A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

A rich young Frenchman named Montane, after a Gretna Green marriage w hj a pretty English girl, took her to is Parisian home to spend the honeymoon. All went well in spite of Montane’s very eccentric disposition, until the appearance on the scene of his mother, who insisted that the marriage was not binding in France, and that the girl be sent ho ne. Then Henry and Julia quarrelled, and she was taken before a magistrate and sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment for trying to shoot him. From the evidence given in court by seven witnesses testifying under oath it appeared that Montane had all the electric bells in the house removed on the arrival of himself and bride, and replaced them with revolvers, rifles and cannons. A complete arsenal was established on each floor of the mansion. A six-pounder brass cannon fired once summoned the butler, fired twice, the cook, and three times, the coachman. Five discharges of a revolver in rapid succession brought the chambermaid. Seven shots meant the chambermaid with hot water. No candles were allowed to be blown out, but were extinguished by pistol shots. All the servants were provided with revolvers. From morning to night there was constant cannonading and revolver shots.