AFTER THE CEREMONY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 3

AFTER THE CEREMONY.

SEQUEL TO A WEDDING. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BRIDE. WELLINGTON, July 7. An unusual denouement is said to have followed a wedding celebrated in Wellington to-day. A young lady arrived in town from a distant fjart of the dominion a few days ago, and stayed with her relatives at a hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry. It is related that the young lady had expressed unwillingness to go to the altar with the gentleman, but the latter’s suit was favourably viewed by her parents, and rather than disappoint them she decided to go on with the ceremony. At the church there was a fashionable attendance of friends and relatives of the couple, including some prominent personages, one of whom gave the bride away. All apparently was going well, but a little later after the bride had driven in a motor car to the groom’s hotel consternation was caused by the discovery that the lady was missing. Search was made, but, like Ginevra of old, the. bride seemed to have vanished completely. Subsequently it was said that a motor car had been seen dash ing away from the hotel with the bride and someone, believed to be a male relative, in it. The supposition is that the lady, though unable to muster up courage to declare the wedding “off” before the event, had nought her relative’s aid to escape afterwards, leaving the groom lamenting and the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movements of the runaway car are wrapped in mystery.