ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1108, 12 June 1913, Page 4

ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR.

ISLAND PRINCESS AND AUCKLAND YOUTH.

A peculiar marriage match, in which Auckland people have been more or less interested, had its sequel this week, states the Star. Early last year a young princess, niece of King George, of Tonga, finishing her education at a ladies’ college in the North Island, came to Auckland, en route to her home, where her people had arranged for her fin alliance with an Island prince of high degree. The proposed marriage, however, was distasteful to the little princess, and she thought to checkmate her relatives by entering the matrimonial state in New Zealand. Accordingly, on the morning of the day on which she was due to leave* Auckland, she became the wife of a young man in the employ of one of the big Island trading firms in this city. The bride left immediately after the ceremony, the arrangement being that the husband should follow by the next boat, or as soon as his business arrangements would permit. This course was carried out, but when the youthful husband arrived at the home ot his Tongan princess, it was only to find that she had been spirited off to the far away Island of Taviuni, which is beyond the reach ot ordinary trading vessels. The husband, moreover, was warned that if he ever attempted to follow his princess, then ill betide him. The next chapter in the story is the return of the princess to Auckland by the last Island boat, en route to a Waikato sanatorium in a broken state ot health. Her condition is regarded as exceedingly serious.