ELOPEMENT FROM RANGITIKEI.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1041, 30 May 1883, Page 3

ELOPEMENT FROM RANGITIKEI.

Wel takeitlie following from* the I Ran gitikei Advocate :—About the beginning of Aprils -aa: married man,- not* 100 nSiles from .Q^eatfQrd r being enanjppred of iR fair damsel of his..acquaintance, perIsnaded, her ; to- accompany liim..»on, vi a* pleasure trip to the North. He started; ajday before, the lady, and,, they met next 'day at W aver ley, from which place they -took ‘coach to went thence;to New Plymouth by; train, aiVd from that-place to Auckland by-steamer. They were travelling nnder the assumed; name of Mr and Mrs Francis; The' report of the elopement; soon ’ spread, about the Rahgitikei District, and got to the father’s ears, who at once took steps to recover his lest live property * He. proceeded to Wanganui and ; traced -them as far as\Auckland, where they hadjiheen) ifaypuHnglThe 'proprietor ?of the; hj Shakes pea rec Hotel f• w i th> •: their. custoin -, *as man end -wife. : ’ While : the in;; c. Auckland, "The/ 'gay Bptharip had,returnedto., Greatfprd .ofa Napier,; anddhveatened several persons with ; legal- proceedings for -libel' and 1 defamation of "character, an’d heaven e knows not what. He got the crodulpus motherC-oPthe girL-to .telegraph-to the fdther .in Auckland >lbat all was right., Tbe father land,-interviewed the Don Juan about his : daughter; The D.J. stoutly denied having seen her Ar- knowing ’ any thing abouP her;* The father told .him lie had -traced him to thei: hotel* in Auckland, and from thence to Napier, and at the same time 5 threatened him'with police proceedings, to which/the .abductor replied v that JicC. could go to the police, that he had vnot committed any crime, and that If he did -khow where the. girl, was he would not the father. The father communicated police,;who put ;him in the of recovering bis daughter, as it was known that the couple had; left Napier aS ; Mr and; Mrs Francis;for i Mastertonf, .where . the* gay' 'Lothario ; left his slipposed■ wife. ‘and‘ : returned to . Greatford. iBaJsT Monday .the fatherstarted for’Mgs-* .tertbn, and on his- way there found.Aiis daughter at Kketahuha; and returned "to’Marton, while the ypiihg'lady:WaS at Eketahiiha she said her husband had. gone to Rangitikei to.sell his business, and that they ! were then going to Christchurch. ’ ' '