A Rajah Marrying an English Girl.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2963, 30 July 1888, Page 2

A Rajah Marrying an English Girl.

_" At the studio of h youug portrait; ; ; V ; V painter" (says a London correspondent) ;,'.' "I saw a picture which was very. '''- ; >.V;i curious iu its subject, It contained two upright figures one that of a swartliy. '/■'.; ;;, Indian-Rajah,covored with jowols and V :' ;' wearing the. Star of ludia upon his }*&;'•[■ bi-enst; the. other a tall and 'English, girl. of. about-.eighteen,,m ai|pß pink dress, hoi* hair gathered behind itribbon and falling loose' again. •'• The; Bajah is; stoiliiig the'isriiie of -prot'd possessorship, and the girl is iookirig with a somewhat bewildered air at her; X; ; ; 'future lord; They are tworeal people. HX Sin; is tlio daughter of'an English '" ■p: chemist/ arid her parents have ;consen-K j ted to lifer .'marriage with the Kajah,,; : : -iffi who, iifccr the'.marriage ceremony; will; ,X:.-■. take her out to his dominions. If the i : ' H'-f picture succeeds in being ; exhibited it '■'•" •■' , is sure to 'cause a sensation, and many may he the warnings uttered as to the risk which Lbo lady runs in view of tiie ruling, recently laid down by Mr J ustico Stirling in the caso of the marriage of dommamler Bethell ami Miss Teepoo. One instance of such a marriage between Cliristiuninaid and Pngau man is very well : known, and lias turned out li decided success, L A Miss King, the daughter of a govcr- ,W ; ' nor of an English gaol, married about lli irteon years ago the 'Sbercef of Oran , ' ' who is tho spiritual head ol the Em- , / jiiia of Morocco. The Slioroef, who is a> 4# > ducendaut of tho Prophet, on marrying 1' Miss King, renounced all his other wives, whom he lodged in an asylum at Tradgier, which it is part of his duly to keep up for refugees of tho secular power; and he, moreover, gave to his ' son' by his Christian wife the Sacred Stick, the possession of which at the time of tho Sherecfs death detoi mines tho'succession among, his children to liis taeii'd office.and great possessions,"

■ A Pathetic Story. Tho following sublimely pathetic story lias only one fault-it is.trmv A Hawkcs Bay lady who recently, went ■■' Home via the Suez Canal went into a. • shop at Port Said to purchase somo tins of condensed milk. After buyins; tliein she asked tho shopkeeper for eomo potted bloater. " Madame," said tho obsequious dealer, "I have somo,/. but it is noigood. If you will call"it)| tlie shop higher up the street, kept, by;'-* M.~, you will he able to ob'foin some really excellent goods," Struck with ■* such rare and. commendable honesty.. the My paid for the milk, thanked her candid informant, and' went. to, the ', other shop, After purchasing the potted bloater tho parcel containing tho ' milk was opened, so that all might bo •: dono up in one package, . The shop-V! keeper saw tho tins of niiik, and withi'.: a low W said, " Excuse me niadame,. : hut did you buy those tins of milk at",' the shop down the street ?" "Idid, 1 '"; replied the lady. "I am groviously ■,'■'. afflicted,'madamc," said tho shopkeeper < "as I feel sure they are bad., Tho''' propriotor of' that shop has • already P plundered travellers by foisting upon ■;S them tins of milk from a shipwrecked, ; : cargo. Allow me to open a tin. Tho::? lady consented to this and'aura enough' the contents of tho tin wcrehad,' As the ; v steamer had to he reached, by a given' :4 time the lady bought.sonio'; more • tins : of milk, leaving the other bad onestoV:-! he thrown .away: by the' The rest may be ;guesseA last purchase proved bad and; when; S3 some of tlie passengers compared notes '$ it was found that several had The chief engineer heaid'tlw'stbfy, and explained it, as ho ';|y The two honest shopkeepers "werei ?inf£ partnership, and had purchased ':Msi milk between thora at an auction ofsalvoije,'