NEW ZEALAND COMPLAMENTED.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1925, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND COMPLAMENTED.

! I .ON DON. Oi-t. iVj. llh- Dail\ lelegraph's" <><> ll<* \*u ror-re-pondent reports the League’s dates Commission highly complimented Nee. /.ealand on the wry satisfactory administration of Samoa, the (’resident declaring the report upon tin's subject model both in .style and substance. SKAFIKLI) ESTATE. LONDON', Oetolter 38. Ihe title of the nineteen-year-old Countess of Seafield. a Peeress in her oun right. is lieing challenged at the Court ot Sessions. Edinburgh. by .\lexdei- Orant. a retired tutor, aged 70. He declare, he i- the son of the seventh Karl of Seafield, whereas the Countess is the only child of the eleventh Earl. Cram alleges the .seventh Kail, u hen discount l.eidhaven, in Chi. married hy verbal contract aboard a sailing vessel, Caroline Stuart, youngest daughter, of the eleventh | l.ord Hlantyre. l-ecauso she was about ! to become a mother. She was carried j ashore on the hack of a seaman and) teave birth to a child the same night, j He (Orant) was that child. The mar-! Cage was later celebrated in London, j but every effort was made to hide the J original birth. The baby was handed ' to a gardener at Xordon Castle, and ! given a university education, and mom ev was provided for his foster parents. !