ILMA DE MURSKA.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 568, 13 April 1876, Page 3

ILMA DE MURSKA.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, writing of lima de Murska's mairiage with Alfred Anderson, and the subsequent death of the latter, says:—"The story ia a very wretched one, and it is rather too soon to tell it yet. It is understood, however, that legal proceedings have been instituted, which will make it public in a few days. The marriage was one of mere romantic affection on the part of the lady, bat it hns proved one of those terrible blunders which it is the privilege of those to commit who have passed the period of youth and inexperience, when mistakes of affection are easily pardoned. It gave her nothing but a husband broken down in health and dving of a mortal ailment. It gave him as a wife a gifted woman who had reaped a golden harvest by the exercise of her wondrous artistic talents in these colonies. Mr Anderson, it seems, was not backward in asserting his claim to the ownership of this harvest, and got possession of as much of it as possible as soon as he could. When his disease became serious", and a fatel termination was threatened, he was removed to the house of his parents in Melbourne, and his wife was only allowed to see him at rare intervals—indeed, hardly at all. It is understood that Mr Anderson—who, it may be incidentally mentioned, was a Jew —has left a will devising his wife's property as his own, and leaving it to his own family. One does not care to characterise the transaction till all the facts are before the public, which they soon will be, as Mdlle lima de Murska (to preserve the better known and the better name) has given notice of application for letters of administration. The particulars will probably be all brought out when the case cornea before the Court ; but, as it is now stated colloquially, it is a mercenary, sordid, and miserable affair, and no one can help sympathising with the great artiste who has been thus bought and sold. And what a grim irony is imparted to the wretched story by the death of one of the chief actors just as his triumph is secured and his bargain is complete."