A ROMANTIC WEDDING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13774, 11 May 1915, Page 2

A ROMANTIC WEDDING.

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Cisfcorne, May 5. 1 .vupersthious brick, a resourceful, anxious bridegroom, nml an obJiging clergyman provided ihe elements toclav for a- most romantic wecidmir. The contracting parties were resicents of J'atutahi, an outlying township, nine miles from Gisborhe, ami, as .m usual, «'l the Jtrrangemonts for ths ceremony \wrn made well ahead, uiit an inusual circumstance, however, threatened at the "last moment to su>p the progress of love's young dream. Tho bride was under age, and consequently the written consent, ol her m £h.r, v.ho lives in Palnierston North, was necessary. lc wasji-■nno-pd that ihe bride's mother should rainVV Gisborno hy Uie Monowai (\vlp-:.. was lime-i.abkd to amve here 19* 6 o'clock this inornin-), and aftw si<rivi.{»- the nwessary papers should procoeS out to Patutahi to witness too I ceremony at 2.30 p.m and bless the 'ncwlv wedded pair in the time-honour-ed fashion. This morning, however, the bridegroom was horrified to .Una that through i-misual circumstances the Monowai did not leave ISapier last •nc/ni. and would not arrive in bishonvo until about. 1 p.m. late was obdurate, however, and thc,.vessol was !aft:r than expected. _■ ". T^io'iix-'iiic {•oiiiiiuniieations' wn.!r tl>-i-.earuil bride at Patotahi tho*ve<l that »-1.0 was superstitious, and would inn. IOT---T to the'wedding being put" oft. f-Tna'iv, after many desperate hours of •"-.it:m' tho .bridegpoiTi hauled Ins framicr'rm)thor-m-law-elect before the ie'-i.-iiar at 3.40 p.m., 'and tho legal formalities were eoinph'ici!. T!'c marriage law provides that weddiu(' r>' nr.ist be solemnised before 4 i>'mT and the much harassed groom vvas(aced with the poser of how to <x>vev" the ten miks betv.een Gisborne ar.d Fat Utah: .md gee the -ceremony over inside oi' lo minutes. He is a man of resource, however, and .con got into touch per telephone with the pjuciating clergyman (Rev. Mr

Rawnsley), and asked him to get a-motor-car and witnossos and the bride and coino like the wind towards Gis' borne and this tho clergyman hastiiy agreed to do. J In the moontimo the g> (lom h astonct i his overdue mother-in-law into another motor-car, and bribed tho chauffeur to forger, the speed limit on-the way io fatautahi About halfway out' thecars max, the groom transferred liim.velt' *;o tho clergyman's cai1, presented the humbugging jxipiM'-,, oriel with the car liuned round, and making the trip at bicak-uectv speed lo.vaids Patutahi, the (.ssentiai pai I of iho ceremony wnl com;>ieteci vith 30 sc-conds to spare, and nil-, linnlly con^hidod in t!i<> nvrangod place- vU Patutahi, amid tho »v(-II hisjits (-.i a host H" iriends. Tho htippv pair left for the south by tiic Tjirii,, era lati'i1 iv the evening.