A BIG MARRIAGE SCHEME.
Tlio details of an extraordinary marriago schcmo which has just boon concluded havo now transpired at Montreal, and the aft'iir is attracting a great deal of attcirion owing to tho novolty of the proposal. The schoino has boon launched in connection with a largo contingent of sottlors of French birth or extraction who havo come from Michigan, and have boon gathered together by a prioat named Father Paradis. They aro now preparing to sart.for Semicc miinguo, in tho pro* vince of Quoboc, whore lands havo boon secured. Among tho colonists aro 200 bachelors and an equal number of maidens who .u'o severally engaged to bo married, but their weddings havo not yet taken place because of poverty. Father Paradis, to urge oach couplo to join tho colonists, promised to givo each a farm, and to havo a groat maniago ceremony iti public in April, when tho whole 400 aro to bo married at tho samo time. On this condition they joined.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8174, 4 May 1895, Page 1
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165A BIG MARRIAGE SCHEME. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8174, 4 May 1895, Page 1
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