ROMANCE OF IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4187, 21 August 1874, Page 3

ROMANCE OF IMMIGRATION.

(From the Southland Times.) A very romantic love affair has come under our notice. Little more than twelve months ago, a young sailor on board one of Her Majesty's ships of war, while his ship was lying- at Queensland, Ireland, became acquainted with a pawky-eyed Irish girl, with whom he fell in love. His passion was responded to as iinhesitatingly as was Komeo's by the fair Juliet. The result was that he resolved not to get married forthwith, but to leave the navy and go to the Colonies, with a view to improve, if not to make, his fortune. With great reluctance the girl acquiesced in the resolution formed by her sailor lover, who shortly afterwards left the navy, and told her, in bidding her farewell, that he was going to New Zealand, whence he promised to return in. eight months' time to marry her. When he made this promise, he was, like all susceptible young men when they are in love, in a very sanguine frame of mind, and his idea of New Zealand then was that he had only to go, and see, and make his fortune—innocent youth ! He certainly, as the sequel will show, had no intention of jilting his lady-love. He did come to New Zealand ; but, instead of making a large sum of money suddenly, ho had, like most working men who have no friends hi the Colony, to gird up his loins and walk the land in quest of employment. This, however, he had no difficulty in finding, but he did not continue long in one place till about three months ago, when he succeeded iu procuring permanent employment at the Woodlands Meat Works. During all this time he never wrote to the girl he had left behind him ; not because he had become careless about hei - , but because he had given way to that vague indefinable distate for letter writing which grows upon most people in the Colony. Meanwhile the young girl in Ireland looked and sighed and sighed and looked again, for tidings of her young rover, till at last, sick with love and hope deferred, and no tidings arriving, she obtained a passage from Queenstown, to the Bluff, in the ship Carrick Castle, resolved to find her lover. On arriving in Southland, quite lately, she made many inquiries, but without the desired result. ' However, about ten days ago, it being pay-day at the Meat Preserving Works, her "young man " came into Invercargill, and happening, by the merest accident, to pay a visit to the Immigration Depot, in Tay Street, the first young girl that met his eye was "his own darling Nora." Happy pair! A few days afterwards the delighted lovers rented and fitted up a cottage at Woodlands, and on Friday last the two young people were united in happy wedlock. In the words of the old song, "Long may they live, and happy may they be."