Love, Romance, and Marriage.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 248, 11 August 1874, Page 7

Love, Romance, and Marriage.

We take the following pretty story from Saturday's Southland Times:— " A very romantic love affair has corrie under our notice. Xittle more than a year ago, a young sailor on board one of Her Majesty's ships of war, while his ship was lying at Queenstown, Ireland, became acquainted with a pawky-eyed Irish girl, with whom he fell in love. His passion was responded to as unhesitatinglv as was Borneo's by the fair Juliet. The re"sult was that he resolved not to get married forthwith, but to leavo the navy and go to the colonies, with a view to improve, if not make, his fortune. With great reluctance the girl acquiesced in the resolution formed by her sailor love, who shortly afterwards left the navy; and told her; in bidding her farewell, that he was going to New Zealand, whence he promised to return in eight month's' time to marry her. When he made this promise, he was; like all susceptible young men when, they are in love, in a very sanguine frame of mind, and his idea of New Zealand then was that he, had only to go, and see, and make his fortune—innocent youth ! He certainly, as the sequel will show, had no intention of jilting his lady-love. Be did come to New Zealand ; but, instead of making a large sum of money suddenly, he had, like

most working men who have no friends in the colony, to gird up his loins and walk the land in quest of employment. This, however, he had no difficulty in finding, but he did not continue long in one place till about three months ago, when he succeeded in procuring permanent employment at the Woodlands Meat Works. . During all this time he never wrote to the girl he had left behind him; not because he had become careless about her, but because he had given way to the vague indefinable distaste for letter-writ-ing which grows upon most people in the colony. Meanwhile the young girl in Ireland looked and sighed, and sighed and looked-again, for tidings of her young rover, till at last, sick with love and hope deferred, and no tidings arriving, she obtained a passage from Queenstown to the Bluff, in the ship Carrick Castle, resolved to find her lover. On arriving in Southland, quite lately, she made.many enquiries without the desired result. However, about ten days ago, it being pay-day at the Meat Preserving works, her ' young man' came into Invercargill, and happening, by the merest accident, to pay a visit to the Immigration Depot, in Tay-street, the first young girl that met his eye was ' his own darling Nora.' Happy pair ! A few days afterwards the delighted lovers rented and fitted up a cottage at Woodlands, and on Friday last the two young people were united in happy wedlock. In the words of the old song, ' Long may they live, and happy may they be.'" • . .