THE POWER OF LOVE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 457, 28 June 1871, Page 2

THE POWER OF LOVE.

CHArTBB n. ' v.„ • A ' J Our readers will be inferesteiito'khoW;l the events subsequent to^he little romance i related by usi in our issue of%esteJrday.J We should state that therivals stand ifflf the follovring to the fair enslaver. | The person who risked his life for love is | a former jlbyer, the other the husband in, legal possession. On the disappearance of the man over the side of the vessel, for he .. had veiritably thrown himseilf over board, his companion stood transfixed with horror or stupified with drink,,or both- together, .but: seemingly unable to make up hisZi mind about the; state of. affairs. ,As J the most sen-; sible step to be taken in the circumstances, he went and had, a sleep, on, awakening., from which his mind.at once, look in the state of the case, and he ] related to his fellow;, passengers how his wife had caressed and kissed his false friend at parting on the wharf, and ikat it was that kiss that had done the evil. Fierce and vehement were his denunciations, and he declared by all the saints in the calendar, and all the other various means by which asseverations are supposed to bo made binding, that he would blow fie expletive brains out of the expletive fellow; and with this intent he returned, last night by the G-olden Crown. When last seen, he was proceeding rapidly from the Queen-street wharf in the direction of. his home, giving utterance to ferocious purposes, regarding which we shall possibly give another chanter, in which- we may introduce the red ure.