A FAMILY AFFAIR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1328, 30 August 1886, Page 2

A FAMILY AFFAIR.

It is not often that Napier supplies a thoroughly genuine and sensational romance (says the Baity Telegraph), but the following true tale may prove of interest to our readers. Many months ago a young tradesman of the place was keeping company with one of those charming girls for whom Napier is so famous—thanks to what the mayor would call our magnificent climate. He was young in years—only 19, —and the father getting a wrinkle of how the land lay, got an introduction to the son’s sweetheart, and, to make a long story short, goon succeeded

in displacing the son from his position, and eventually married the fair one. Abont 10 days ago the husband bad in the course of business to spend some time in the country, and took bis departure, leaving his wife and son in charge of the household goods. His back had not been long turned when, as if by magic, the old attachment between the son and his nowstepmother revived, and the husband had scarcely reached bis destination when the pair packed up their belongings and made tracks South, where they now are. The fond father and doting husband acquired this valuable information some three days t go, so what the upshot of the elopemei ft may be we know not, though a divorce suit with a son as co-respondent would be a decided novelty.