SIR GARNET WOLSELEY REFUSED
Much is written every year about the annual new'beauty of Saratoga. . This year it has' settle'! fou the biggest Woman itv the village, but In a quiet, y social way there is'no lady more ad-,, mired; than Mrs William Connor, formerly Ada Webb, of the Webb sisters. In the height’ of her popularity and archness she married Mr Connor, and at his request renounced the stage for ever. She could easily-have anticipated the fortune Lotta has made, and was at that time unrivalled in The f v grandfather of Mrs Connor was an English banker, and her. family connections are the best on the stage. About the close of "out civil war she was making a tour in Canada, when SirGamet Wolseley, then the plain colonel of ithe regiment, made her acquaintance, and " with her mother’s consent, proposed‘to her. He was a kind man, but plain and full of wounds, and she decided to refuse him. They parted friends, and his correspondence, still in her hands, ia a pretty sou venir in the life of Othello’s successor, the present Governor- of Cyprus and hero of Cooraassie. •
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Kumara Times, Issue 668, 18 November 1878, Page 2
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