AS ARISTOCRATIC SCAVDAL.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1093, 29 May 1882, Page 3

AS ARISTOCRATIC SCAVDAL.

— ♦ -77The new Earl of Lonsdale has hardly had time to get his coronet fixed to his head when fche unhappy rumor gets abroad that the late Earl's widow is in an interesting condition. It places him in a rather trying position should the coming younster prove to be a boy, he would have to step down and out and become Mr Hugh Lowther again. It's true the rumor lias been contradicted bat it's as likely as not to be -wrellfounded. There will be lively times should ifr prove true, however, and a posthumous son and heir make his appearance ; for the present man will certainly question the young aspirant's genuineness. So, at least, say his friends, and his wife, who is a sister of the runaway, Marquis of Huntly, is just the sort of woman to keep him up to it. It will be a difficult job to disprove the right of new claimant, of course, though it is well known that the late Earl and his Countess were separated, and the effort, even to do so, will not, as can imagined, do the alredy questionable rejmtaion of the late Countess any good. But an earldom, with a town house in Carlton-house terrace, two castles, with other country places, a steam yacht, and £150,000 a-year, is something to tight for,and a woman's reputation isn't likely to be allowed to stand in the way in these degenerate days.