MARRIAGE UNDER DIEFICULTIES.
A disturbance look place nt amarriagc in a Methodist chapel at Haiiley recently An old man of seventy, with several grown-up children and grand-children, had arranged to be married to a girl eighteen years old. On tho party arriving' at tne chapel they were attacked by a mob and their clothes were torn. Ten policemen were present, but wore overpowered, and the mob rushed into the chapel, and kept up a continual noise throughout the ooremory. A window was broken and a great disturbance followed. The married pair finally escaped by different doors, and were escorted homo by eight constables.
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 47, 24 August 1878, Page 3
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103MARRIAGE UNDER DIEFICULTIES. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 47, 24 August 1878, Page 3
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