CUPID’S TRIUMPH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8859, 9 July 1907, Page 1

CUPID’S TRIUMPH.

Nuptial knots have been tied at times in strange places and under peculiar conditions, but the place chosen for a wedding which lias just taken place was perhaps unique, the ceremony being performed on board a tug boat in the Firth of Forth, not far from Leith. The contracting parties were Norwegians, the bridegroom, Captain Olson, being skipper of the steamer Unimak, while the bride was a lady named Miss Hausen. Miss Hausen, who is young and pretty, travelled all the way from Norway to take her place beside the bridegroom, but at the last moment it was discovered that the Scottish law forbade a marriage in Scotland unless the contracting persons had resided 31 days in the country. This was the difficulty which had to be faced, but “necessity is the mother of invention, ’ ’ and the parties succeeded in overcoming the obstacle which presented itself in the way of their immediate union. They hired a local tug, aud along with some friends, including the chief mate and chief engineer of the skipper’s vesesl aud a Norwegian minister, they steamed out to the Firth of Forth, .whore the knot was duly tied.