EXTRAORDINARY INTERRUPTION OF A WEDDING IN WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1669, 25 April 1884, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY INTERRUPTION OF A WEDDING IN WELLINGTON.

What certainly appears, on tho face of it, to be a; case-of,tl)o most, tjipj roughly unprincipled conduct on the' part of., a/bridegroom. that; could /well bo imagined, is reported'to''have Occurred in' Wellington yesterday.' The facts as narrated to us aro as i follows:—Some time ago a young man who has been employed as' a clerk-in an offico in Wellington became' acquainted with thq daughter of a much: respected settler in this city. ; /After a short time, he began to pay her marked/ attention, and finally proposed tp t ler,l and was accepted. .Wo;areinforme,d' that he then ,rep'resehted''tliat/ i'uj addition to the income from his! appointment,; he)■;was ..possessed'. o£j considerable landed property in I(OU-{ don, and that.lll,ooo' had been left! him as alegacy. Everything appeared! to go on all righjvand, in! due 'cqnrse,j the wedding was.fixed to take place atj

the parents' house (it 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Tho bridegroom, it ia said, explained to the young lady and her parents that immediately after the wedding ho intended that they should leave for Melbourne en route for England, to Bee about his " property,"' and he requested his father -in - law to endorse a bill for J4OO to provide the •■. necessary funds, but this the father—prudently, as events showed—declined to do. .Every preparation, hpwevor, for the journey was made by the young lady's' parents,'' her boxes 1 ' b&ng- carefully packed .with every requisite for a long voyage. Tho young man also explained that he had arranged for the attendance of a clergyman at the hour named,'that-he ; had ; erigaged a number'; of cabs for the occasion, and had secured passages by the Wanaka, leaving for the South in tho afternoon. According to our information,;he also, actually got labels and addressed tho lady's boxes for the projected voyage. Yesterday morning a sumptnous wedding breakfast was duly provided, tho table being very handsomely set out; the guests arrived at the house; but when, the appointed hour,; came there ! was no appearance either* of the,cabs, '■ the clergyman,-or the bridegroom. ' ; When half past ten arrived,, and.still ! no.sigp: ofthesG indispengible adjuncts 1 was visible, the,suspicions'! oj l some of | the young •lady's'owh friends became ! aroused, .and they proceeded to,make investigations/ On inquiring at tho office where the young man;had been employed, they.found that the only information to be gleaned there was that he had been dismissed from his appointment, and on going to tho shipping offices they found that no ticket, had been taken out as alleged, Of course • the .party was abruptly broken up, and it is needless to refer to tho painful scene that ensued. It is also unnecessary to comment on the facts as thus disclosed. In the,, absence of any.explanation, the amount of heartlessness displayed seems to bo absolutely incredible;; and no language could be too strong to denounce the -y outrage, and no punishment too severe for such an unmanly scoundrel. It only remains to add that the greatest " sympathy is felt with the parents, who ■' are'deservedly held in high estimation in tho city, and also with the young lady.. It is felt, however, that the' latter, under the : circumstances, has reason to be congratulated on bavin" escaped a union which could only havo resulted in misery.—Evening Post.