The South Australian Chronicle - Saturday, June 8, 1895
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Mail News.
OUR ANGLO-COLONIAL
LETTER.
[From our Special Correspondent.]
London, May 3, 1895.
Ticklish ventures though the West Australian gold mines appear to be, Lord Douglas of Hawick would have done better to have returned to Coolgardie, as he intended, instead of mixing himself up with all the unsavory troubles of the Wilde case. The bitterness between this young man and his brother and their eccentric sire seems intenser than ever. Lord Douglas applied for a warrant against Lord Queensberry for threatened assault last week, but the magistrate, after hearing details in private, declined to grant it. The son, I hear, alleges he will not rest till he has shown the public the sort of man his sire really is. I should tell him if I knew him that it was quite unnecessary.