AN ELOPEMENT.
The Mount Ida Chronicle tells of a remarkable elopement from an important township in the north-west part of that county. The most peculiar thing about it, says our contemporary, is that the giddy pair are both married people ; neither can be much short of fifty ; and further, neither could ever possibly be selected by an artist, however mad, as a. ; model for a painting of Venus or Apollo. The Cod of love seems to have awakened a fiery and unhallowed flame in them at a very advanced period of their lives, for it must have been no ordinary attachment that induced an elderly man to desert his wife, and a grandmother to leave her husband and her children in such a manner as this. It is believed the lady went via Black’s and Lawrence 1 to Dunedin, while Adonis journeyed via Pigmot—taking with him, as a mark of esteem and gratitude, a horse belonging to a gentleman who hud befriended him for years, which he left at Palmerston. The guilty pair met in Dunedin, and the last that was heard of them was that they had left for the South, presumably with the intention of catching the steamer for Victoria, which was then about to sail from the Bluff.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 22 February 1881, Page 2
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211AN ELOPEMENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 22 February 1881, Page 2
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