THWARTED WEDDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

THWARTED WEDDING.

IRISH GIRL AND HER STUDENT

LOVER.

PENNILESS BUT HAPPY.

A pretty love story has been broken off at a very interesting point. -.

Inside a hansom, going in the, direction of the registrar of marriages' offices," were two persons, a young man and a pretty Irish girl, with fair hair and laughing blue eves. Their cab drew up at the door of the offices, they alighted, and went inside. "They had called upon the registrar to be wedded, and he prepared to perform the ceremony. Suddenly, however, came an interruption. Another hansom rattled up, another man stepped out. and he, too. entered the office. Once inside lie proved to be a solicitor. He was acting upon the instructions of tlie bridegroom's mother, raid he at once proceeded to state his reasons why the marriage ';- should not be solemnised. ?;. The registrar listened, and at length decided lie could proceed no further. He was firm, despite the pleadings of the bridegroom, but the ceremony was only postponed. During this time of delay tlie statements made by ; ,the bridegroom's mothers ■ solicitor, who opposes the marriage, will be investigated.•■ V This was all the comfort the young couple could secure from the registrar, and at last, seeing it was useless their remaining longer, they again drove off. From inquiries made by a newspaper representative it appears the name of the would-be-'bridegroom is Charles Jocely Hare, and he is a medical student who has studied in Dublin. Of late he has been engaged in assisting a Chelsea medical man. " The girl, who is about 20 years of age, is Miss Darlington, of Kingstown, Ireland, | the young couple having originally met under ; romantic circumstances, while the solicitor is a gentleman who practises m the Strand. ■.-■■• •■»--■ - : ../-;-/• ..-'■ ■'■-'■•

, PENNILESS. BUT HAPPY. Mr. Hare, a slim, intelligent, good-hu-moured medical student of 22, with bushy, black eyebrows and a passion for cigarettes, has taken the Daily Mirror into his confidence. ~''-,/ "Ethel and 1," he said, "live only for each other. If we cannot be legally married—and I utterly fail to see why we cannot— shall make no difference. We have formed an alliance nothing, can break, to which many persons can bear witness, and I take it this, must have all .the effect, if not the 'technical:: validity,.of a Scotch-mar-

riage. ' ... .' . i ... "My mother's determination is to keep Ethel "and me apart. .

LEG AH. MACHINERY IN* motion.

"Mr. , Herbert . Zacharia Deane, of 165, Strand, : caused a postponement of our marriage at Fulham on the grounds of age and residence. But both objections were easily proved invalid. We are both of full age and due notice to the registrar, with proof of adequate, residential qualifications, had been provided. ■•-..- : "Then on the 'Tuesday came a caveat, ordering the registrar, Mr. Marsh, at his peril, to refuse to marry us for a fortnight, backed by an injunction obtained, I am told, from Mr. " Justice Bargrave Deane. "Letters have been produced from a wellknown Dublin physician and a Fulham doctor, which apparently reflect in some way upon my sanity. "I do not know from hour to hour that some doctor, and uniformed attendants may not drive up to the door and tear me from Ethel, with the • intention of having me formally certified insane and imprisoned in an asylum. And the anxiety is killing us by inches. "v -.<.-.

'. "MY wife before god." " Ethel is my wife before God, and nothing shall part us. I have no estates. My mother made me an allowance until a month ago. At her death she can leave me penniless, as, indeed,. I very nearly am now. "I am her only child. Her vexation at my decision and her dislike to Miss Darlington I deeply regret, -.but I; cannot understand why, 'as I renounce every kind of claim upon her, my mother should have taken steps to divide us. V "I do not know what data was put before Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane. No papers whatever have been served upon me, and 1, the person principally concerned, am almost entirely in the dark, „,, -~.. - ... - "All I know is that again and again Ethel and i 1 have attended at the.Fulham Palace Road registry office to be married, and each time have been refused.

" Mr: Herbert.' Zacharia Deane at his office assured me my mother would certainly go on, whatever that may mean, and prevent my marrying Miss Darlington at any cost." : ,-,-: v J- I-OVERS' TLAXS. - .>.'; . ■'

- Miss Darlington, whose most striking attractions, are her; beautiful Irish eyes of grey rimmed with black and her soft, delicious* brogue; looked: lovingly at her lover as he talked, and placed her hand tenderly in his as he concluded..

' "I cannot bear him out of my sight," she said simply. "If he is away .more than half an hour I want to go and search for him. and am on thorns till he returns.

v "He js mine : he belongs to me. And one shall take him from me. It is perfectly ridiculous to say he is mad. • To prefer poverty.with me to comfort without me is surelv not madness. \

: "He is going- to be a distinguished scientist somedayhis research work in -a London medical college has,been highly praised. And lam going on the stage—l have already chosen my stage-name, Ethna M. Herrall. We. cannot live apart."