THE OTHER MAN!

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 301, 20 December 1928, Page 8

THE OTHER MAN!

AT THE LAST MOMENT.

New Zealand Bride Surprises London Society.

MISS SARGOOD'S CHOICE.

(Australian ana X.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.; LONDON, December 19. There was a flutter in society circles at the Savoy Church to-day arising from the fact that a New Zealand bride, Miss Huia Sargood, instead of being married to her announced fiance, Captain Valle Pope, of the Royal Artillery, who took out a license a fortnight ago, was married to-day to a New Zealander, Lieutenant lan Lawrence MacKillop, of the Royal Engineers.

The bride told an interviewer that the other engagement wa9 off. "I am marrying Mr. MacKillop," she said. The bridegroom interposed that the other announcement was incorrect.

It is understood that Captain Pope told the church authorities as late as Saturday that everything was in order, but on Monday Miss Sargood told them that she wa3 marrying Mr. MacKillop. She was informed that the old license in the circumstances was invalid so she paid £2 14/ for a short-notice special license.

The bride is a grand-daughter of the late Sir Frederick Sargood. "The other one Is off." This is still the only explanation in the "Sargood romance," which Is given much prominence. Other novel features of the wedding were that the guests arrived half an hour too early owing to a wrong announcement, and the bride's defiance of superstition by wearing a bright green dress, with coat and hat to match. She also brought a big Airedale, which she tied up outside. It whined and broke loose, but was recaptured after a chase.

The bride explains that it was entirely a mistake. The bride's mother, from New Zealand, began to explain, "Yes, there was to be a different groom," when her son-in-law interrupted, "That was before. It was some time ago." Noticing the photographers, he remarked anxiously, "I hope they won't put the picture over the wrong name. The other man was a mistake."

The "Daily Express," in an editorial, eaysr "Miss Sargood set an example which doubtless many wives wish they had followed. . Women rarely allow themselves to benefit by second thoughts in these matters. Once engaged, there is a vast, many-sided and well nigh irresistible social pressure which propels them to marriage. It ie an absurd and cruel convention. Better to make an eleventh-hour chance, in the face of bother and gossip, than to pig-headedly and resignedly embark on an experiment about which doubts have already begun to arise."