Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 19 June 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Marriage is so often a failure even when all parties have been priviously consulted that it seems wonderful any attempt should be made prior to all who are entitled to have a word in the arrangements having been seen. This recklessness has been committed in America and led to an unexpected break down. A Miss Estelle Hagler was asked at the altar by the clergyman " Will thou accept this man, &c," when the young lady replied with vehemence and rapidity, " No, Sir, I won't. You are the first man who has asked my opinion on the matter. Mr Thayer (the bridegroom) has been courting my mother for more than a year. I thought it was her he wanted, but it seems he only wanted her consent to marry me, and she concluded to force me to wed him." This caused a sensation and concluded the cere« mony, the clergyman stating he had no power or inclination to bind any one against her will. Young men take warning, if you want a girl for your wife ask her, not her mother. lilvorybody is glad that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will be at work again. There has been some worrying of directors and auditors of the institution at Home. One auditor, Mr Moore, had a very warm time, the Judge bailing him up and insisting on answers which told very much against himself. The .1 udge's opinion of the audit is shown in the following question put to witness : " Do you think auditors are of any use at all — or would you do awaj" with them altogether ?" Time 3 are bad, though our Colonial Treasurer has been asserting at Oamarn that the settlers have some thirty millions more private wealth than in 1885. It is bad he has found it out, as he will soon be after it. " Stone-broke " is ono term used to denote want of money, but a much nicer term was used by Mr Moore, the unhappy auditor above alluded to, to signify the same state, viz., " lack of banking facilities."