A GEE LONG ROMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 244, 20 October 1870, Page 2

A GEE LONG ROMANCE.

Melbourne and Ballarat having contributed then- ifceipsjof,s,e«sationali3m, ( it;was potto ber supposed that " IPLvbt" ";Wuld"be. content to remain "quiet," 'arid"' "iriake no"* sign" of, vitality and importance. Hence we were not surprised when^the Swire'-flaMied'^b^i the intelligence: p£ , whqs, were it not for^ne^eaiu 'f j would be'a'farce of. the broadest description, As jit is, the matter is;,a;mixture of the comio and the tragic, the^ofnic. prevailing.,- Some of our] readfei's ""inay* remember a c^sfe that occiipied many days 'i'ri ctturts at home where a child was foisted upbii one whd! Would be a fonjl parent, .by a cleVer i! wife. ' ! <The fraud however, was:diseovt>red> and the child did riot conic into the possession of; ithe fortune that thejschemer designed.it shojild., affair is the reverse, df. this, and it is,the child whd turns oat' to'"be th'e'iieir' to' a 'large property, andisaaid^to-havo* been -sold by bu mother to a lady who, desired to, give ■!»«'' Tieg'e lotd troof of/her affection for him. lto c^q runs''itf this Svise'i^A^ woman who bad Weil separated from her husband for many years gave birth to a male; child. The midwife who acted on the occasion,: it is alleged negotiated the sale of'the.''child > to another woihan who had been" mimed three years but Svasj childless. seenis {ofcawbeen the I order of the day, for the midwife, it" alleged, imposed on the/mother bfiitheicnila, statjiug that it(Wasm lady ia Melbourne|)ana ■■apt- revealing !the' fact, that. "spine ,A n? r ffti i<t e^lbtig fWLsMgW ii■'' Wf^ atscovefeaHhat/lSie-cltiid isheir to^ n/Sr!^( ■estate, and upon inqumes being set n6fr row to discover the whereabouts of.thejcbiWi*™l Nvhole rnatteihcpmes;'Qu^' - The .real niotber goes to the .woman wlio/it'is' alleged, bougut Lthe;child:¥tia'asksforit. In the meantime theiboy had died, after having been regwterea and' christened in the name of its r°P uJr 'parents. The woman whd'qlaimed to be tne mother, when she- found, put that t « child was dead chargecl the purchaser «^B :child.wifliiiaving caused-its death Tha hSisVand/iHioi 'had".- been;'Bold.^n ; »»". master more than any one else, disbftixe.T^j, 'the zaotber's story and regarded her as » ?imp:oster.■: H,9 therefore .turned hef..out,^ 'doors', and stilljConEiders j that, the cbilir ™» born to him by his own wife. If tT. SiT e meiits current be true, the wife ni™s 7* beeh an t.icipating- tli,e qbtaining of a chJJ;^ 0 'soitie outside quarter, as. for three montu pritjr to Ihe mock accouchement s^e ; "ac*iTa'. i; ''said, disgui#ed; Her person! by the? use « *Vri •low's., i/The iiurse r rthe ( baby-linen,iiWd .w jj Wa^le, were all on the: scene, bub heafdof the professional -maii'whojatteu" the j lady atvthe critical ,mojnen^.,;4|Ue,.4m (bajiQ of the. would-be mother is an eng"l?^ .on 'the" Govermen/; lines of ,wel( known1 in keelorig.-^Obrrospondence «