STORY OF AN ELOPEMENT.
■_-'--■:. =-..". ";-———..,",'*» -;,v.'""';■';';. .':' AN UNCLAIMED LEGACY. . : ..■■' ;: : . ,:- ,'.-r-,--.;. .ift..': , i'.T-. ; .' , V,:;''ti:'';! i i'.4.-i.^^^ The story of a runaway match was told' in the Practice Court, Melbourne, last week. . The matter under investigation was an originating summons, the plaintiff being William M. T. Pearce, of Melbourne, and the nominal defendant Mrs. ■■, Stubbings. It, was explained by Mr. Lewers .that direction* was sought in connection with the ,will •of/ Mrs. Frances Snelling, who died intestate at Kew in 1901, leaving an estate" of £3500, There were left, as next of kin, sis or seven.. brothers and sisters, of. whom Mr. the plaintiff, was the eldest, ' and was. furthermore administrator of:- the estate;* A difficulty in connection-with the distribution of the estate J had arisen over a doubt which existed 'as to -whether; one of tfea ' .. sisters, by name Mrs. Gowper, was alive or; ', dead. • " There was an-elopement/'; explain"^' ;■; ed counsel, "in the year.lß73, the bride-. . groom being William Cow peri a midshipman on the one-time famous* clipper Northumberland. The marriage was celebrated * at-Port Melbourne' by the Rev.' Mr. Plat? 3. .;' He returned his ship, and his' wife subsequently joined him in England."..-.' It was' '-; explained" that 18 months afterwards Mth. :■ CowperTreternedHb^^isti^if^i a child* ] saying she was going tr< join her husband', at"New Zealand -, but since i:hen nothing had been heard of her. " It was rumoured at brio '•' time that she had "gone on the stage," bub . / this information turned out to be incorrect. ' Advertisements inserted in- the English : ' newspapers had not been answered. .\ After argument, the Chief Justice directed.' that the missing woman ■ should be - furthei! j; advertised for in New Zealand and England, and further bearing of the application wasg adjourned sine die. " " ,
STORY OF AN ELOPEMENT.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 5
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