Post by NZBC on Jul 15, 2012 12:57:09 GMT 12
An Interesting Event.—The following is from a Dunedin contemporary —A marriage of a kind as yet rare in Otago took place yesterday. The parties to the contract were a dashing young Chinaman, engaged in market gardening and selling catbbage and lettuce, and an European, a blooming young damsel of twenty summers, whose beauty, it is presumed, had touched the tender heart that beat beneath an Asiatic skin It may be stated that yesterday afternoon two carriages dashed up to the Registrar's office. From them, surrounded by an admiting crowd, stepped forth the bridegroom, bridesmaids, and groomsmen. The bride, the bridesmaidss, and a European groomsman were dressed in the orthodox wedding costume, and altogether elegantly get up. The bridegroom and the two Chinese groomsmen were equally resplendent, they entered the Registrar's office, the crowd forming a guard of honor along the passage leading thereto, and before the Registrar, Mr. Street, the knot was tied. The deed being done, they entered the carriage and drove off. Later in the day the house of the happy pair was literally besieged by intrusive youngsters who, uninvited, came to congratulate them upon the event. New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2442, 22 November 1871, Page 3