Strange Change of Fotune.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 3

Strange Change of Fotune.

An English writer says t '"I do nob think that our parliamentary experience often presents a more startling change ofcircuinstances than that which has come upon Mr William Copeland Borlase. In June last year he was not only a member of Parliament,' but also a member of the Govern* ment, with £1,200 a year from the State' He was member of some of the best dining clubs in all London, had the personal friendship of the Prime Minister of the day, and was popular in every society j he was Fellow of ohe of the learned societies, and was presenting libraries ' td public institutions. His antiquities exhibited at South Kensington were being admired by the multitude. He was an irresistible candidate for his native constituency, and all his friends were talking of his future brilliant careety A bleak wind blows'; the figure falls ffom the pedestal ; and. yesterday Mr Borlasehad to plead before the .Bankruptcy Court that he could hot attend because, being in Ireland, he could not raise the few shillings; necessary for his transport to London.' The fall is terrible, from being a Ministeriof the Crown to being absolutely destitute, And it is all the more terrible, since there were no stages. * Everything occurred within a very few months. It was sudden aid absolute, though, X hope, not an irremediable collapse."