A Sailor's Wedding.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4419, 12 July 1884, Page 3

A Sailor's Wedding.

A fkw yoaiwago « ship camo into harbour lit Chatham to bo paid off. Ono of tho pallors being ashore, noon prevailed on a young woman of Rochontor to accopt him as a husband, and previous to returning to bin nhip loft monoy with a friend to pay for publishing tho banns and all othor incidental matrimonial oxponsos, It was proposed that tho marriage should take place on tho fourth Sunday following, and on tho preceding Saturday tho honest tar asked leave of his captain to go on nhore, which wns peremptorily refused. Jack romonstratod. "Captain,"exclaimed ho, "I am going to bo married tomorrow." Tho captain told Jack that the business of tho ship in his department was most urgont, and positively forbade him going on shore. Unwilling to disappoint tho girl and loso his money, Jaok wisely determined to marry hor by proxy, and proposed to Will Treadway, his messmate, to undertake that kind offico. "And you, Will," said ho, "stay with hor on shore, and when tho gangway is cleared from atom to stern I will came to you." Will wont on shoro, and, informing the girl of his friend's situation and proposal, sho instantly consented, and was actually marriod to Will as the proxy of Jack ; nor did the minister discover the mistake till Will wroto his namo in the book—Treadway instead of Salmon.

The clerk cried out, " You aro not the man asked in church with this woman;" to which the honest tar replied:

"I camo hore to provont my messmate being cheated, and I only marry the girl for Jack Salmon, my messmate, till he comes on shore."

Three days afterwards Jack camo on shore, when ho received his spouse from tho hands of his proxy, and lived in as much peaoe and tranquility as if he had originally tied the matrimonial knot in propria persona, —" Scraps."