FATE OF LITTLE PRINCESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 3

FATE OF LITTLE PRINCESS.

ISLAND ROAIANCE AND ITS SAD

SEQUEL.

(Special to Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. An Island romance in which Auckland people have been more or less interested had its sequel j this Aveek. Early last year a young princess, niece of King George of Tonga, finishing her education at a ladies' college in the North Island, came to Auckland en route to her home, AAhere-her people had arranged for her an alliance with an Island prince of high degree. The proposed marriage, however, Avas distasteful to the little princess, and. she thought to checkmate her relatives by entering the matrimonial state in New Zealand. Accordingly, on the morning of the c dav on which she was due to leaA'e Aucklarfd, she became the wife of a young man in the employ of one of the big Island trading firms in this city. The bride left immediately after the .ceremony, the arrangement being that the husband should folloAv by the nest boat, or as soon ; after as his. business arrangements Avould permit. This course was carried out, but "when the youthful husband arrived at the home of his Tongan princess, it was only to find that she had been spirited off to the far-aAvay island of Taviuni, which is beyond the reach of ordinary trading vessels. The husband," moreover, Avas warned that if ever he attempted to follow hi3 princess, then ill betide him. -The next chapter in the story is the return of the princess to Auckland bv the last Island boat, en route to a Waikato sanatorium, in a broken state of health. Her condition is regarded as exceedingly serious.