A ROMANTIC STORY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1528, 26 August 1912, Page 4

A ROMANTIC STORY.

THE ISLAND PRINCESS. MARRIES YOUNG AUCKLANDER, SEQUEL A WEIRD ONE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, August 2s. Recently a roiivanliQ story was published of a marriage of a young Aucklandoi" with an hland princess. Tho dusky maiden had just completed her education at a Wanganui college, and wes a brief holiday in Auckland prior to returning to Fiji to enter into matrimony with one of her own race. To tins propo&d marriage tho Island chiefjainess "was no willing party, and a romantic love episode during her brief stay in Auckland presented a way out of tho difficulty. Ihero was a youth—the son of a wellKiimui Auckland resident., and & member tho staft 0 f a leading merchant—who. Jlilco the lady herself, was at that ideal jig© when tho years known as " teens'' havo just boon leit. Besides tho glamour ot romuneo which surrounded the affair, .ho desire to aid tho lady in her distress may havo assisted in a hurrindly-fo rmod decision, but at any lvite, thoy married oa tho morning of the little princess's depar* lure, for her Island homo. It was then arranged that tho bridw groom 6iiould follow in a month or so spoil as ho could complete arrange mentis for his departure from Auckland. It was not till the young man ulti-mately-reaohod Suva that the second chap* tcr in uio romance was rovvalod. On his arrival at l'iji all oflorts to locate hid undo were without avail. Anxious and weary weeks followed, and now at last conies tho news that tho husJ band has discovered that his brido has been (spirited off to Tavinni. .A eolrtnn jrariung has also reached tho youthful huslxMid that if he dares to follow his bride, then ill botido him. fi 18 r, 11 ?^ 0 ! 1^00 ,'! H 1 ":' intervention oi tho Uritish authorities is being sought*