Diamond cut Diamond

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 49, 26 April 1884, Page 3

Diamond cut Diamond

Some time ajjo * young man who has been employed as a clerk in Wellington became acquainted with the daughter of a settler in the city. After a time he proposed for the girl and was accepted. As the swain had represented that in addition to his income from his appointment, he was possessed of considerable landed property in London, and that £11,000 had been left him as a legacy, the parents offered every facility for the consummation of so desirable a match Everything was arranged for the wedding on Wednesday last, when the ceremony was to have taken place at nine in the morning. As it was intended the bridal l>arty should at once. start for England, the parents of. the. intended bride had tnnde every arrangement for her departure and the trousseau was carefully fferkfd m boxes ready for shipment in the VYanaka. The bridegroom elect had requested" his intended papa in-law to " do a bill," or endorse one,. 1o the tune of £400/ for the purpose of providing hinds for, the wedding trip. The wily parent refused. He had no objection to entrusting his daughter to the fellow, but he had powerful reasons against risking his name for £400 with a man he knew so little about. We can imagine the bitter disappointment of the lover when he discovered that for a few hundred p..uuds the cup of happiness was to be, dashed from his lips. Nothing was left for him but despair and flight. He fL'w on Monday. The Press Association informed us that on Wednesday the wedding feast was prepared and the guests were waiting, but the bridegroom was far away on the sea. As for the bride — "He conieth not, she said;" prrhap* fortunately for her. We do not pity the old man whose greed was excited by the pros.ectof "£II,OOO and landed property in London," to gratify which be would sell his daughter to an adventurer. Our sympathies are with the poor girl wb» has bceu made such an exhibition of. Better luck next time.