A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3886, 3 January 1884, Page 4

A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE.

The Port Adelaide correspondent of ono of tho Adelaido journals gives the following details relating to a recent police court case, which attracted a g'.od deal of attention :— " We have had a little romanco to enliven ur. All your nautical readers aro no doubt familiar with a very valuable publication known as Sawteil's "Nautical Almanac. The publisher of that book is aMr A. E. Sawtell, living at Tort Adelaide, and conducting an extensive business lie has a pretty aud accomplished daughter, wl o, he says, is 18 year J old ; and he ought to know, though others not bearing the same relation to her avow that she is 21. There worked at the Port, as clerk to a (stripping agency firm, a young m.in of color, commonly known as Black Sam. He is a very clever well educated young follow, and is son of a wealthy planter in the Isle of .France. That planter married a black lady, and the issue of tho marriage is Black Sam, or to use his proper namo, Mr Momphlait, a French creolo. Well, our friend met Miss Sawtell, and at once made court to her, going, ho it is said in si straightforward fashion to tho father and telling him ho loved his daughter, and all the rest of it. Tho father •would have none of him, and, ofcour.se, the old result followed. The couple ran up to the town after a while and got married by a Mr Mud_re, who combines with an agency bn.sine.-vt thu pantor.-hip of a branch of the Muthodist Uhuivh, and who now is accused bitterly for permitting the marriage to take pLace, although in truth he, docs not appear to be very bUmeworthy. Atter the ceremony Miss Sawtell, like the good girl she was, went to her fathers house, and Momphlait, like the plucky fellow that lie was, went after her and claimed her as his bride. The father wouldn't let her go, however, and within a day or two lie summoned the bridegroom to tho police court to answer v charge of making a false declaration of the age of the girl. Tho unfortunate follow now stands committed for trial, but, ho has all the public sentiment with him, and is admired by all tho ladies, who like this sort of romance. He was admitted to bail, which like tho cost of his defence, is euid to be subscribed for him by admiring friends. A day or two after the commitment the girl managed togetloo.se from the paternal mansion, and the ne,,ly-wedded couple are now living in a snug little cot of their own. It is believed that tho prosecution of tho young fellow will not be contin v od."