A Souths Australian Romance

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 85, 20 December 1883, Page 3

A Souths Australian Romance

An Adelaide nappr says : —We have had;* little romance to enliven us . All your nautical readers are no doubt familiar with a very valuable publica lion, ♦ known as ' Sawtell's Nautical Alamanac' lhe publisher of that book -as a. A'r A. E. Sawtell, living at JPort- Adelaide, ' aud conducting an ' extensive business. He has a pretty and accomplished daughter, who. he says, is 18 years old; and he ou^ht to know,> .though others not bearing the same relation to her avow that sbe is SI. There worked at the port, aa clerk to a shipping agency firm, a young man of colour, commonly known as Black Sam. He is a very clever, well educated young fellow, and is «on of a wealthy planter in the Isle ot France. 'Ihat planter married a hlaek lady, and the issue of the marriage is* Black Sam, or to use his proper name, Mr Momphlait, a French Creole. Well, our friend met Miss Sawtell, and at once made court to her, going, so it is said, in a straightfoward fashion to the father and telling him he loved his daughter, and all the rest of it. The father would have none of hub, and,. of course, the old. result followed. The couple ran up to . tow^n , after a while and got married by a Mr Mudge, who combines with an agency business the pastorship of a branch of the Methodist Church, and who now. Ie accused bit' erly tor permittingthe marriage '-'to take place, although in truth he , does not appear to he very blameworthy; Alter the ceremony Miss Sawtell,. like the good ..girl sbe was, went to. father's -house, and Momphlait, like the plucky, fellow ' thaVnewas; went after ber and claimed her as his bride. 'The lather wtmld't • let, her go, hpweyer,' kid within a dav . or two fie summoned the bridegroom ' to .the police court, to answer a charge of making a false declaration of the . .age of the girl.- The unfortunate r ifelldw ; irowsands committed for trial; . hutvhe has' aIL the public sympathy with hiih, and is admired by all the - ladies, wholika this sort of romance.