RUNAWAYS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 1

RUNAWAYS

Bride and Groom On the Aorangi ROMANCE ON HIGH SEAS On March 12 Mr. Basil Lamon Stanley first caught a glimpse of Miss Evelyn Anderson \n romantic Honolulu Defying superstition an<l a hymn of hate sung by Miss Anderson's parents they were married the following day—March 1.1. On March 14 the bride and bridegroom embarked on the Aorangi more or less as stowaways. Mr. Stanley, aged 32, Is a university football coach, who has had a varied career among the colleges of the Western States of America. The bride is an heiress. Her father is said to possess a fortune of something like TCo.OOO dollars, which he made as a sugar-planter in Hawaii. Yesterday, when the Aorangi arrived at Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley were among the third-class passengers—perfectly happy and apparently enjoying the publicity of a runaway match. They had no passports and very little money. An interview' with a detective followed and in all probability the happy couple will be taken <>n to Sydney and back to Honolulu to meet the bride’s irate parents. Mr. Stanley refers to his wife as “his little stowaway for life.” When the decision was made known that ih© couple was to go on to Sydney he , replied that he was quite satisfied with life on board the Aorangi. “It ' would do him.” he said. Love at first sight swept the young 1 couple off their feet, so they said j yesterday. Bach seemed irresistible 1 |° the other, so they decided at the £ Bt niinute to leave hurriedly for Xew Zealand, where Mr. Stanley hoped to set work. The day after the marriage they 'lashed aboard the Aorangi. The bridegroom hurried up the gangway i with baggage in each hand; the bride) lolloiyjed minus a trousseau. Don’t worry me now. I’m in a great i ‘lurry,” said Mr. Stanley to the officer | w «o demanded their tickets at the 1 gangway. Once on board the runaways made themselves very comfortable in a j second-class cabin, and rather con- | spicuous by arriving half an hour late tor meals. The lavish affection they bestowed j °n each other on the deck did not tneet with the approval of *he other i passengers. th Wl !? n the sh *P was three days out ne tickets were demanded and Mr. c °nfefesed the truth. With | ne 142 “bucks” with which he pos- I he paid for his wife's fare in j ne third-class and sent urgent cables „ “ er Parents, who maintained a "’ ) ny silence . A n appeal yesterday to the Amer- ! ■fan Consul, .Mr. Walter Boyle, pro- | ced no effect, as neither Mr. nor j Stanley is in possession of a j Passport. Meantime love's young dream is i yei sg exploited by the runaways, but Amv PaSSen&ers are not sympathetic, j PPcrently the prospect of joining the notv 0t the unemployed means j • ns to them —but parents somerelent.