BRAVE GIRL'S ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 49, 23 March 1909, Page 2

BRAVE GIRL'S ROMANCE.

1 COURAGEOUS CONDUCT \ND INTERESTING SEQUEL. ' • •Behind a wedding announcement jmtt made in the London papers lies the sUcy of a brave girl's romantic wantage, which was brought about through Lloyd's News. ' On a Saturday night last March s young police constable was attacked by five drunken roughs in South London. Just then Miss Ethel Austin, who lived | m lentimim Road, Clnpham Road not

nir away, came along, and hurried to the rescue. First she snatched the constah e s whistle from the chain mid blew loudly, and then boldly grappled with a mini who had thrown the olliccr to the ground and was kneeling on hjs chest. He turned and attacked her violently dealing her a tcrriffic blow between tiioV eyes, lint although ilie plucky girl «•»« only li, she was nearly Oft' tall, and!

strongly built, and she managed tin hold! the man till a second policeman arriysi At the Westminister Police Court » the following Monday morning M t Jjr J ace Smith, the magistrate, comuMC'' .' r J

her pluck, nnil the Chief Comuuaw M afterwards sent her B cheoiu* 7 unt ' r [.letter of thanks. ' ''-"'d tt | The Btory was fully tola at Q ,- in Lloyd's Xews, and «u there l 0 ','?'

a successful t'aniidian settler M> r ? d 7 I .Simpson, of South MngnotawaiT ' n J ? sc P'' ISy years of hard work l,the £ T*"? >;• had made for ),i„„clf thouf the early thirties, K mv J ' h , Btn . lotion. He was he , Ser '™?, rrUblel f e South Magnqtawan, where he , "'" '* a hotel nnl« «„ «T" . now owns a i iiiei, aeu (is pOstmaste ,• a n<l i« sta.o,, wa ,ter at the statin, h(1 Z Be I'mll on the Canadian Pacil* . ]h,e

As soon as he read in Lit* d 's Vew. of Mm Austin he exclaimed* «"l « Canadian. artlA r .»a*. It mice wrote asking "uing that she was a* , >•„„„,, ,' seen, whose hoio'e w „ 8 „, „ an; sof lui | os , lW „ y „„,„ , t^^ 0 " Kilt eventuMlly she- nepi lied that if he niie ever m London, aniff eared to meet

ner, she w„,ld then tWiife , over the matAir Simpson also llwngftf over tho matter. On December KM . iic landed at Liverpool, and on the fofPmt ing day lie "nil taken lodgings at Cffiaph im, not Jar rom Miss Austin's homr, »™I -written to her parents for pernriswnv :(n ,eall. .Word. ugly, on Xew Year*,. Kve he jailed, lie was at oi* e . attracted bv (he charming young girt, off whom lie had not even sec, a photoftva,*. Shi On her pari was no less attrswt'od' liy tfche tall, good-looking Canadian. T* h'er .parent* | ].o showed excellent Ihglisli retort newfor he is a Yorkshiwman; and his I'ather and mother sldl live, at Hedale-nnt.' before long all was swfcfnetorilv arranft-cd. lhe -wedding toot place bv s n<Jc\al "•rase at St. .Mark's Chureh, 'Kenning.ton and a ter a short honeymoon inWkshiro the happy eouple are now on v their way to Ontario. Brief as W1 „ hi, - visit to England, Mr Simpson fo„nd time to write to Lloyd's Xews, telling the story of his romance.