AN INTERESTING EVENT.
The following is from a Dunedin contcinporary :—“ A marriage of a kind as yet rare in Otago took place yesterday. The parties to the contract Avere a dashing young Chinaman, engaged in market gardening and selling cabbage and lettuce, and a European, a blooming young damsel of tAventy summers, whose beauty, it is presumed, had touched the tender heart that beat beneath an Asiatic skin. It may he stated that yesterday forenoon two carriages dashed up to the Registrar’s office. From them, surrounded by an admiring croAvd, stepped forth the bridegroom, bride, bridesmaids, and groomsmen. The bride, the bridesmaids, and a European groomsman Avere dressed in orthodox wedding costume, and, altogether “ elegantly got up.” The bridegroom, and tAvo Chinese groomsmen Avere equally resplendent. They entered the Registrar’s office, the crowd forming a guard of honor along the passage leading thereto, and before the Registrar, Mr Street, the knot was tied. The deed being done, they entered the carriages and drove off. Later in the day the house of the happy pair Avas literally beseiged by iutrusive youngsters, avlio, uninvited, came to congratulate them upon the event.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 44, 27 November 1871, Page 3
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189AN INTERESTING EVENT. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 44, 27 November 1871, Page 3
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