A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 3

A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE.

that she might judge of the difference in the temperatures. She accordingly went out in a-canoe with her New Zealand friend and a Maori boatman. She was lying back, with both arms extended and both hands in the water, that she might feel when she-came to the hot springs. In the bow was the friend, and behind her was the boatman

Suddenly, without any warning, when they were in the middle of the lake, the Maori said to Miss Ward, "You marry me?" Realising that if she angered him ha might become disagreeable, and even precipitate an accident, Miss Ward, without appearing surprised or moving her position in any way, answered quite quietly — "Certainly ; with pleasure.'?. ■ ii: , . The man beamed with satisfaction; aad Miss Ward's friend, evidently desirous of giving a practical touch to the situation, asked the , boatman whether he had any money. "-Any amount," he replied, emphatically dwelling on the first letter of each word. •

Affianced . Miss "Ward remained until the end of the excursion. Meantime, however, her friend, knowing the Maori character, begged her, to be 'ready to hurry away the moment the little boat touched the land, and so get away without a moment's loss/ of time to more civilised regions, where, at all events, proposals are not usually made on sight. As soon as they reached the landing stage Miss Ward escaped to a larger boat, while her fiance..'of the moment', was kept busily engaged in . a ens-r cussion about the money he had to be paid. , '"■•'*■. ;'..... '. .""'■

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The following appeared in our Town Edition last fssue -

THE MAORI AND MISS GENE-

VIE YE WARD

i Atnong the curious proposals of marriage actresses receive, few can have been more dramatically sudden than one made some years ago in New Zealand to Miss Genevieve Ward. ;

She was in the neighbourhood of the fr'u'.nous lakes where hot springs bufrbio up through cold water, and was invited to go out and inspect them, so