A BANKRUPT LORD.
The following instance of consistency in precept and practice is related in an English paper :—" You must harden your hearts !" said the Earl of Kimberly, a few months ago, to the Norfolk guardians. It appears that his Lordship does not preach what he does not practice. Last week Lord Wodehouse, son and heir of Earl of Kimberly, was in the Bankruptcy _Court, his debts amounting to £2,654 155., his assets nothing at all. The creditors had trusted the young lord, and then discovered to their dismay that he was, for all practical purposes, as poor as any pauper whom his noble father wishes to immure in a union workhouse. These same creditors, with a shocking disregard of aristocratic feelings, actually dragged Lord Wodehouse into the Bankruptcy Court. Probably' they thought that the noble owner of 11,000 acres would not allow his son to be taken for the paltry £2,600. II so fchey were grievously mistaken. It is no use to urge others to harden their hearts unless they can harden their own. Some men's deeds are better than their theories. Lord Kimberly, however, is consistent. He can say, not only (( Do as I say, but do as I clo !"
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 89, 3 August 1876, Page 2
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202A BANKRUPT LORD. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 89, 3 August 1876, Page 2
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