Aristocratic Scapegraces.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2869, 10 April 1888, Page 3

Aristocratic Scapegraces.

Some members of the nobility occasionally show up in an unfavorable light in the London courts, Within a ■week no less than four sprigs of nobili- f tyttufc in an appearance in the London • eras. The defendant in one case, J indeed, not only boasted blue blood, but ' royal blood, being no less a person than , the son of the Duke of Cambridge. But j blue blood, says an exchange, ia not a | guarantee against meanness on the ' part of its possessor. At least it was : not in the case of the Hon. Owen Fitz- ' George, A wine merchant left a case of champagne by mistake at the Hon. Owen's house. The latter thought the wine was a present, or said he did, and impounded and drank it. He was asked to pay for it and refused, and in con(sequence of his refusal had to put in an appearance in court to show reason why he was entitled to consumo another man's goods and not pay for them, Another " noble lord," who from the evidence given in his ease never pays his creditors more than one shilling in the pound, was adjudged a bankrupt, giving as a reason for his insolvency that his revenue did not come up f tftlhis expenditure; the latter always ' <Jeecling the former by exactly 95 per cenu. That peer must be a credit to his trades-people, The third titled claimant to '• official " notico was the well-known Lord Lonsdale, and the cause of his appearance the conjugal troubles of the equally well-known Violet Cameron. The fourth and last of the quartette was Lord Howard tie Walden, whose brutal conduct to his sick wife would disgrace the most ruffianly denizen of St, Giles. Whatever we may think ot Mr Buskin's opinion that 'the English people are ceasing to be English, we think there can be little doubt but that a large sprinkling of England's nobility are ceasing to be gentlemen.