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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3756, 26 February 1907, Page 4

The (most of remarkable Christmas day’s matrimonial experiences was that of a young woman who was to have been married at St. Paul’s Church, Brentford, to an employee of the local district council. The bride and her relatives arrived at the church at nine o’clock iu the morning. The bridegroom lailed to appear, and the party were accommodated with seats while another marriage was celebrated. A messenger was despatched to the house of the missing bridegioom, who was found at breakfast. Pie had gone ; out to work at six o’clock, re-1 turned to breakfast at nine, and i forgotten all about his marriage arrangements. The prospective bride in the meantime was weeping and waiting at the altar: He hurried into his marriage clothes, rushed post haste to the church, and was duly married. By the last San Francisco mail a Christchurch lady who is now studying medicine at Edinburgh wrote as follows :—“ Next Tuesday night the whole household will go to a great women’s suffrage demonstration in the Music Hall. Eady Francis is chairwoman Some of the speakers will be Mrs Cobdcn Sanderson, Miss Billington, and Miss Kenney (of Holloway Gaol fame), Miss Mair, Eady Steel (of Edinburgh), and others. The women on this side are making a splendid fight now, sparks are flying, and things look as if they were really and truly going to hap pen at last. It has seemed very hard that women like Mrs Pricilla Bright M’Earen, who died only the other week, should have worked all their lives without seeing their hopes fulfilled ; hut apparently —or rather undoubtedly—these unconstitutional methods are ; going to have the desired effect. I have-heard some of the foremost suffragettes, for instance Miss Billiugton and Miss Pankhurst, speak, and find they are not by any means ‘shriekers,’ as the newspapers wilfully misrepresent them. I am thoroughly in sympathy with their methods since seeing the kind of women they are. The Earl of Darnley made a remarkable speech at a gathering of science and art pupils at Gravesend. “ I place myself before you as an example of deficiency in education,” he said. ‘‘l went through the ordinary public school course and received a university education I found myself at twentytwo a B.A. of Cambridge with a certain knowledge of Eatin and Greek which I have never found of any paiticular use, but without knowledge of French' Geramn,. or science. From my example I hope you will glean some benefit by securing that knowledge which it is now too late for me to accpiire. ” The Earl of Darnley, when he was the Hon. Ivo Bligh, was a famous cricketer. He played for Cambridge University and Kent, and gaptained one of the earliest English teams that visited Australia.