REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE AT A WEDDING.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 139, 20 April 1854, Page 4

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE AT A WEDDING.

A strange circumstance occurred on Saturday night in the Quartier Bonne-Nouvelle. Paris. A young man, who had been married the day before, had invited some of his friends to come and rolebjate the wi tiling, An excellent dinner .var. prepared, ami done ample justice loo; :::::!, i.i i!:e eu'.nre of the evening, it wan prop;v:e:l t> o*;te:!ij>o:i..M !l dance. Whilst in t!'.-i a.ii'st or a grand galop, one of ilie genl'cincn .suddenly sent his fool through t!:e flooring, ai:d got a sharp fall in ejrisctpienc.o. In endeavouring lo extricate himself, lie broke pail of the ceiling of the room below, so thai a hole was made between the two stories Immediately so dreadful an odour vdx tip ."roiii the room underneath, thai the quests were mil able to endure it ; and at last ii was resolved to go and knock at the doer of Ihe :i;>aili::ir.l LcJow. 'i'lit; was do::.", li\'.l ;:.; no v. as given, inquiries were mad;! of tin; puller, who said thai lite apartment was occupied by a wealthy manliamk ih {omnilUe.: jil the Hailes, who ssmc days before gone to s p e her friends in the country, and had not since returned. It was though:, under the circumslanees, best lo send fur I'.ie commissary of police, and on his arrival the (lonr was broken open. The cause of the dreadful odour was then discovered. The body of ihcKixrc'i'iiulrc v.:i>!\i:u:.l on the bed iaan advanced r.lulo of di;::h having, lo ail ;i|)jiLaianee, iieea prodm ( d by the fumes of lighted o'.'arenal. It si'ecis thai her husband had, InU year, pat na end to his e>:i..'.(nee in a siatikir i.iaa.ier, a::.! ihat ever since she in I been siiniewiial nffecled i:i her mini, la phi -i* of going to the country, a; the pmier l!:n!::',!il, .-be :iii!. r t have returned quietly h j.ae, an.! ;.::! a.: ; i! i to her existence. — G<Oi<i nr.