MARRIAGE WHILE YOU WAIT.
. — * — . A COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION. Maiiriage brokers are a, regular institution in Italy. •In Genoa there are regular marriage brokers, who have pocket-books filled' with the names of the marriageable gilds of the different classes, with notes of the figures, personal attractions, fortune, and other circumstances. These <broke-ie ( igo about endeavouring to arrange mapiages in the same off -hand mercantile manner whichi they would bring to bear upon a purely business transaction, and "when they succeed they get a commissicm of 2 or 3 per cent upon the portion, with such ex+ras of "bonuses as may be voluntarily bestowed t>y th© party.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7293, 4 January 1902, Page 4
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104MARRIAGE WHILE YOU WAIT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7293, 4 January 1902, Page 4
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