AN ARISTOCRATIC MILLINER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2124, 20 October 1885, Page 2

AN ARISTOCRATIC MILLINER.

A ROMANCE OF THE MUNBTER BANK FAILURE, Henry Rob, the millionaire distiller of Dublin, failed a few months ago, This became a large factor in the failure of the Munster Bank, ae it was his largest creditor. Seven years ago Lord Granville Gordon, a celebrated amateur cricketer, a qualified gentleman jockey, add an impecunious younger brother of the present Marquis of Huntly, wedded Roe's eldest daughter as an heiress, Unfortunately, the father postponed fclio marriage settlement, but she was regarded as having a large intarest in his will. The millionaire parent made a handsome annual allowance to the happy pair, who lived in fine style at No. 1 Queen Anne street. Cavendish square, London. Distillers and brewers, like bankers, ranking with ] professionals, my Lord's marriago was no bar sinister against social doors, and my lady becamea popularmatronlybello, My Lord was addicted to rcrs dcsociete, and was a great favorite at clubs and receptions. < His daintjly gotten-up volume of flowing 1 verse, sober or gay, entitled "Odd Half- i hours on Odd Half-sheets," became the i rage. But in the midst of his poetry-life I the family failure came, and the couple be- ; came prosaically penniless, About a month ] ngo a little shop, aB daintily gotten up as 1 the volume containing those vers, was opened at No. 45, Park-street, Mayfair, London, to which passers-by wereattracted !! by tasteful bonnets and delicious samples | : of hats that garnished the window. The e wares were tasteful, neat, elegant, and the P prices suited to meet all means. Above * the windows was inscribed the name of ut "Lierre," meaning French ivy,' and still J higher the royal arms, with the inscrip- g tion " Under Royal Patronage." Fashionable London immediately began displaying great interest jq Lierre's bonnet shop. It was known that Lierre 0 was the badge of the great Huntly family, 0 and Boon it was whispered that the pretty, 1 charming Lady Granville Gordon was * MM9 of the shop and the designer of its &

tempting contents, having become, under reverse of fortune, the pioneer of self reliance anion? the ladies of London, The Princess of Wales ordered ten bonnets the first day Lierre's opened, and as any action of the Princess is always dutifully followed by society, Lady Granville Gordon has commiinced her new career under most auspicious circumstances. Doubtless, she will soon make a marriage settlement for herself, and enable Lord Granville to add a poem on life itself to his dainty volume. Tho couple are devotedly attached to'each other.