AN ELOPEMENT TO AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2

AN ELOPEMENT TO AUCKLAND.

The Cambridge (England) IndependenPress of June 27th had the following about a cuse which has already been mentioned:—"By the arrival of.the New Zealand steamer Kaikoura, which reached Plymouth on Saturday morning, we have positive informationof the whereabouts of Mr E. Tredgett, who eloped from Cambridge on March the 11th, with Miss Constable, a girl who had assisted in Tredgett's shop;' As is well known to our readers, Tredgett left behind him a devoted wife and no less than ten children. It appears from the ship register that they embarked on the 12th of Maroh at Gravesend, calling themselves Mr and Mrs E. Turner, and they went out in the second saloon of the above steamer. Tredgett paid upwards of £9O for the tickets, and was very lavish during the voyage to the under stewards. He informed his fellow passengers and the officers of the steamer that he was just married, and that he did not approve of early marriages I [As a matter of fact, he was married at Eden Chapel at the age of nineteen], and that his 'travelling wife' had immediately fallen into an interesting state. He also stated that his father had died, and that, after carrying on with his brother his late (?) father's business, they had mutually divided the business, and that he intended to start, a business as nurseryman, &c., at Auckland, New Zealand, if there was a chance of doing bo, His 'travelling wife' won golden opinions from her fellow passengers, and his inordinate jealousy; of his inamorata repelled any advances which, might have been made to him. In the tropics, upon one glorious nighty a fancy dress ball was held, which the principal officers of the vessel, and the first and second saloon officers attended. ,Mr Tredgett assumed..the character of Romeo, while, of course, Miss Constable affected Juliet. " Mrand Mrs E. Turner" represented that they had been reared in affluent circumstances, and they evidently had "well feathered" themselves before leaving England, for they had a considerable quantity of heavy luggage. They landed at Wellington, New Zealand, on April 28th, and took the branch boat for Auckland;"