AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1120, 3 December 1883, Page 2

AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.

A Loving; Connie who thought they were married, hnt were not.

The.following curious story is told by a correspondent of the Rangitikei Advocate ; “ Daring my rambles lately I picked up the following peculiar stofy, •illustrating the primeval innocence of some people and the dilemmas excessive nervousness may lead to. At a certain place in the Provincial District of Wellington, an enamoured and verdant couple, wishing to complete their happiness by becoming one, proceeded to the office of the registrar to be married by him. The registrar was yonthful and of a nervous temperament, and this being the -first occasion, on which ho had been called upon to perform such an important ceremony, he somehow felt ah unconquerable dence in doing the work. Aflerentoring the necessary particulars, in His register book, be gave the bridegroom elect the marriage certificate, and requested the couple to go to the local minister to get married. The innocent doves misunderstood the registrar, and being under the fond delusion that they had been joined together in holy matrimony, went peacefully-cooing to their future home in blissful anticipation of the joys of the honeymoon.. . Some days after it leaked out that they had not been married, and their horror at discovering they had been living together in the sinful state well, unmarriedness, was scarcely equalled by the fright of the registrar, who broke into a cold perspiration while contemplating the result of palming off on another his own duties and responsibilities. Of course, the dire mishap was rectified as speedily as possible by the parson performing the ceremony ; but it remains for the injured and innocent parties chiefly concerned to ‘ go for ’ that registrar, and to call upon him to ‘ show cause ’ why he should not be severely castigated for inducing them to assume the position of man and wife without being legally entitled thereto.’’