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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2191, 24 July 1886, Page 2

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[I'HOV Ol U OWN' CORUH-«PONnENT.I Tu.i'o, Ftiday Night. Dfnis Mi*kph\, chaiged by the Hamilton police with cattle-stealmg, vv«v* cleverly captured near Kananga by Constable Pesjley, of T.uipo. He was brought before the R.M. Court this morning, and remanded to Hamilton.

Ax Unpopular Weeding. — An extraordinary scene occurred at a v.eddingat Portsmouth, on Wednesday. A Mr Manner, a grocer at Lai.dport, o\ j'ears of age, whose wife had died as recently as March last, left his residence with a girl named Elizabeth Lock, about 17 years of age, and who had formerly been in hist employ as a domestic servant, and the pair proceeded iv a carriage with postillions in blue to St. Thomas's church, for the purpose of being married. The neighbours had closed their shutters and drawn their blinds, while some of the tradesmen had hung out mounng boards and bows ami boards of crape. A crowd assembled in the street, and tiie pair were pelted with decayed oranges and apples, and other offensive missiles. Outside the church they were hootedl and hissed by another crowd, and on thereturn journey after the service they were similarly greeted. Meanwhile the bridegroom's son had proceeded to place a mourning wreath on his mother's grave. Agre.it deal of e\cit^ment ptcvailed in the stieeN, and tialhc was temporarily suspended. A Cm man, i»f .i vi>iy practical turn of mind, to >k hi-, daughter t,> the Lyceum with him to *cc "Ohu.t ' The young lady, win) \\,is deeply intrusted m the pathetic, hi-toiy of the heii> and heiome, could not reli.un from tens. Her father, unable to ap|Hiei.iteMiche\tiemt > <enMtivene>«., pulled her b\ the sleeve and s.ud : "Don't cry like that. They've nothing to complain about. They're making a nice bit of money out of it." Information* Foil thf Pkoi-kvnok.— old Pn>fe>M>r Unsaway, one in^ht h-t week, w,i> distinbed by the ringing «.f hi» door bel>. Hastily enveloping hi-, ffgiue in A dicssing gown, he thiew open a window, and, sticking out hi> lwad, .i-ked what vva* the eau*e of the di-tmh.mce. "The burglars are bad, and we only wanted to tell you th.it one nt your window-, l^ open."" " Which one .'" he asked .invions'v. " Theone you have got your head stuck out oorf r Profca&ui," replied iliu students m choms.