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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9288, 24 April 1920, Page 5

i Not long ago a. Boer in 'Pretoria was married to «• girl in Amsterdam, the ceivmony constituting what: the Dutch will " hawdschoen," or glove marriage. In spitti of the fact that a distance vi 6000 miles separated the bride in the Netherlands and the bridegroom in the Transvaal, they were just as effectually married under the Dutch law as if both had been present in the same church. Tho bridegroom sent to his friend, or best man, in Amsterdam a power of attorney to represent- him as. his proxy at the ; . .eevfiniony. and at the same" time forwarded his plove, which' at the proner moment,, when the two wero made one, was "held by both the bride and the proxy. The ■ wsddinjr was duly registered at Amsterdam and ;it Pretoria, where the 'bridegroom filed an affidavit with the proper magistrate. Tilts curious form of marriage is a purely Dutch institution, the custom having originated, it is said, in tho old times of Dutch-Batavian ruin, [For Influenza, take 'Woods' Gr*vat Peppermint O«r«,-l/9 2/S