SECOND EDITION Continued. A BRIDE OF THE BUSH.
TASMANIAN ROMANCE. A most unique wedding was celebrated on Tuesday, the 18*ii i.isl., at North Heemskirk, (Tasmania), away in the heart of tiie wild west coast bush, more than half a day’s journey from Zeehan. Here, in a long abandoned miner’s hut, Mrs Leppard am Victor Beck, an elderly couple, wer married by Rev. T. H. Wills’, Anglican
vicar of Zeehan. Several'miners, ios j sickers, and tinscratchers from the surrounding wilderness stood arpnno in their shirt sleeves, and the bride knelt on a folded overcoat as a substitute for a cushion.
j The bride bap for' many velars been engaged in tin-mining and is described as “one of the best women that ever handled a pick and shovel.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 28 December 1917, Page 2
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126SECOND EDITION Continued. A BRIDE OF THE BUSH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 28 December 1917, Page 2
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