Peculiar Courtship.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6079, 15 July 1897, Page 4

Peculiar Courtship.

Moat young men are ready to protect their sweethearts from insult or injury at all risks, but when one wages fierce war upon the young lady's father beoause he not unnaturally objeots to her coining home at a quarter past one ift the morning, he is of a kind any girl Is better without. Suoh a one is Thomas ' Ludgate, a carman of 25, who " walked out with Misß Boast, of Red Lionstreet, East London. He took his sweetheart homo at the unreasonably early hour mentioned, and when she * had bidden him " Good-night," and the door was dosed, Mr Roast angrily inquired of his daughter " where she had 1 been until that time." Ludgate was listening, and hearing the parental re- ' proof, Idoked violenty at the door, whioh was opened at his summons by his prospective father-in-law, whom he immediately knooked down by a blow between the eyes. This roused Mr Roast to vigorous retaliation, and his assailant finding he was getting the worst of it gave him a oowardly stab in the abdomen. At the City of London Sessions the wound was desoribed as not /'serious in nature, but dangerous by liositlon," and the ohairman, after joining out to Ludgate that his action had ■Vbeen " unmanly and unEngliah," sen"itenoed him to twelve months' hard libour.