A CAME OF EUCHRE FOR A BRIDE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 8

A CAME OF EUCHRE FOR A BRIDE.

Masterton ca.n lay claim to fame for what must surely be the record gaino of •euchre ever played, for the Ktako was nothing less than a bride (r.ays the "Wairarapa Daily Times".) There v/ere only two' participants for the valuable prize but they were doughty sons of old Ireland, and wore fired with, the ardour so characteristic of Erin's children. They happen both to be captains oi1 the labour that entails plentiful swinging of the pick and hoistings of the shovel, and alf-o merry widowers, whoso previous matrimonial encounters in no way daunted then? for a second bout with Cupid. The bride-to-be was coino.id'Pntally, a

merry widow, whose, Dublin brogue was only excelled in richness by tho suitors who 'played' for her hand. Tho match was fought out in a local board-ing-house, an enthusiastic audience watching a point-to-point gam© with him of the loud and insistent voice, whose melodious greeting has beon a vocal landmark of Akura for countless seasons past, whilst tho redoubtable To Oro Ore antagonist walked sadly a way from tho scene with an inevitable walking-stick alone to console him. ' Sad to relate, the "stake" had not been previously con stilted in the matter, and when tho winner went to claim her he wn« ignominously spurned, the lndv declaring "bo the powers" she wouldn't ha.vo winner or loser "on her mind."