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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1016, 24 December 1881, Page 4

It is announced in the columns of the Anglo-Indian press that His Highness the Nawab of Gondal contemplates entering the holy state of matrimony no fewer than seven several and distinct times in the course of the present month. He has chosen seven youthful and lovely brides from among the daughters of the Condal aristocracy, and has made arrangements to lead them to the altar, one after another, upon seven successive days. It will be the pleasing duty of each bride, progressively and in regular rotation, to attend the weddings celebrated subsequently to her own, so that the first lady of the series will enjoy the unusual privilege of witnessing seven nuptial ceremonials, in all of which she will be more or less interested, within the limits of a single week. The sevenfold bridegroom, however, obviously a student of feminine peculiarities, and wisely desirious to avert future domestic troubles such as might well arise from jealousies founded upon any unequal distribution of his favours among the members of this conjugal heptagon, has bestowed upon ail his brides wedding dresses and ornaments of identical material, design, and value. The rooms they are destined to occupy in his palace are all furnished exactly alike ; and the accident of seniority, as regards the mere date of their respective marriage ceremonies, is not to carry with it any precedence at Court. It appears not to have been as yet finally decided whether the Nawab, at the expiration of his wedding-week, shall attempt to spend seven honeymoons at once, or take them successively. This is the only official detail of his prospective bliss that has not been definitely settled to the satisfaction, as we understand, of himself, his seven brides, and the Gondal public in general.— Home News, July 19.