MARRIAGE IN MID-OCEAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10310, 31 March 1894, Page 5

MARRIAGE IN MID-OCEAN.

A NEW ZEALAND ELOPEMENT. [Feb Pbsss Association.} AUCKLAND, March 30.

The San Francisco Chronicle of Feb. 15 publishes the foliowing under the heading, “Tied on tho Deep.” “An elopement and marriage occurred on the Oceanic Company's steamer Alameda, which arrived yesterday from the antipodes. Tho contracting parties were James William Trivatio, an Auckland drummer, about twenty-eight years of age, and Miss Jane Graham Reid, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who is just eighteen. The marriage ceremony was performed in Captain Morse’s cabin by the Esv J. G. Tatham, of Sydney, who was a passenger on the steamer. The groom confidentially related to several passengers on the Australian liner the romantic incidents of his courtship and elopement. It seems that the mother of the bride was very much set against young Trivatic. She selected another young man for her future son-in-law, and wished to have her daughter marry according to her wishes. Tho ycung lady was, however, as set in her wsy as her mother, and outwitted the family by eloping with Trivatic, who had been a schoolmate. A brother of the bride gave her a trousseau at Sydney, she having left her home with no baggage. The bride’s father is au engineer on one of the Union Company’s steamers. On the steamer the lovers were most discreet. Before the steamer left Auckland ths groom spoke to Agent Henderson, of the steamship company, i;.nd it was agreed that the pair should be married at sea. The matrimonial affair naf quite an event on the steamer. Mr and Mrs Trivatio will take up iLeir residence in 000 of the coast towns. They make a flue looking pair and have some means..’’