SECRET MARRIAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 6

SECRET MARRIAGE.

AUCKLANDER WEDS SYDNEY HEIRESS. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, April 10. The passengers on the Makura, which reached Auckland yesterday, were much intrigued by the fact that they had with them on the ‘ voyage an Aucklander who had secretly married a young Sydney’ heiress shortly before the boat sailed, the young couple being quite the centre of attraction on the way across. “Well, not exactly, but nearly,” confided the bride in refuting suggestions which had gathered ground on the ship that it was an elopement. She enlisted the aid of her young husband to tell the stoiy of their very happy and brief courtship. . The husband is Mr J. Miller, of Devonport. He went to Sydney at the beginning of the present year and while there met his wife, who is the youngest daughter of a leading Sydney family. They became secretly engaged. He returned to New Zealand, but soon went back again. The wedding was kept very quiet. “Get married first and tell your friends about it afterwards was my idea,” said the bride. “It saves such a lot of bother, doesn’t it? At any rate,, we had known each other for nine weeks,” It appears that after the wedding the news was announced at the Hotel Australia, where they were staying, and it caused a sensation, as the heiress had just come of age! The bride’s mother went to the reception, and her sole regret was that her favourite daughter was to leave Australia for New Zealand.