An Elopement to Auckland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1444, 2 September 1885, Page 2

An Elopement to Auckland.

The. Cambridge; (England) Independent Press o£ jqhe the 27j|£had the following about a :cftsj9 whieiiriras already beea mentioned t^Vß^Vthev^rrival of th» New Zoaiahd which reached \.-^ Plyni6iL& ~--i»n Saturday morning, .we hdVe' positive informationoE the whereabojuts/of Mr E. Tredgett,. who eloped from JOsjubridge on March the 11th with Missi ".Constable a girl whohad assisted m ;TjsdJ;ett's shop. As is welL.loipwh to our readers; Tredgett left behind him a) devoted wife and no less than ten .chiidteiK . It appears from the ship register thai they embarked on tha 12th of >March at Gravesend, callingthemselves" Mr and -Mrs E. Turner, and they went out m the second saloon of the above steamer. Tredget paid upwards of £90 for the tickets, and was very lavish during- the voyage! to the under stewards. . He informed his fel-low-passengers and the officers of the steamer that he was just married, and. that he did not approve of early marriages ! .[As a matter of fact, " he was married at Eden Chapel at the age of 19] and that his l travelling wife' had immediately fallen, into . an interesting state. He also stated thathis father had. died, and that, after carrying on with his brother his late (?) father's business they had mutually divided the business and that he intended to start a business as nurseryman, &c, at Auckland, New Zealand, if there was a chance of doin? so. His ' travelling wife' won golden opinions from her fellow passengers, and the elegance and variety of heir toilet excited considerable comment. Tredgett did not command any special mark of attention from his fellow passengers, and his inordinate jealousy of his inamorata repelled any advances which might have been made to him. In the tropics, upon one glorious night j* a fancy dress ball was held, which the principal officers of the vessel and the first- and second saloon passengers attended. Mr Tredgett assumed the character of Romeo, while of course Miss Constable affected Juliet . ": Mr , and Mrs E. Turner" represented that they had been reared m affluent circumstances, and they V" evidently had " well feathered" themselves before leaving England, for they had a considerable quantity of heayy luggage. They landed at Wellington, New" Zealand, on April 28th, and took the branch boat for Auckland."