WIFE'S ELOPEMENT.
♦ BOUND FOR NEW ZEALAND. Therb was a dramatic meeting recentlv at Plymouth on the mail steamer Tainui, which was about to leave for New Zealand, with the result that an elopement was frustrated, the parties concerned returning to Lowestoft. An Oulton (Lowestoft) man missed his wife and two children, aged 17 years and 18 months respectively, and, having traced them to London, found that they had booked passages oversea. The disappearance of a Lowestoft smack-owner occurred about the same time, it is stated. Being too late to catch the steamer from London to Plymouth, the husband hurried to Plymouth, and sought the aid of the police. The steamer was boarded, and among the second-class passengers were four people, travelling as Mr. and Mrs. —, Miss anct Master — (the name of the missing smack-owner). When the husband appeared on the scene with police officers the smack-owner ■ was nursing the baby in the cabin. , There were naturally words of reproach, the captain of theTainui was ( interviewed, and "ultimately the parties [ were landed - and the voyage abandoned. [\The hatband went back \to Lowestof t t ' ir»-', iyiilin^wTti hifl wife and ; children; . '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)
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189WIFE'S ELOPEMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)
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