Tied on the Deep.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5906, 30 March 1894, Page 2

Tied on the Deep.

A MAIL STEAMER ROMANCE (BY TELEGRAPH FROM AUCKLAND.) The San Francisco Chronicle of February 15th publishes the following, under the heading "Tied on the Deep":—An elopement and marriage occurred on tho Oceanic Company's steamer Alamoda which arrived yesterday from the Antipodes. The contracting paities were James William Trivatic, an Auckland drummer, about 28 years of ago, and Miss Jane Graham Reid, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who is just 18. The marriaßO ceremony was peformed in Captain Morse's cabin by the Rev. J. G. Tutham, of Sydney, who was a passenger on the steamer. The groom confidentially related to several passengers on tho Australian liner the romantic incidents of his courtship and elopment. It seems that the mother of the bride was very much set asraint young Trivatic. She selected another young man for her future son-in-law and wished to have her daughter marry according to her wishes. The young lady was, however, as set on her way as her mother, and outwitted the family by eloping with Trivatic, who had been schoolmate. A brother of the bride gave her her trousseau at Sydney, she having left her home with no baggage. Tho bride's father is an engineer on one of tho Union Company's steamers. On th 6 steamer the lovers were most discrpet. Before the steamer left Auckland tho groom spoke to the agent (Henderson) of the Steamship Company, and it was agreed that the pair should be married at sea. The matrimonial affair was quite an event on the steamer. Mr and Mrs Trivatic will take up their residence in one of the coast towns. They make a fine looking pair and have some means.