A MATCH-MAKING DOCTOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2122, 17 October 1885, Page 2

A MATCH-MAKING DOCTOR.

In the course of an examination of a bankrupt named Needham at Manchester the other day, says the London correspqndent qf t]ie Bunedin Sfar, some strange facts transpired with regard to a Dr Batson or Bateson, who, it seems, has recently betaken himself to New Zealand. Needham was affording information with regard to certain entries in his pash hook, Presently counsel came tp a spi qf £145, wljich the bankrupt declared that he had paid Dr Batson uncjer the notion that he wag to receive £I,OOO for jt, Thjs £I,OOO w a § tlje fortune pf p. certain voqng lady in Ireland, a H clear little Tpttje," l iyho had oeside? £3OO niQre. The doctor, lie said, promised the gjrl tp him ! f he would advance Ll5O, as an of his intentions ; go hp handed the qaph over. After tins transaction he proposed to the young lady, and was told to wait three months, Tho girl was a friend of the doctor's, and he had proposed to her two or three times, but had been refused. He (Needham) met her, together with her father and the doctor, 011 a sea voya?e to Ireland. On arrival at Dublin they invited him down to their place, where the doctor made such violent love to buy h'im ; 'or ■wifK ijijlie banliupt and Tottie soon' quarrelled! " It 'was an love affair. The doctor went fe'M ly'itj) t]ie'L}4s." go'liac] set up pfactjce, anc} waij cjf)iug well.' Gould not say jf Tqttie hajj'follqwejl ljim'; hut thought it quite lively, himself broken off relation with the lady six month? ago, Admitted the traisaqtion with Batson was a hazardous ono, but had thought he would be making good money by marrying the girl.