WILD CAREER OF AN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

WILD CAREER OF AN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN.

Many anpcdntes are lindin" tbeir way into the Paris papers with reRjifct to the wild doings of Lord Ghavk Hamilton, ihfi heir to the dukedom, who died the other day at Hy«i'Pß. Tn Paris one of his favorite freaks was to jive a iimsniGcnt siipppr par'y at the Maison d'Or, and wind up the e\ehing by Bingin« the whole of the taMti equipage into the street, At Baden he was addicted to scattering rnnleiix of gold, to be scrambled for by the crowd which gathered underneath the windows of the Convewationhnns. On one occasion, having quarrelled with his mistress, he threw a necklace he had presented her 'witb, of the value of £2OOO, into the river Oos. But it was afterwards 6slied np again. The last time be was in Paris was in 1879, i wheu he dissipated in a single orgie

the month's allowance, which he- had just received from his family; He hud married the divorced wife of M. Puskiewitch, but had been separated from her. Then, wishing to contract a second marriage with ut young lady for whom he had conceived a violent passion, he embraced Roman Catholic ism in the mistaken belief that, by so doing, he would invalidate his previous union. Latterly he had completed the wreck.of biscoustitution by the abuse of choral and chloroform, and bis stormy life was brought to a close in the midst of the orange groves of Hyeres,