A WELSH GIRL AND HER FAITHLESS LOVER.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 17, 7 January 1878, Page 2

A WELSH GIRL AND HER FAITHLESS LOVER.

Tho Chostor poljco woro called upon to arbitrate in a singular ohho rocontly. Vor ton years an L'ish labourer had been employed on a farm noiir Hawardcn, nnd had Hnvod about £2 JO. Ho deuiilod, flomowhnt suddenly, to go to " tho ould counthry " and^pend tho rost of his days tharo.^JJ^t. ihlil^ljvaß .just. ono obstacle, in thd forj^ of tt'fbuxoin Welsh 'lass at a ■ ncighb'p'rlrig fdruiJfM whom' lie had promisod mari-iago. ho'montionccl his iutontlan to His 1 "swatc-bourt,'' and promised to rotnfi|for her rumor cloos not atnt.o, but' tho 'I|]hli'iii(ui tuni'od up, nt Choster tho qtho| night and tho W'olsh girl wns with hini. ' Slio v exprossod" hor determination tp fevory onn sli'o met who would listen to hor story that sho would not ba bo-fooled, b/ him, that sho would go to Ireland with him ralher tlinn. bo " done." 'J'ho'poor girl stuck to him, till at longth he found hor fluit/iblo lodgings, whon ho loft hor, as ho suui, to proeuro somo Bnppor. v lfc nil at once struck the girl that this was/a blind, and nliu bailed n cab and drove to^tho station just in time to discover her "-lover ' in a third.<<class carnage bound [for Dublin,' Sho, no Hoonor espiod him than huo rushed into tho carriage, sei^id him by tho shouldora and tumbled him on to tho platform, whore sho held hold him till tho train had departed, Sho fltatod tho facts of tho case to tho railway officials, but, as they could not) assist! hor sho hnulod hor hero off to 'tho polioo st'vlion lato at night. A dotootiro and ft night sorgeant put it to tno foolings of tha Irishman if it was n proper thing to do. and told him ho should marry tho girl. Ho declined lo do that, "Thoy then suggested that he should hnnds'omoly roniunot'ato her on acflount of bligHtod hope.), nnd a tor a doal of ehnlling,* mingled with a lot of wailing and' 1 protestations on tho part of tlio girl thnl, aho yVquld go and drown hor : -shlf, flho ' ovontually compounded tho matter for a tioviaroign, nnd tho Irisbmnn wont on In a vvivy rejoicing by tho 10.2Q cxproso. • l /