LOST WEDDING RINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1932, Page 3

LOST WEDDING RINGS

CURIOUS FINDINGS. One day an Auckland suburbanite who had newly become tenant of a house was mak.ng prcparat.on lor tiie forthcoming pumpkin crop when lie turned up a glittering trifle and iOund it to be a wedding ring. A decent romantic kind of a chap he is, and lie d.d i.ot rush with it to the jeweller s caitld run, but took the trouble to ascertain who had been the tenants before him, and, in fact, was able to ul> ain tinnames of quite a number of them without, however, being a le to reL ,iv it. Last year lie received an invitation from an old school Iritnd tJ attend his wedding. The old Ir.end was marrying a widow. At the wedding breakfast the middle-aged bridegroom during some more or 1. ss facetious remarks, mentioned that his wife had been a widow ai d that during her first marriage she had b.cn gardening and lost her wedding ring. He wag funny with his advice to her not to lose the second one. His guest friend listened to the little st-ofy with some astonishment and enquired as to the bride’s old home. It was identi - al with the house he was occupying and in the' garden of wliii h the r.ng : was found. It is a fact that the br.de of last year has two wedd ng rings now. OTHER INSTANCES. At least two local instances are in the knowledge of the writer. In one instance, she was a yumg bride, and was assisting in weeding the vegetable gaidcii. Picking up a cabbage stump (-lie was left handed) she gave it a mighty throw and off came both keeper and wedding rings. A search soon found the keeper, hut a long and often repeated search failed to discover the wedding ring. There was much bewailing and fears of “bad luck”, at the loss of tli wedding ring, but hubby procured a new one, and id : imately the Sears of a “bad luck” visitation passed, or were forgotten. The following summer some months later, the husband was in the garden weeding out a bed, when with a root out tame a golden sheen—the missing wedding ring was safe, and there was much jubilation at its snfe return to the -place it had first held on the good wife’s finger. A second instance of a similar nature occurred in a Weld Street home some years before. The mother who took a keen interest in the- garden found on concluding her labours one morning that her wedding ring had ••'isa | pea red and a search ] roved fruitless. Some months later, lfer son when engaged in d gging potatoes for dinner, before leaving for school found that one of the • potato stalks had grown ,thro"gh the ring end this proved to he the one that had been lost about the time the potatoes were planted.