HASTE TO A WEDDING.
A most romantic courtship came to a happy climax in Philadelphia on Monday, June 29th, when Lieutenant William Fortescue Sells, of H.M.S. Wildfire, married Mrs Alice Augusta Bayley. Lieut. Sells had only two weeks’ leave in which to make the Atlantic passage, marry his waiting fiancee, and return to duty on his ship. Accordingly he hurrried on board the Campania, which'arrived in America on June 27, and arranged to sail back with his bride to England on the same vessel the following Tuesday. The romance commenced in the Lieutenant’s boyish days, when he was a friend of Miss Alice Cornish, then a little lassie in the Isle of Wight, where her home adjoined that of the lieutenant’s parents. At eighteen, however, she married Colonel Bayley, commanding a crack English cavalry regiment, and eventually went abroad. A few years afterwards Colonel Bayley was accidentally killed on a rifle range. At the end of a year Lieut. Sells pressed his ’suit and was at last accepted. The widow went to America and lived in Philadelphia with her brother.
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Waipukurau Press, Issue 301, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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180HASTE TO A WEDDING. Waipukurau Press, Issue 301, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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