MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 44, 4 November 1893, Page 381

MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

A VERY amusing incident took place in Queenstown Harbour. The two pretty Irish girls who had embarked on our ship (says a writer in lilackwood’s Magazine} were, on the arrival of the Servia in that port soon after joined by a gentleman who had come by mail from England, and who hail come off from the shore on the steam tender. This gentleman with the most excited and pantomimic gestures, begged one oi these fair maidens to return to shore with him and become his bride. Before his arrival on board he had, we learned, sent her five telegrams to the same effect, to prevent her departure, if possible. But the young lady at first appeared to be obdurate, for the unfortunate man was seen going oil’again to the shore on the tender, hatless, and holding out his outstretched arms imploringly to the lady of his love. But that man was not to be beaten. He returned when the tender came back again with the last mails, and this time he brought a parson with him. This pledge of the honesty of his intentions of marrying her had, I understand, been exacted by this cautious Irish young lady as a condition of her going ashore with him. She now went with him, and the Servia sailed without her. Let us hope they were happy ever after.