MARRIAGE BY PROXY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 3

MARRIAGE BY PROXY.

NOVEL WAY TO SEAL ROMANCE. f . Di vidid by 9000 miles of sea and conmap™! i and , find,n fj it impossible to get MvpW C i..f Ul i lder ordinary conditions?, two lexers lately evolved a novel fn overcome their difficulties. BClle ?^..’ to 01h'e e Sh?d’npT° n f t v af ; sbat5 bat to o Kin; Miss ume hhad.ord. of Peckham Rye London should be married by proxy to her lover’ Mr Jack Siebhnck. a Dutchman, who occupies a responsible position with the Ore®™* railways. Until reeentlv Miss Shadford, an attractive girl of 20 was working in a big Holborn Ttore While staying at Bexley Heath with her aunt. Mrs Hutson, and preparing for her voyage to Java next month as a Earned woman, she excitedly awaited a cablegram conveying the information that she had been marrmd in Samarang. Java It Tent a hv an th d L h • i the mcss ' lt - ,e should ;i e sent by the bridegroom. Mr Seiblinek immediately after he had gone through the ceromony. .with a married wombat Mr Hutson speaking-of his nie c’s nn-«ottuT-nHOna ’ .■J f ?m»riee,. stated: “Mr and-Olive fell in | nve t | H , y net a couple of years ago. but Mr SieliS q“ 3 .T eSS hn i! f'. cd hinl to Java rince then. So the courtship was cont nu-'d an i flourished by nost. anti eventually Olive accepted Ins offer of marriage. It was 1,7 to’’ him to return to London for the wedding, and they agreed that it would be more convenient for h'r if she travelled out to a bungalow woman. ready f ° r her ~ a 9 3 «»a.Tied i < i^ oeOrd i Dgl - y ’j tb is marriage bv proxy 1? h'eina carried out under .Dutch law at the Dutch Commissioner’s office at mW ra ? g ’ f ° H ™ l hc siting bv my niece of a number of documents which K e „ s 7 . e ,l t to toe consulate in London When Mias Shadford arrives in Samarang she and her husband will go through th-> mamage ceremony at the English Church Miss Shadford’s romance recalls to mind a marriage by telephone,” which was performed ,n America a few weeks ago to ‘^phoned-from Cleveland to Waco, Texas, where were the bride mnr.J naß,^ tra *f who P erf °rmed the oeremony, and witnesses on extension lines