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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8163, 15 August 1887, Page 5

Some rather' odd stories could be told by the man who ties the knot,, did he choose to givejbis thoughts tongue. If the fee is ten pounds or more the groom takes great pleasure in transacting the business, but is equally anxious in securing a substitute when a smaller amount is to be paid for the union. In case he has no brother of his own, the bride’s relative is pressed into the . service; in which instance that lady is more or less officious. At a rather stylish party recently, the groom put a £5 note in the gloved hand of his small brother-in law, with directions for its transfer to the parson, and hurriedly left the room. The bride, hearing the . con. versation, succeeded in detaining the, juvenile, and hunting up one of the sovereigns her mother had given her for travelling trifles, changed the sums and called herself ‘ just a husband and £4 ahead.’ She changed her mind very shortly as to the monetary gain, for the first thing she heard as she emerged from h?r room in a travelling salt, was : ‘ ’Tain’t as much as he gave me first. .Sister kept it and said this would do well enough.’ Even the groom marvelled at the blushes of his pretty wife as the urbane minister wished her good-bye and God-speed.