A CANADIAN BELLE ELOPES WITH AN OYSTER-MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 7

A CANADIAN BELLE ELOPES WITH AN OYSTER-MAN.

A SENSATIONAL elopement is reported from Wingham. The lady in the case is Miss Emma, the eldest daughter of Alexander McKihbon, the wealthiest man in the place. About three years ago a young man named Michael Quighly, a telegraph operator at Lucan, Ailsa Craig, and other points on the Grand' Trunk Railway, came to this town, ■where he started a confectionery shop for the sale of fruit, oysters, candy, &c. He had also charge of the Dominion wires in his establishment. Quighly made poor headway in his busiuess, and was unable to meet his

and.....the store _was closed shortly after ii-was opened. - During his'stny in Wingham he made the acquaintance of Miss MeKibbon with whom he professed to have fallen in love. The young lady encouraged his advances and in turn became infatuated with her darling Alike. Quighly openly boasted of his future prospects, saying in the hearing of several parties, "I guess I'll come into possession of some tall property one of these days. How would Ido for a landlord of the Brunswick House ?" Quighly's parents live at Lucan, and it is supposed that he waa aided by one or more of his brothers. The meeting took place at 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, October the 4th, and at 10 o'clock p.m. the couple were united in marriage by a Methodist minister residing at Blythe. Thex;ouple remained in Blythe all night and next morning departed for Lucan, where they remained a few days, when finding it impossible to appease the wrath of an incensed parent, Michael deemed it prudent to decamp, forgetting to leave his post-office address. Mr. Quighly's reputation in the past was that he was rather fast, but of late he has been rathersteady. It is stated that Mr. MeKibbon has entered an action against Quighly on the ground that his daughter was not of age and that the services of the clergyman were obtained by Quighly under false pretenses. Miss Emma MeKibbon, who has just arrived at her seventeenth year, is a young lady of remarkable prepossessing appearance, a d was looked upon as the belle of Wingham. —Toronto Mail.