Elopement of Mrs St. John.
The following particulars of a painful incident in high life, to which reference has been widely made in the Colonies lately, are given by the Sydney Daily Telegraph :—"Private letters have been received by the mail just arrived which cannot out fail to give pain to the very numerous friends of liis Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, who was for six years one of our most popular Governors. It appears that some two months prior to the departure of Sir Hercules from tke Cape of Good Hope, Lady Kobioson and her daughter, Mrs St. John, left for England in advance of' their husbands. Sir Hercules and Major St. John, his so»« in-law and aide-de-camp, fallowed in due, course, but thp young lady was fiickle towards her spouse, and when she heard of. his departure from the Cape thought fit to elope with a Major Stephenson, who , had been paying her considerable attention. When Sir Hercules and Major Ft. John had arrived in London the guilty pair had flown. The unfortunate affair' caused considerable excitement in London." I
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4446, 5 April 1883, Page 3
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181Elopement of Mrs St. John. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4446, 5 April 1883, Page 3
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