Lord Shrewsbury.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 241, 8 September 1884, Page 2

Lord Shrewsbury.

Archibald Forbes writes to South Australia that Lord Shrewsbury is doing ridiculously eccentricit things just now. He is collecting money for a hospital. This is nob the eccentricity, which- lies m the mode which he has chosen for obtaining donation*. A groom iv full livery, leather top boot I*,1 *, and with a cockade m his hat, plays a barrel organ up and down quiet respectable suburban streets ; while his lordship, dressed as if he were going into the Park, at door after door, and politely requests donations for this good cause, m the interest of which he, the premier earl of England, is dancing attendance on a barrel organ. This young ., man is but 24 years of age, but he has had his experiences. While yet a minor be fell madly m love with Mrs Langtry. His female relatives appiehended that Mrs Langtry might be enticed by a coronet and a great reut roll into bearing the odium of a divorce suit, and begged of a* country neighbour, a Mrs Munday, m whom they had implicit confidence, to lay herself out to alienate the young nobleman from his devotion to the * { Jersey Lily." Mrs Munday undertook the good office m a purely friendly manner. She was ten yearn older than the lad, and could feel towards him as if sho were his elder sister. But one day his lordship and Mrs" Munday duly eloped together, and the lady is now Countess of Shrewsbury.