MARRIAGE OF MR G. A. SALA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 5

MARRIAGE OF MR G. A. SALA.

Qua London correspondent, writing under date January 31st, says.: “ The announcement in Monday morning’s papers of the marriage of Mr Sala to his attractive and intelligent private secretary, Miss Bessie Stannard (better known as Madame Caralampi), was a greater surprise to the public and his general acquaintances than to the bride and bridegroom’s intimate friends. These have seen how things were going for a considerable time, and predicted Saturday’s ceremony ever since Madame Caralampi disposed of an awkward obstacle some months back by divorcing her first husband. Sala’s eyesight (never .good) has latterly become so bad as to oblige him to dictate all his work to an amanuensis. Madame Caralampi was the first of a series to really suit him. Besides being a rapid stenographer, she i 3 herself a journalist of experience, and soon became indispensable to G. A. S. The pair, nob wishing to be gaped at, kept their engagement and Saturday’s ceremonyadeadsecret. MissStannard is a daughter of Mr Robert Stannard, C.E., and sister-in-law to the buxom dame who invented the immortal “ Booties ” and desires to pass as “ Jno. Strange Winter.” Mrs Arthur Stannard could not be present on Saturday, having fallen a victim to the “sneeze fiend,” bub she sent her congratulations. The second Mrs Sala, though many many years younger than her neyv husband, is what ladies call “of a certain age,” and in other respects the union seems promising and appropriate. Despite his appearance, G.A-S. has always been eminently of a domestic turn. The death of his first wife crushed him utterly, in fact, manv feared he would follow her forthwith.” .