A LUCKY DRAW.

Evening Star, Issue 3620, 29 September 1874, Page 3

A LUCKY DRAW.

The * New Zealand Herald ’ relates the following characteristically Colonial anecdote:—

We are not certain whether the following may be looked upon as pointing to a moral, serving as a caution, or as something which is desirable to be followed as an example. It has nothin* whatever of the ideal or the romantic or the abstract about it, but very much of the practical. Some time back a young man landed on our wharf from the Bay of Islands. He was in a very despondent frame of mind, for he had, in the language of romance, courted a young woman, and the young woman having warmed up considerably in his favor, she, as young women and old women included have done before and will do again, jilted him. Then he came as stated. It was at the very hour at which the female immigrants were being landed from the Miltiades. The thought struck him—a happy thought it hss since turned out. He watched the young women as they filed along the wharf, until one struck his gaze, and seized upon his admiration. He followed her to the barracks, sought the matron, and asked her for an introduction. This granted, he there and then proposed marriage. The girl was unable to give an answer that day, but would, she said, the next. The next day came, and the answer was favorable. The day following the clergyman had made the twain one. Then the young husband took his wife back tp the Bay of Islands and introduced her to the lady who had jilted him'. And the lady did not like it, nor does she lixe it any the better that the couple sit before her in church every Sunday’ by which her are pot so fervent as under other circumstances would have been the case. The young man says he has got tbo best of wives, and the young woman declares to,possessing the best of husbands. So mote it be. Marriage is a lottery, the only kind of lottery which is not illegal. The immigrant girl went in and drew out a prize.