DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGROOMS

Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 4

DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGROOMS

[Special to the Stab.] BLUFF, July 8. Waiting at the church has been a situation more or less frequently before the public of late, but an instance a little more interesting than many others occurred last week. A Stewart Island bridegroom and a Bluff “ best man ” visited Dunefiin to celebrate the wedding. The bride was a barmaid, and the happy bridegroom sought his fair fiance© without a moment’s delay, but the manager of the hotel shook his head and intimated that the bride had “packed her swag” and flown, with another man. The Stewart Islander could have been knocked down with the proverbial feather, especially as he supplied, it is alleged, a good round sum for expenses; but the best man rose to the occasion, like the Good Samaritan, and asked Mm to have “something” to assuage his sorrows. All inquiries were fruitless, and the minister had to be notified that the deal was off.

[Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 7. .An unusual denouement is said to have followed a wedding celebrated in Wellington to-day. A young lady arrived in town from a distant part of the Dominion a fendays ago, and stayed with her relatives at an* hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry. It is related that the young lady had expressed unwillingness to go to the -altar with the gentleman, but tho latter’s suit was favorably viewed by her parents, and rather than disappoint them she decided to go oil with the ceremony. At the church more was a fashionable attendance of friends and relatives of the couple, including some prominent personages, one of whom gave tWe bride away. AH apparently was going well, but a little later, after the bride dad driven in a motor car to tho groom’s hotel, consternation was caused by tho discovery that the lady was missing? Subsequently

it was said that a motor car had been seen dasliing away from the hotel with the bride and someone to be a male relative) in it.' The supposition is that the lady, though unable to muster up courage to declare the wedding “off” before the event, had sough* her x-elative’s aid to escape afterwards, leaving the groom lamenting and the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movements of the runaway car arc wrapped in mystery.