DANCING TO A PRETTY TUNE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 151, 14 October 1876, Page 3

DANCING TO A PRETTY TUNE.

A most amusing scandal lias beun circulated in town daring the past few clays (■"ays the Melbourne correspondent of the lliwi'pdm Gimrttmn) about a certain wellknown and extremely rich mining man. This gentleman is well-known fur his amatory proclivities, although he is a married ruan with a family. His spouse, however, live* at a mining centre, where he has amassed his wealth, while he spends the greater part of his time in the city, where, it is said, he is very free with his money, spending tt on the fairer section of the creation. He recently got op a tim&n with a very pretty but exceedingly unprincipled young girl. Matters went on for some time very smoothly, and the rich man became very fond of the yoang beauty. £nt the lady waa friendly with a young gentleman who waa as unprincipled as herself. This youth, who was bkssid with a ptentitude of wit and poverty of coin, made inquires about the reefer, and finding that he united a very libertine disposition with a horror of publicity, he at once resolved upon a very pretty scheme. After some trouble he got the lady to consent, and the game was played. One evening, when the reefer and his inamorata were engaged in secret converse, in walked the youth. He at once got into a terrible rage, claimed the girl as his wife, and swore revenge, actions in the court, pistols and coffee, Ac, &c, as is the wont of injured husbands. The poor reefer was fairly entrapped, and before he left the house he had to sign a cheque for

£3OO -wherewith to solace the injured hn*b_nd. The worst of it v.:i f ..- '.i wa* shortly afterwards undeceived and fold of the whole plot. Now, as money is his god, this nearly drove him to distractron. To be wry rich is not after all x i unmixed blessing.