Henry's Debts.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 152, 9 July 1901, Page 3

Henry's Debts.

LOVE HAS NOTHING TO PO WITH BUSINESS AFFAIRS.”

Paris. May 11

A usually well-informed paper here publishes the following, ascribed to an officer of the Dutch court : “ There is grave trouble in the Royal household of Holland. Queen Wilhelniina, against- the advice of her mother, resists all attempts on the part of her husband to get at her money to pay the large debts lie incurred before his marriage.

“ Pespite the efforts of the unique mother-in-law to preserve the courtly dignity of the young couple by inducing the Queen to* yield to Prince Henry's demand and avoid further quarrelling, several rounds of very bitter arguments already have taken place before the ladies and gentlemen of honor in attendance. The Royal Consort, like his father, and especially' like his uncle, who was declared a bankrupt twenty yeaiN ago. alwavs has been a spendthrift. Before going to join his fiancee at Hetloo Castle, he signed promises to his creditors, syndicated under the leadership of moneylender Frank Furtonmein, agreeing to pay a third of the total six days after his marriage. “ After repeated and fruitless demands, the syndicate's leader went to The Hague, and addressed a personal appeal to the Queen, with her husband's authorisation, but Wilhelmina, instead of paying, resented the Prince's conduct in this matter. She entered into a terrible rage, finally charging her husband with a ruse, and with” dissembling. Her mother has pleaded vainly every day since, but Wilhelmina says* 1 love has nothing to do with business affairs, and the Queen of Holland will refuse to give a cent.’ ”

The most gruesome farce for alleged saving of life from fire is the placing of a knotted rope in each bedroom, to be used by the inmate in case of his being eomp*elled to effect his exit from the window. A sailor or an athlete no doubt could do so, provided the flames were not pouring out of {he window, hut it is tain that neither elderly men nor timid women could make any use of such an absurb fire escape as a knotted rope.— Wanganui Herald,