WANTED—A WIFE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 383, 7 April 1902, Page 2

WANTED—A WIFE.

LONDON, Feb. B.—Mystery still enshrouds the identity of the Marquis who offers to marry “ a wealthy lady —age and looks immaterial,” on payment of £19,000 to the future husband. But the identity has been narrowed down by curious persons employing the process ol elimination to two holders of that title—the Marquis of Siligo, a bache.or in his seventyeighth year, with nothing but heavily encumbered Irish estates, and the Marquis of Clanricarde, a gay bachelor of seventy, and reputed to be the worst

landlord in Irelandj Clanricarde lends" money under the

name of Sanguinetti, is a noted art connoisseur, is eccentric in dress and habits, is an inveterate cynic, and is said to be a miser. It is generally be-

lieved that he makes his own clothes, aid their extraordinary cut would bear out such a supposition. Those who know him declare that lie is quite capable of this marriage freak, not so much for- the money, though that would be a consideration, as from sardonic delight in bringing contempt on his own order of nobility --by which he is boycotted.

No one imagines, if he is the seeker after marriage in the way outlined, that he would live with the Marchioness so obtained, hut it is the presumption--that he would thus sell her the right to bear the title. The lawyers acting for the mysterious Marquis have bo bona, fide oSer yet 4