"PLEASE MARRY US."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 10 January 1907, Page 3

"PLEASE MARRY US."

DRAMATIC SURPRISE FOR v MIiDICAL BIUDECROOM. There was a dramatic scene at the Fulhain registrar's ofliee recently. Two happy, smiling lovers came forward to be married, never anticipating any opposition, but destiny, which took the shape of a solicitor and fortified itself with that most tremendous of documents—a. caveat—intervened, and the romance for the time beiii" is held up.

The narrative is really a utory of hansom cabs, separated by iUI i„t o . r . v:i 1 of five minutes.

First drove up the lovers-tho man a pleasant-faced Irish student, the woman a pretty, lair-laced Irish "ill of 20. Accompanying them was a «cutleman, who had arranged to act" -is witucs to the mnrri?""

The young couple blushed as they filC'd Hi,. registrar, !]„,„ took coura-e at heart anil exclaimed: "Please marry us." There was a rustling „f papers, the registrar preparing tl.« necessary question, whim 'suddenly W as h( ,. m[ , the hard road outside the rattl,. 0 f a second hansom, followed by tlie onl.i.V »f destiny, or rather tin: solicitor. In a Jew words the newcomer explained |,lie meaning „, |1„, i„) rusion. Hi; was sorry to cause, •.uiymrplca-ahL-»e.-,s, but lie hud a duty l.<> ■ form. ,1y cable he had received instructions from tlie intending bridegrooms mo Hier, owing to iiie bridegroom being I'"' I ''" »!-"'■ U > «H> ' Marriage, ami '" I"-'"'""''* "Mi/.KI a, painful'silence '■'"■ lln ' ; '; 1 '''y I ' ll - |i1 "" fi/'v.isiu,,, i,is reasons lor objecting to the eei^onv An expression of blank dismay crept over Hi,, lovers' faces as they V, {|i,.j, hones blasted. i "