HEIRESS ELOPES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 281, 11 July 1908, Page 7

HEIRESS ELOPES.

Mid-Cheshire has been set by IJie1 Ji e ears by the story of how an ] iress to £lO,OOO has married a humble carter. The parties mostly concerned have lived in the pretty little village of Weaverham, three miles from Northwich, all their lives. The lady (now Mrs Tomkinson) was formerly Miss Rebena Sherman Heath, daughter of Mr William Heath, who made a fortune in coffee planting in Brazil, and died about three years ago at an advanced age, after living in one of the largest houses in the neigh-/ bourhood for nearly half a century.' The other party to the strange romance, Arthur Tomkinson, is a carter at a local sawmill, his father being a farm hand. The young people —Tomkinson is only just twenty-one, and the lady two years younger —have known one another, at any rate by sight, all their lives, and though their stations in life were so far apart a warm friendship seems to have sprung up in recent years ; but the result has come without warning, and set every tongue

wagging. a A few clays ago Tomkinson walked into his home with the young lady, and announced that they were man and wife. They said that before daylight Miss Heath left her home unobserved, met her lover, cycled with him to a spot_where a vehicle was in waiting, and drove to Manchester, where their marriage, by special license, at once took place, afterwards taking up their abode with the bridegioom’s parents. At the age of twenty-one the young lady is to inherit £lO,OOO under her father’s will, and it is understood the marriage cannot effect this. She has received an excellent education at a London -school, and part of £2,000 left for this purpose was to have been expended on a finishing course abroad.