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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1881, Page 2

One of the wealthiest and most eccentric nobleman in Europe, Prince . Joseph Sulkbwski, Duke of Bielitz, arrived at Copenhagen recently, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in headhunting. He was accompanied by a numerous suite, consisting of a highlysalaried lady companion, a maitre de obapelle, a reader, a aecretary, a body-surgeon, a valet! de chambre, two running footmen, an enormous mastiff, a huge ourangoutang, two valuable • parrots, and several cagefulls of singing birds; One favorite member of his household', a Bengal tiger, he had been compelled to leave behind at Hamburgh, as the; steam-boat authorities respectfully, but posi-i tively declined to convey that princely retainer across the seas. Prince Sulskowski's personal habits, as discribed in a letter from Copenhagen, are somewhat out of the common. He rises at 1 p.m., breakfasts an hour inter, and listens to musical selections, performed by the members of his household, until seven. From seven to eight he takes a nap, which is followed by more chambermusic antil one o'clock a.m,.his regular; dinner-hour. Having dined siimptously, he; sallies out on foot, accompanied by his! aecretary, and walks about. J the to wri until! five, when he returnsto his hotel and goes to' bed. - ■ . • i A sum of verynearly £400 was subscribed! by the parishioners on Sunday week to pay off the existing debt on the Roman Catholic. Church at Reefton. . ■ i Some • Victorian capitalists tiaye ; offered! £1000 for one-fourth interest in the-FJy! claim, Upper Temora,. four <meo ? 8 ground ;i but the dfferwas refused^ ■■''■ ; - :