AN UNPRINCIPLED SCAMP.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 353, 2 May 1884, Page 5

AN UNPRINCIPLED SCAMP.

4> A case of most thoroughly unprincipled conduct on the part of a bridegroom is reported as haying occurred at Wellington. Some time ago a young man, who has been employed as clerk in an offict at Wellington, became acquainted with the daughter of a much respected settler in the city. After* , short time he began to pay her marked attention,, and finally proposed to her and wai : accepted. It is stated that he then reagu. entedthatin addition to the income sfnsv his 'appointment he was possessed of consid- . ' ', erable landed property in London, afid that , ~ Lll,ooo had been leffc ! to him as a ;? legacy. „/.'■: -Everything appeared to go on all right, and ;,< , in '.due course the wedding was fixed to take \g'. place "at the parents* house. < At, 9" o'clock oxi !; c a ' recent 'morning /(the; 5- u < ( to s havVexpMned tp the young; and^iw;Si parents that ,\mm>diat^jr^^|toi^ci!^^^ , ; h:e^^^tbly.^^^Si^^fe| bourne; enr&kie foiiErigland[^o^g^6a^t&i^'.r^- >-". pTOpeity;' and: hel^eq^eß%d*hS;^fend|4t&r 1 ' father-in-law ; tip >■'- end6Ho^^ili>ipi^J^^^£?;i' t tpjo^e^e^jieces'sarj^^ f ny#&yer,-for th^]*ourney v \^a^ v^de^y^tfi^V;> you^glady's.^^ fully e^#^|uißite,fof the i !b^ ,'i?; voyiagE' Cjhdlyo^glmai^o^e^plaineja that x.^i he fcjgjEl. arranged for a clergyman at fafyifomf^f;', named, that he had engaged a number f ol' v " cabs ifor, iihs occasion, and'^had^secured pa*. .: sage^rby the -rWanaicS leaving, f 6b ithe Sbuti.V»;in the afternoon. He also, it is said, actually v got labelß, and addressed the lady's^boxes for the projected voyage. On the weddih|j morning a sumptuous wedding breakfast was duly provided, the table being very handsomely set iout. t The gueßts amve'dat th¥'H6u^, bub when the appointed hour came'-therfe-WM no appearance -of the cabs, the clergyman, or bridegroom.' When half Jpast 10 'arrived and still no sign of these indispensable Wjmncts was visible, the suspicions of some of th« young lady's friends . b6cam« taroused, and they prooeeded to makeinvestigations; On enquiring at the office where the young man had been employed they found that the only information to be gleaned wai v iaat he had been dismissed from his appoinment, and on going to the shipping office thejn found that no tickets had been taken out aijjlleged, and the party at once broke up. It is believed that the bridegroom left Wellington by steamboat.