AN INTERESTING COURTSHIP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1975, 27 April 1885, Page 2

AN INTERESTING COURTSHIP.

Some amusing facta regarding Mrs Weldon's courtship and marriage were elicited at the trial of that lady's action against her husband to compel him to make a settlement in her favor, After several witnesses liadbeen examined, Mrs Weldon gave evidence, She said she was' married on April 21st, 1800. Mr Weldon' was introduced to her in 1858 as a manworth £SOOO a year, He was considered; "a great catch." He fell in love with her, and she with him. Her' father, whose estates were near Brighton, aaid y that Mr' Weldon' must n'ot. come ."to tb&j ■• house unless he agreed to marry 'one .of; the daughters," Afterwards Mr Weldon'" said he had only £2OOO a year, it:'then i appeared that he had only £IOOO a .yea;; on coming of age, but. he had £2OOO : on; the death of his grandmother. Mrs-" Treherae, hor mother, told her £2OOO. a", year was beggary, and £IOOO a year starvation. In 1859 they met again,. and' exchanged vows of eternal' love. AftA wards he wrote to her and said that vff less she married him there was nothing for. him bu.t to get JcjUed. jn fog,.' M wished, to marry him, but did not"'Beg; I}qw they were to live on nothing., ' Hef : '' friends were against fcjie, p%e. aj jjhf was then yerf'prefty, and might jiava niade a good marriage. She then thought, of earning money by singjiig; 's]}e' wrfitg' tp Mr- Weldon prpposing'to do this, Mts Weldon then read a voluminous correspondence botween. herself and her hus= band relative tfl Jievgeing fin the .stag L- ,- said that she should not read all the,'' letters, as there were about 500, On' 5 April 21st, 1860, sjie said, they were married, She gavo up going on the stage at the request of Mr Weldon. They lived for four years on £l2O a year, she keeping the accounts. Mr Weldon pro* mised to make a post-nuptial settlement . on her of £BOO a year, but had notf declined to do so. In one of her letters, which was produced, she described Mr Weldon as TO k, hypochondria acal, imbecile,! 7 ami in anf>p}iWr ghe '\vr(iVe ■ thaj; # npw understood wily her husband wanted to shut her up in a lu.iJfe assyhmi, as " a man who wrote letters to her nmsjt h B m ad," It may ho added that tho present action was dis. missed, with costs against Mrs Weldon,