Mr W. O’Brien’s Bride.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 487, 9 July 1890, Page 3

Mr W. O’Brien’s Bride.

By his intended marriage with Mdlle. Sophie Raffalovich, Mr William O’Brien, M.P., curiously enough will become closely related to an important Russian official and to an English poet. Mdlle. Raffalovich, who is the daughter of one of the wealthiest merchants of Odessa, has two brothers—M. Arthur Raffalovich and M. Andre Raffalovieb. The former, who, though a Russian by birth, has been educated in France, was some ten or twelve years ago private secretary to Count Schouvalotf, the then Russian Ambassador in London, and now represents in Paris the Russian Ministry of Commerce. He i«, bo.-ides, an eminent writer on political economy, commerce, and finance, and lias contributed many articles on these subjects to various French periodicals and to a leading Paris journal of which he is the financial editor. M, Andre Raffalovich is, like his brother, a Russian subject, but has chosen to make London his home. He has devoted much of his time to the study of English literature, and to such good purpose that he has written a volume of poetry denoting literary ability of no mean order. Mdlle. Raffalovich herself has translated a number of English works into French, especially books on political and social economy.—“ Pall Mall Budget.”