A NEW SOUTH WALES ENOCH ARDEN.

Evening Star, Issue 3536, 23 June 1874, Page 3

A NEW SOUTH WALES ENOCH ARDEN.

The particulars of a somewhat hard case, with Enoch-Arden-like surroundings, has transpired (says the ‘Newcastle Pilot’) at Waratah. Some thirteen years back the husband of a woman residing at Waratah, left his wife, who, by hard struggling, managed to amass some little property, besides keeping and educating a large family of children. After some eight or nine years had elapsed, the woman, not having heard fram her husband during the whole period, advertised /or the “missing link,” but without avail, and about three years back she married, tor the second time, a respectable and industrious coalminer of the district. After two children had been sdded to the earlier formed circle, the wanderer returned from another Colony, and, it is said, claims some little landed property that had been accumulated during his absence. The additional hardship of the case is that with the property is included a new bouse, said to have been built out of the hard earnings of husband number two. Whether the first husband inUnds claiming both wife and property does not appear, but the later consort is still in possession.