Scotch Marriages.
Apropos of Scottish marriages and their perilous simplicity, a correspondent quotes a paragraph from a London newspaper : — How brief is the ceremony may be judged from the fact that a well-known Glasgow minister', the Rev. A. Leiper, has been known to buckle 80 couples in the course of an evening ; and it is nothing unusual in the month of June, which is the " marriage season " in Scotland, for the minister of the country town to spend hours * driving rapidly from one house to another, halting at each for a few minutes to tie the knot and receive the fee, and then going on to the next "customer." And it is a curi- j ous reflection on the- peculiar laws which regulate marriage north of the Tweed that anyone can " marry " a couple just as well as the minister, mutual consent, in the presence of witnesses, being all that is required to make the union binding.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 January 1892, Page 3
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157Scotch Marriages. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 January 1892, Page 3
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