PEER'S SON AND GIBSON GIRL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81872, 23 October 1906, Page 4

PEER'S SON AND GIBSON GIRL.

LORD AIiERDARE CUTS OFI- - ALLOWANCE.

Miss Camille Clifford—the "Gibson GiiT'—and her lover, the \U,n. 11. L. Bruce, are finding the truth of tin; adage that ihe path of true love seldom runs quite smoothly. Lord Aberdarc does not view with any goodwill his eldest son's engagement to Miss Clifford and h,> has shown his disapproval by intimating that if the Hon. H. Bruce pcr-ivs in his attention his allowance of £yn> a year will be cut off.

But this apparently worries Mis Clifford's fiancee a little. lie has ; small private income, and to eke thi out he has made up his mind to worl in the motor garage he has bought while his promised wife continue* lie theatrical career.

As Mr Bruce said to a representative of the "Daily Mail" while hard at work mending a punctured lyre at the garage. "It is 1 who am going to marry Miss Clifford; nut my father. This is one of the Things which a man mart decide upon for himself, and his people have no right to more than advise/' Miss Clifford lias now returned to London from a holiday to Norway. Her fiancee went to meet her a> Hull, and Mr Bruce found it nccessaiy to charter a fspccial lug to go out to meet the steamer in order to evade the host of newspaper men waiting at the dock side to interview ihe "Gibson Girl'' who will one day be a duchess.

Landing at an out-of-the-way pier, the lovers drove swiftly lo an hotel, and subsequently left for London. Miss Clifford says that the marriage will take place on St Valentine's Day next yeai.