A Lesson to Lovers

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 110, 25 February 1886, Page 3

A Lesson to Lovers

Our Aratapu correspondent on February 8 writes as follows: — A disgraceful scene occurred at Aratapu last week. A young woman, some months ago, joined her parents here, leaving her husband in England. The young woman has supported herself since arrival, but paid occasional visits to her parents. She formed an acquaintance with a young man, and they often appeared together in public. A day or two ago it became known that the two were going to Auckland together. A few hours before the intended departure, her father and a married brother of the young woman sought out tie young man, and, finding him in a boarding-house, at once attacked him, the father, it is alleged, holding him, while the son, it is said, kicked the unfortunate follow in a most brutal manner. The lover broke loose from the father's hold, aud rushed out of the house, followed by the two assailants and the young woman. The girl, in order t> savo her lover, stepped between him and hor enraged relatives, crying " Save him ! Save him!" Her shriuks brought many persons on to the scene, most of whom thought that someone was drowning in the river. Her efforts to prevent a futrher attack was useless, for her brother brutally struck her, and knocked her senseless, seeing which auother lady went off into hysterics. In spite of this the attack was renewed. How long this would have continued, or what state the young fellow would have been left in, it is hard to say, had not the bystanders interfered, and put a stop to it. The affair happened about an hour before midnight, and a few hours after the young woman and her bruised lover departed by steamer. — Weekly News.