SERVED HER RIGHT.

Evening Star, Issue 3254, 25 July 1873, Page 3

SERVED HER RIGHT.

Locality (remarks the Independent) appears to exercise a great influence in determining what amount of injury marriageable women sustain through blighted hopes in their anticipated matrimonial arrangements. New Zealand colonists clearly do not appraise at a very high figure the pangs experienced by virgins who have been the victims of misplaced confidence. An instance of this was furnished at the recent civil sittings of the Wellington Supreme Court, when the jury awarded a Miss Johanna Josephine Casey a solitary shilling as a solatium to her outraged feelings; and niggardly as the amount was, it appeared that they would have denied her even that much if it had entailed costs upon the defendant, Neither party appeared in Court, the breach of promise being admitted ; anything in the shape of documentary or oral evidence to prove it there was none; and the admission seemed t< have been made purely from moral principle. After some difficulty, it was elicited that if the young lady had not been over discreet in suing for damages, jjhe had at least enjoyed a fair number f years of discretion. Probably what

weighed most with the jury was the fact, which, by the way, leaked out somewhat irregularly, that during the time this action was pending this maiden of equivocal age actually accepted another offer of marriage, which was only broken off by her intending husband dissuading her from proceeding with her action, as he said “he did not want the man’s money.” Miss Johanna Josephine Casey, however, with traditional feminine obstinacy, would have her own way in grasping at the shadow. It is to be hoped she will discover the moral and profit by it.