ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 683, 3 February 1881, Page 2

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

(Taranakl News.)

In the early days of the settlement a : young Cornish lad named John fell in love' with a Cornish maiden named Margaret, and in process of time the two determined to get married. The Wealeyaa missionary tied-the knot in a homely sort of way. John could not read, and signed -. with a cross; Margaret was no scholar, and signed the marriage with a cross j their two witnesses were illiterate, and • also signed with crosses; and the parson • forgot to attach his name to the docu- L went, The wedded pair went forth and • commenced the business of married life. They were both sobor and industrious, but Margaret having by. far the moat brain :.. power was master. They had a small and fertile'farm near the mouth of the Waiwakaiho, ; pow, alas, covered with sand, v where they depastured their cows and pigs, kept their poultry, made their butter, cut their hay, and grew their vegetables aud fruits, Carts were luxuries in those day? that only Hie wealthy oould indulge in, but Margaret, nothing daunted, and strong and' willing to work and succeed, drove her butter to market in a wheelbarrow, and'drove"'home in the' 'same... vehicle goods necessary for her houßehold,\, ■• while John was out earning money and ':>..• while'the elder children shepherded the l babfe's, The lease of'their little farm ex- ' niring, and having saved a little money, '. these' industrious ppople rerpoved'to \Vanr gariiiij'and there they became possessed ■■■■' of property which jb now worth about £7OOO. We are sorry to say that the.* Happiness of this pair did not keep pace with the increase of their wealth. A few ■ years ago they separated, John returning to Cornwall ond Margaret staying at Wfip. , ganui. Recently it came to Margaret's. .< ears that John was comfortably settled '■ -' ; near to Bodmin, that he had taken Jo.?:. himself another wife, and that he was v-getting-around him another family who would probably be made the possessors of the wealth that Margaret had so diligently labored:to help him to obtain. After .. r hearing this news the energetio Margaret could not rest. . The idea of another wopi) and another woman's children reapine the res'uUs'of her life-Ibng'lafcors to the deprivation of her own children was more than she could bear. She ac . cordingly paida brief visit to New Ply. mouth to gather together the scanty proofs of her marriage to John, and departed by the last Bteamer en route to.England. In '' three mouths hence what a happy meet-.'-ing there will be in the neighborhood of. ■•' o; Bodrni[),