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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1098, 13 November 1883, Page 4

The Wanganui Herald states ;—An amusing little tale comes to our ears in connection with a certain lovable couple who figured lately in the local Police Court in reference to Sunday trading at an hotel in town. The lady in question appears to have an idea that her husband is enamoured of hotel life, and had suspicions that as ho did not come home at night he stopped at a certain hostelry in town. ' Accordingly one morning she went to the house in question, and apparently assuming that she knew he was there, naively enquired whether he was up. A little girl, who resides in the house, as naively Replied that he was not, and the virtuous wife being on the right track immediately demanded to see him' in his room. Considerable demurring followed, but eventually tha landlord permitted the interview. The lady, in company with the little girl, according'y proceed to the room of the truant husband; hut the latter, hearing the well-known footsteps on the stairs, quietly tamed the key in the door. When his wife desired admission, therefore, no answer could be obtained, bu* with wonderful persistente of purpose the lady ex. pressed her determination to stop all day till she saw her lord'and master. After about two hours’ waiting, she reminded the landlord of the hotel that by the Act he must have his bedrooms all cleared out by 11 o’clock, and if the door was not opened by thatftime she wou’d lay an information again»t him. This somewhat frightened Boniface, who, not liking the appearance of things, took a ladder round the back way, and proceeded through the window to open the door—only, alas ! to find the poor husband gone. Finding his retreat cut off by the door, he had tied the sheets together and quietly lowered himself from the window, his discomfitted wife having patiently kept watch over the cage long after the bird was gone. The feelings of all parties may be better imagined than’ described. Says the'Wellington Post :—“ Marry in haste and repent at leisure ” is an adage the truth of which is repeatedly illustrated, but it remains to bo seen whether an instance of “ rapid matrimony,” which occurred in Wellington a few days ago, will prove an exception to the rule. A visitor to Wellington from the Dunstan goldfields, which he had left to search for employment in the Armed Constabulary, was introduced the other evening to a new arrival of the opposite sex by the s.s. lon’c. Her charms were irresistable. It was liteially a case of “ love at first sight. ” The fair one began to lament her state of single blessedness, and darkly hinted at the advantages of wedded life. “ I’ll marry you if yon like,” promptly remarked the accommodating swain. “ All right,” she-responded, and next morning the happjt lover called round at the place where his adored one was employed in the humble but honest sphere of domestic service, to ascertain whether she were “ stilt of the same mind. ” A reply being obtained in the affirmative, the young lady discarded her broom and slop-pails, and, with the assistance of acquaintances, who consented to become the necessary witnesses, the loving pair were duly ** hitched ”at the Registry Office. Next day they proceeded on their honeymoon In a steamer bound for the South. We have not heard whether they have yet commenced to throw the tea things at one another.

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