AN ELOPEMENT TO AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1398, 29 September 1885, Page 1

AN ELOPEMENT TO AUCKLAND.

The Cambridge (England) Independent Press of June the 27th had the following about a case which has already been mentioned :—“ By the arrival of the New Zealand steamer Kaikoura, which reached Plymouth on Saturday morning, we have positive information of the whereabouts of Mr ]?. Tredgett, who eloped from Cambridge on March the 11th with Miss Constable, a girl who bad assisted in Tredgett’s shop, As is wellknown to our readers, Tredgett left behind him a devoted wife and no less than ten children. It appears from the ship register that they embarked on the 12th March at Gravesend, calling themselves Mr and Mrs E, Turner, and they went out in the second saloon of the above steamer. Tredgett paid upwards of £9O for the tickets, and was very lavish during the voyage to the under stewards. Be informed fcis fellow-passengers and the officers of the steamer that he was just married and that be did not approve of early marriages ! £As a matter of fact he was married at Eden Chapel at the age of 19] and that his ‘travelling wife ’ had immediately fallen into an interesting state. He also stated that his father had died, and that, after carrying on with bis brother his late (?) father’s business they had mutually divided the business and that he intended to start abusiness ns nurseryman etc., at Auckland, New Zealand, if there was a chance of doing so. His ‘travelling wife’ won golden opinions from her fellow passengers, and the elegance and variety of her toilet excit“d considerable comment. Tredgett did not command any special mark of attention fr< m his fellow passengers, and his inordinate jealousy of his inamorata repelled any advancis which might have been made to him. In the tropic-, upon one glorious night, a fancy dross ba’l was hold, which , the principal officers of the. vessel and the fir>t, and second saloon passengers attended. Mr Tredgett assumed the charaetir of Borneo, while of course Miss Constable affected Juliet. ‘Mr and Mrs E. 'furrier’ represented that they had been reared in affluent circumstances, and they evidently had ‘ well feathered ’ themselves before leaving England, for they had a considerate quantity of heavy luggage. They landed at Wellington, New Zealand, on April 28th, and took the branch' boat for Auckland.”