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Paul Cranbourne's Wedding : A Christmas Story single work   short story   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 Paul Cranbourne's Wedding : A Christmas Story
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Set during the Maori wars. A mounted trooper takes 40 men to a country station where a wedding is to be celebrated on Christmas Eve - the very time when 200 Maori warriors have planned to attack. Not only does Captain Temple's plan beat off the superior force but he finds a beautiful wife. Long battle descriptions. (PB)

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