FISHING AND MARRIAGES.
Dki’on i> the fact that young ladies occasionally fish, or are alleged to fish for husbands, there would at first sight , appear to be bat little connection between fishing and matrimony. But in some parts .>i Scotland the herring season is equivalent to the London season as regards -matrimonial prospects. If the season is a dal! one, weddings are few in number, whereas when the season is brilliant, young couples “ pair off’ with compare live briskness. This year the failing in the herring fishery has had, it is stated, n very depressing effect on the matrimonial market at nearly all the fishing stations. The doorcase in tiro marriages in the ihreo months ending Hepteuiber 30th last is very considerable In the Island of Lewes, with upwards of v 5.000 inhabitants, there were only two marriages, and iu Wick, with a population of 18,000, the number of marriages was only thirteen, being rather more thou half the usual total. Over the whole of Jioks and Cromarty, with about 83,UUU inhabitants, there were only thirty marriages. The fishermen, in short, seem to be displaying the. same kind of .willingness as the herrings.— Tali Mail Gazette.
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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 329, 12 June 1878, Page 4
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