SOME EFFECTS OF THE TIDAL WAVE.
Ever since Mangonui was visited by the recent tidal wave, things have been going on in a very queer way. The first is -very romantic. A carpenter, belonging to the Mill, proposed to the Settlers' " Hebe " upon Sunday, the 2nd, and she was married, to him upon the 3rd. They are said by the landlord to have spent the six days of the honeymoon most lovingly, but, alas ! on the 9th a former beau came upon the scene, and with him, it is supposed, she eloped as soon as the evening came on. The forlorn husband, no doubt, has found the old proverb true, " Too much haste, &c." The next startling event occurred on the same evening, when a young girl of fifteon summers, servant in a family, wa9 sent to church, to which she did not go, neither returned to her place, and has not feince been heard of. She has no relations nearer than the Waikato, and her disappearance remains a mystery at present, but the police are hunting the country over. The laat thing missing is a valuable poodle dog, which the late owner says is stolen for its beauty, but this is altogether a matter of opinion. Some people' 1 think that they have all gone together. The report saya that the eloped couple are in the bush, but the servant girl not with them.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 158, 22 September 1883, Page 3
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