NEW COLONIAL INDUSTRY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 319, 21 June 1875, Page 3

NEW COLONIAL INDUSTRY.

A gentleman in Auckland carries on the pleasant business of finding “affinities” for parties wishing to enter into the happy state of wedlock. Recently, however, a man who had been supplied with an help meet for him, objected to pay the agent his fees. The agtnt exposes the man as follows ; “ Now, to show you what a mean man McCraith was, on the wedding day he left me and the bridesmaids together, but, before leaving the parlour, he counted the almonds and raisins to see how many we would eat in his absence. The bridesmaids noticed it, and told me of it after he had gone. So between us we managed that he should have very light work in counting when he came back, for we cleared the plate. When I think of the really handsome woman I have helped him to as a wife, and the plainness of McCraith himself, I am irresistibly reminded of the fairy tale of ‘ Beauty and the Beastnot that I for one moment wish it to be understood that I call the bridegroom a beast, for that would be libellous, you know—or at all events a breach of good manners, which I am at all times most careful not to commit,”