A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT.

We clip the following additional particulars from Lloyd's to those already published : — An arrest which created no little sensation was made at Michelstown, county Cork, on Sunday evening. Three weeks ago there arrived a Scotchman, aged 32 years, accompanied by a young lady of prepossessing appearance, about 18. The male prisoner came from Belfast, where he had seen an advertisement in a newspaper of a vacant situation for a game-trapper on the Kingston estate, and he obtained tho situation. The charge against the man, on which he was apprehended, is that of deserting his wife and six children in Scotland, and the young lady was arrested on a charge made by her guardian. It turns out that she is a ward in Chancery and heiress to £80,000, and is said to belong: to one of the first families in England. It appears she visited a nobleman's place in Scotland, where the other was game-keeper, and hence their acquaintance. Later in the evening the young lady was removed in custody of Detective Clarke, and the male prisoner was brought before Mr Riobard Eaton, Resident Magistrate, and remanded. He was then taken to Inverary j and charged on Thursday at the instance of the Parochial Board of Glaasary with deserting his wife and obildren. He pleaded " Guilty," and was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment.

When are you nearly related to a fish P When your mother is a good old soul. "Can anyone tell what the wind whistles for ?" asked a young man at a picnic. •' whistles for the le«res to dance by," demurely replied a young lady,