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Cromwell Argus, Volume XII, Issue 586, 1 February 1881, Page 6

The Mount-Ida Chronicle reports an elopement from an important township in the north-west part of Maniototo County, The most peculiar thing about it is that the giddy pair are both married people;. neither can be much short of 50 ; and; further, neither could ever possibly be selected by any artist, however mad, as a model for a painting of Venus or of Apollo. It must have been no ordinary attachment that induced an elderly man to desert his wife and a grandmother to leave her husband and her children in such a manner as this. The lady went via Blacks and Lawrence to Dunedin ; while Adonis journied via Pigroot, taking with him, as a mark of esteem and gratitude, a horse belonging to a gentleman who had befriended him for years, which he left at Palmerston. The pair met in Dunedin, and the last that was heard of them was that they had loft for the South, presumably with the inc .uion of catching the steamer for Victoria at the Bluff. Latest cable news states tliattherneasures taken by Government to suppress the exis ing agitation in Ireland have led to warrants bi iag issued for the arrest of GO land leaguers, all of whom will be placed on their trial for sedition. A. man who was recently remanded by the Dnnedin Bench at the Police Court for medical examination took one of his examiners to task concerning his qualification for the work. As he considered the doctor looked like a foreigner, he objected to him unless he could produce an English diploma, as he (the patient) had no belief in the value of Continental medical diplomas. The medical gentleman said he regretted he could not produce his diploma for examination, so that the patient's curiosity could not be gratified ; and the patient' replied that neither would he gratify curiosity, and that he must decline to answer questions.