ROMANTIC COURTSHIP.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9103, 24 March 1908, Page 6

ROMANTIC COURTSHIP.

ENGAGED FOR THIRTY YEARS. New Bedford, February 4. Now that he is worth over £20,000, Charles W. Read has fulfilled the promise made to himself while a youth, aud was married in Boston to Miss Elizabeth Williams, after a courtship that has lastedfjover thirty vear. Mr Read, who ;is j'now !: fiftyfive, fell in love with Miss Williams before he was twency-five. Miss Wiliams was a wealthy young woman when she was first courted bv Mr Read. So strong was the youth’s pride that he determined to. have a fortune of his own as large as Miss Williams’s before he would ask her to be his wife. Through the death of his uncle, Warren A. Potter, of the firm of Weeks and Potter, of Boston, Mr Read’s mother was left over £200,000. It has been only recently, that the Potter estate £has been divided, and Mr Read’s mother, realisng that her son and daughters could expect nothing until her death, decided to give each of them £20,000 outright.