AN ELOPEMENT PREVENTED.

Evening Star, Issue 4019, 13 January 1876, Page 3

AN ELOPEMENT PREVENTED.

What an exciting b flair must be the chase of runaway lovers; sad also mast be the catastrophe to the Immediately interested of an elopement nipped in the bud—after all the scheming and preparation ; the clandestine meetings, and munteuvring generally. What a doleful tide, too, was that which a distressed oldlady told last week, when in sea ch of her fugitive daughter, and whom she ultimately captured while engaged in a post haste journey towards Port Chalmers intent on a t isit to Victoria. The fair truant was a young girl of great personal) attractions ; the guilty swain—though not personally prepossessing was a successful vendor of poultry, egg?, butter, wheat, and o:her things much apj.reciat.d in this life. At an early hour of a day early in the past week, he helped the fair creature to alight from one of the highest windows of hj r home, and furnished with a scanty stock of wearing apparel, hurried away from scenes no longer charming. Hut inquisitive, meddling people, as the loving couple found, are well distributed in every country, and one of the genus would insist on this particular morning in being more than usually particular about having a friendly chat; and noticing the anxious, irritated countenances in the buggy, at once raised an alarm, and soon the once happy pair were run down. When the moment of capture arrive I the vld lady showered torrents of abuse, as well us blows from her umbrella, on the devot'd but dowi.cast Lothmio. and then, haring advised the poor fallow to go home end “s.wed the plough,” she compelled the young lady, now the “ observed of all ob servers.” to once more seek shelter and protection under the parental roof. Palmerston Times,’