ARISTOCRATIC SCANDLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 259, 20 April 1880, Page 2

ARISTOCRATIC SCANDLES.

What a delightful scandal in high h'to the following paragraph—quoted from one of the first of English "society" journals—would furnish a text for, if the " true inwardness" of the facta could bo mude public. The journal in question is reviewing the latest edition of the " Snobs' Biblo,"' Burke's Peerage, and complains that "no mention is made of the divoioe of Colonel Charles Norton, the heir presumptive to the peerage of Grantley, from his wife ; of that lady's subsequent marriage to Lord Grantly, the present holder of that peerage ; or of the birth *. of a daughter to his Lordship within a day or two after his wedding. Yet these ove.nts took place early last November, and the preface to this peerage is dated Bth December, 1879." Great guns ! What a bonanza certain of our dailies woutd have found in this if Nob Hill, instead of the British peerage, had possessed such an awkward family " situation." Talking of" Peerages," however, it seems that a now compiler of tnat sort ; of literature, one Poster, has arisen who is liuely to cause a sensation, Irom the fact that he—according to another " society" journal—''discards the polite fiction* current in genealogy, and seems to take a positive delight in dragging tho skeleton out of the cupboard. A baronet who married on June 5, 1872, has the following comment attached to the birth of hits son and heir : , ' Registerel Septembor 9, 1872, as /» having been bora on the preceding sth June' ; whilst the daughter of an i-niinent Judge, who married a relation uf ihoJn«lg<-, who married a relation of of the Duke of Devonshire, has the wor'» daujflifer in invi-ri.i-< ! eoniifust, t«- c °" .■.Hriitiuii l« lh«-"frri t!iut Ur •"' li ' r , 1S i -ti „ ,!.,. >««./> unmarried. dca ribeti on -