A BROKEN ROMANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21196, 29 November 1930, Page 15

A BROKEN ROMANCE.

CANCELLED ENGAGEMENT. ' 1 . SEQUEL TO ALL-DAT TALK. It was announced recently la Madras that Miss Evelyn Trigge, the 28-year-old Stockport teacher, whose engagement to the Kev; G. W. Bowker, of the Wesleyan Mission in: Madras, and formerly- of 1 was broken off when ■ Miss * -Triggs arrived from Ceylon, spent a whole day discussing with her fiance before, taking the decision to cancel the wedding. , ; The couple had not‘met since their romance began in' England four* years ago,, and on Miss Trigge’s arrival in Madras, tt is- said, they found that they were no longer congenial to one another. Miss Triggs’s hosts in Madras say that there is nothing sensational in the breaking off of the engagement. The-people considered the position, and decided that the wisest thing to do would be to break the engagement; Her hosts State that Miss Triggs, in a message sent from the ship, had given' Mr Bowker warning ofa - feasible breaking off of the engagement; n this message she said that she was not, regarding the prospect of marriage with flo much .eagerness as originally. As Miss Triggs is a trained kindergarten teacher, she is likely to obtain a post in a European school in one of the South Indian hill stations. Moreover, she has :•* a cousin, Mrs Weatherhead, the wife of ' a prominent Weeleyan preacher, living i« India. • Mr Bowker is greatly distressed. Mim Tnggg resolutely refuses to discuss th* mattes.