AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 2907, 13 June 1872, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VICTORIA. “A slip ’twixt cup and lip” is the heading given by a (• eelong paper to the story of a young man having been forsaken at the eleventh hour by his bride. They were to have been married on May 9. On the previous evening the young lady found that some little extra adornim nts were want* ing, and to provide for these deficiencies, accompanied by her intended mother-in-law, she went to Geelong next morning, her affianced having previously arranged to meet them at the church. On starting, she received an order for L 5 10s on the linn where the widower is employed, and half-a sovereign from the youth’s mother. In due time both of them reached Geelong, and the order was speedily changed into hard cash. The young lady then contrived to get her to select some flowers, &c , in one of the millinery establishments, while she herself made a visit to a jeweller’s in quest of a pair of ear-rings. They parted, and this was the last glimpse that was seen of the intended bride by her would-be relatives. When the important hour arrived there was no bride ; and enquiry elicited the fact that a young maiden in wedding robes had taken her departure by the midnight train for Ballarat. The Geelong Advertiser of the 14th May states “that the gentleman in question is now on the eve of being married to an elderly lady, who has officiated for some time as his housekeeper, and whose matrimonial experiences are equal to his own. The fair absconder, since her flight to Ballarat, is said to have been in communication with her dressmaker in Geelong, with whom, in her haste, she had left some of her wedding apparel to be finished, which she now desires to be forwarded. The brightest feature in the affair is, that the dressmaker, to whom she is almost a stranger, is desired to forwaid a good reference in the pocket of the dress.”