A STRANGE STORY.
A strange story comes to us from a town on the West Coast of the North Island. A young couple decided 011 getting married, and they went to a clergyman. This gentleman told the couple to go to the Registrar and get a license. This they did, and of course answered the usual questions about being three days in the district, &c. When they came out out of the Registrar's office the young couple concluded they had been made one, thought the ordeal was not a very trying one after all, and went and lived as man and wife. This happened a few months back, and the probability is the loving couple would still have been blissfully unconscious of the true position had it not been for the inquisitiveness of the parson they first went to. He wondered why he had lost a marriage fee, and made enquiries from the Registrar, with the result that the young couple had to be told they were not married, although they had been living together for a month. However, the parson did not lose his fee, and we trust the marriage will be a happy one after all.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 279, 24 March 1897, Page 4
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198A STRANGE STORY. Hastings Standard, Issue 279, 24 March 1897, Page 4
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