COLONIAL ROMANCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1368, 21 July 1885, Page 3

COLONIAL ROMANCE.

The element of romance is rarely present in the local Court proceedings, says an Adelade paper, but the matter-of-fact routine waa relieved the other day by the introduction of a case in which there was something singular, if not actually romantic. A young lady who had commenced her career of usefulness as a school pupil teacher, and rose to be head mistress of a model school, bad, according to her own showing, saved sufficient money to buv a pony and trap, a piano, and other luxuries, besides putting money in the Savings Bank, living meanwhile happily with her parents, But she was honorably wooed and won by a sanitary plumber, and married him without the consent of her parents, who thereupon, to mark their displeasure, confiscated her horse and other belongings . She invoked the law, and sued her parents in the Adelaide local Court for £92, damages for illegal detention of the property, The evidence was of a most contradictory character, and its complexion seemed strongly to favor Mr Symon’s Abolition of Oaths Bill. The plaintiff positively swore that the things were hers, while the parents as positively persisted that they bought them out of the family funds. The most curious part of the case was the plaintiff’s contention that the receipts for payment made by her and left at home had been taken by her mother to the person from whom the buggy was bought, and made out in the old lady’s name to substantiate her claim as against her daughter’s ; and this was to soma extent corroborated by the vendor himself. The Court came to the conclusion that the preponderance of evidence was in favor of the plaintiff, and gave judgment for £7O, to be reduced to £3O on return of a piano, part of the property sought to be recovered.