A KAIPARA ROMANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 430, 21 December 1889, Page 5

A KAIPARA ROMANCE.

A vtiw days ago an incident took place which caused great excitement among the Kaipara Head natives. Recently two comely damsels, sisters, one of them married, accompanied by a brother, came from Waikato to visit some friends in this settlement. During their sojourn two native swells came fre&h from the gumfields with pockets full of money, and there and then began to pay their addresses to the two strangers. By eoft words, sly looks and other endearing blandishments peculiar bo the amours of both Maoris and Europeans, deep and lasting impressions wore mado on the tender hearts of the two .sisters, which ended in plighting their tioths to the gumfield swarthy swaius. The course of true love never as yet ran smoothly, and it was exemplified in this particular instance, for the one was engaged to be married to % wdl-to do Maori farmer, and the other 12 months ago stood before the altar, nndthcrosolemnly promised that she would love, honour and obey her Waikato lord until death did them part. The love smitten swains made lightly of these obstacles ; they would fly to the" far North, and there would get matried in defiance of law and justice. "Oh ! frailty, thy name is woman !" be she black, brown or white, who would have acted the part of this weak manied damsel; for in the middle of the night sho snatched the child from the maternal bosom and cast it into a corner of the whare, indifferent to its fate, dressed, and repaired with her sister to the place of rendezvous, where the amorous swains awaited anxiously with horses ready saddled and bridled to bear away their prizes. The loud cries of the poor child were tho first intimation given of the nup lial flight to the brother and his friends. Aroused to the utmost indignation, the natives pioceided to tho telegraph office to see if they could procure a warrant for their apprehension, but as such could not be obtained they Bent telegrams to the police at Dargaville and to Mr Stunner, Rawene, entreating them to intercept the fugitives and prevent the marriages. After earnest consultation a hob pursuit was determined upon, bub up bill now bheie is nob the slightest trace as to what direction the fugitives had taken. The natives were very much di&appointed that warrants could not be obtained in the district, and although nob very essential in this case, there have been several instances (wiites our coi respondent), where people have been pub to great inconvenience in not being able to obtain the services of a Justice of the Peace, and this points greatly to the necessity of the officer in charge of the Customs holding such an office.