FASHIONABLE SCANDALS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1144, 25 October 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

FASHIONABLE SCANDALS.

The " Star's " special correspondent, writing from London, says : Fashionable scandals have been frequent of lato. It is only a few weeks ago since society was pai'alysecl by the news of Col. Wellesley's elopement with the dancer, Kate Vaughac, and now rumour dcclaroth we are to have a divorce case in which royalty will bo implicated. Colonel Arthur Wellosley, of the Coldstrerm Guards, is a son of Lord Cowley, and one of the heirs t.o the Dukedom of Wellington. In 1871 ho joined the diplomatic circle, and to the infinite disgust of many seniors was promoted to the important post of military attache at St. Petersburg. There was a great row about the job, several awkward questious being asked in Parliament . but the Government braved it out, and after a time Col. Wellosley grew so popular that all ill-feel-ing died away. In 1873 he married the cjanghtor of the present Governor of New South Wales, Lord Augustus Loftus, then ambassador at St. Petersburg, and two years latsr was promoted to a similar post at Vienna. Miss Vaugban is a very pretty woman, for whom Colonel Wcllcsloy may possibly think the st world well lost." The immediate results of his folly are dismissal from the diplomatic service, and the erasure of his name from the list of persons invited to court. lie has also, to nso the words of the " Gazette," ceased to be a Queen's aide-de-camp." Both the Prince of Wales and Lord Beaconsfield are said to be much againsed him, and years must pass ere the fialse step can be retreivecl. The fashionable beauty, Mrs Lang try, whose name and photograph have been so much before the public this last few years, is about to be tho heroine of a cause celebre. Mr Langtry, a long suffering niari complaisant, has lost his temper and filed a bill in the Divorce Court. The names of the names of the co-respondents have not been published as yet, but I fear there can be no doubt that H.E..H. the Prince of Wales is one of thera. How the 'Daily Telegraph.' and those who read that much-libelled journal, will reveal in the details,