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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6834, 23 April 1890, Page 2

May and Decembke. — A strange scene took place the other day at the registry office, Wimborne, on the marriage of a well-known inhabitant, named John Joyce, aged sixty-six, with his domestic servant, a young person about twenty years of age. Joyce buried his first wife very recently, and great indignation and excitement were expressed when it became known that he was to be married again. About four hundred people assembled outside the office, and greeted Joyce with groans and hisses, and threw at him bags of rice and flour. On leaving the registry office the newly-married pair had to be protected by the police, 'l'he bride took shelter in her ' aunt's house, and the bridegroom, sought the protection of a neighbouring public-house, till the crowd was dispersed: by the police.