to Lon don to consult his solicitors upon the
■subject. TJae immediate result of '$*&> -conference was the wttrfibg >otf expoefculatory letters to the ..proprietors and printers of the journal, and <tke -serving upon each, and all of them, of legal notices requiring tken te- desist ifroia the intended {publication, of the list e£ ladies* proceedings for libel being threatened in the event of the names fbeing published. Umder tiae -circumeJances the editor undertook not to .publish the Kst ia
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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190A Novel Competition Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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