A LIVELY WEDDING.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4907, 1 October 1884, Page 3

A LIVELY WEDDING.

It was the first marriage in high life since the gold was struck at Quartz Pinch, and the bridegroom had a full third of the best paying claim. The wedding took place at the leading hotel at half-past 8 p.m., and towards midnight the fun waxed furious. The M.D., who was champion pianist, declined to play a certain dance at the request of the local legal practitioner, the result being their going outside; but, owing to the rain, they selected for a settlement of their differences the room where the gifts to the bride were set out. To this place they were followed by the land-agent, who being regarded by the doctor as a partisan of the lawyer, he called both to come on, and after a rapid exchange was knocked over the table and came to the ground with a marble clock, a pile of eleclro- plate, and a full service of china from Brisbane. By the time the ex* tinguished lights had beea restored, an Irish brace-man sprang in with a defiant yell, remaiking that he had heard that some insulting language had taken place, that he was here to keep the peace and see justice done, which he forthwitk carried out by hitting the branch bank manager between the eyes. When assured that this gentleman was quite innocent, he apologised, as he selfapprovingly saiH, "like a gentleman." Just as the harmony had been restored '{and fresh drinks ordered), the doctor suddenly appeared in a loose dressing-gown, a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, expressing his courteous but firm resolve that the Jawyer'sbould take his choice of weapons and " finish the thing off properly." It was only after his being disarmed, placed in' bed, and, for prudential reasons, sat upon by three heavy men, that the dance was resumed. And that, indeed, was the last striking epjsode in the fashionable matrimonial alliance which had been arranged about a week before, and which bad ke-pt those diggings in a'simmer of excitement for three full days, as the editor of the Qnartz Pinch Trumpet gracefully explained. A participator in those festivities declares that there is in his account of them no exaggeration.—Australasian.