TO MARRY A NOBLEMAN AN IMPECUNIOUS PRINCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 406, 28 September 1889, Page 5

TO MARRY A NOBLEMAN AN IMPECUNIOUS PRINCE.

Another impecunious foreigner (observes an American paper by the last mail) has captured an American heiress. Miss Huntington, daughter 01 (Jollis P. Huntington of Southern Pacific fame, ia engaged to marry Prince Hatzfeldt. Miss Huntington had been travelling in Spain with Mrs John Sherwood, the writer. While there she met the Count, who professed to be captivated. He followed her about for a long time, proposed, and was accepted. The acceptance of his offer and the fact that the father approves of the match are very significant, for Hatzfeldt is a comparatively poor man. Prince Hatzfeldt is a cousin of Count Hatzfeldt, the German Ambassador to London, who likewise married an American girl, Miss Moulton, who lived in Paris when she was married. Prince Hatzfeldt, who is going to marry Miss Huntington, used to be one of the Secretaries of the Legation. He is tall, with a fair face, and is well known and generally considered a capital fellow. His set have nothing against him but a chronic tendency to contract debts with no immediate prospect of payment. He affected the turf, but did not have money enough to cut much of a figure. He has cultivated the acquaintance of American girls .at Monte Carlo, Baden, Homburg, and •all the other continental resorts, but has been assiduous in his attentions to Miss Huntington. Some of the Prince's friends ■estimate his debts to be at least four millions, which, of course, will be wiped oub when he is married. Prince Francis Edmund Joseph Gabriel vit of Hatz-feldt-Werdenburg, was born on June l'stfh, 1853. The Hatzfeldt family aro Catholics, and their Chateau Schoenstein is in the Coblence district. The father of the prospective groom was not a prince until 1870, when he was so dignified.'