WEDDING THAT WAS NO MARRIAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1923, Page 3

WEDDING THAT WAS NO MARRIAGE.

LONDON, June 5. A si range surprise came to a man and woman yesterday who have lived together lor several years under the impression thill they were husband and wife. The man went to a London register office to obtain a eerl ifieate of his marriage, as he never remembered having one, hut no entrv could be found. Wlieu questioned furl her the official recalled that the- appileant had figured in one of the si ranges! happenings in the history of marriages. The marriage was to have taken pace in a north-west London church some years ago. The couple were before the altar and the registrar was in attendance. The clergyman look up his place am! murmured a few words. Suddenly turning to the bridegroom, he said. “Please excuse me for a minute. 1 want to speak to the registrar.” He left ihe altar rails, walked info tin* vestry and out into the side sf r«*et iu his own residence a lew raids away, lie never relnrned. and. a- far as can lie ascertained, ha- never laen heard nf since. ('niil'ii-inti arose among the wedding guests. The registrar went to look for the clergyman mid the party returned home, the bridal couple being under the impression that the were married. As they did not visit him again, the registrar thought they had made up their minds to he married elsewhere.