A SPRIG OP NOBILITY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2030, 8 April 1890, Page 3

A SPRIG OP NOBILITY.

Lord Dunlo, the eldest son of the Earl of Clancarty, who married Miss Belle Bilton, a London music-hall singer, and was shipped out to the colonies, has been having a good time according to his ®wn standard of what constitutes that delightful experience. The following letter addressed to Augustus Moore, and published m the Hawk, is of interest; “ Auckland, Oct. 18,1889. I scrawl you a line to let you know that I am still alive. This is a grand country ; so is Australia, I have had a rare good time since I left England. We had exactly six weeks’ voyage till we landed at Adelaide, South Australia. I was most infernally sick of the Lusitania by then. We stopped at G-ibraltar, Naples, Port Said, and Colombo on our way out, I stopped ten days at Adelaide, aud put up at the club there as an honorary member! They put me up at every club in the colonies. Deuced good of them. I attended the theatres, two race meetings, sampled the theatres, went over a silver mine, got drunk, and then moved on to Melbourne, where I stopped ten days more. I attended a day’s racing on the Caulfield course, went to more theatres, had two oc three gallops with the drag hounds. I went up country to stop with some people named Eairbairn, at Lona, and had a good time. I then moved on to Sydney, aud arriving just in time for their season stayed about 3 weeks. My doings there were as follows: Pour days’ racing at Randwick, about a dozen balls, theatre every night, supper parties, picnics every day down the harbor (glorious fun that!) hunting twice a week, tennis, cricket, etc , and nearly always drunk bed being usually reached at 4 a.m. Just about as bad as London. The women here are about very much the same as in London—l mean ladies, of course. I suppose it’s the climate. I have seen two people here you know, ‘ Jelly ’ Churchill and Ned Craven, 19fch Hussars. He has been having a lot of fun! Broken his collar bone and ribs whilst pursuing kangaroos. He says he is going home in November. I left Sydney on October 10th, and have just arrived here. I remain in New Zealand till the end of November, and then go back to Melbourne. After that I know not. How’s my wife? All you boys ought to come out here; , you would make a fortune and have

ots of fun. I almost lire in the addle; Now, au revoir , love to all good boys and girls.”