A FICKLE LADY.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 76, 12 February 1877, Page 2

A FICKLE LADY.

The following is from tho Poverty Bay Herald of the 2nd instart:— " J. Pyke, the lineman of the Gisborne branch of the telegraph department has been getting into trouble in Auckland. Some (ime since, Pyke was united in the holy bonds of matrimony, as many of our readers will remember, to a fair one who passed under the name of Miss Rodgers. and enjoyed with her the pleasure and comforts of married life in a retired nook of this flourishing township. One or two trifling domestic jars occurred from causes to which it is not necessary to allude in these columns, but matters went on with the average amount of smoothness until one fine evening Mrs Pyke suddenly levanted in a friendly steamer, taking with her a sewing-machine and sundry other household goods, without even bidding her fond better half adieu. It then transpired that •• Miss Rodgers " was not " Miss Rodgers," but that she was Mrs Roderic M'Donnell. Becoming tired, however, of married life, she had left her Roderic, and sought the peaceful retirement of Poverty Bay, where after gaining her livelihood as a dressmaker, she was tempted by Mr Pyke to hazard a second venture in the matrimonial market. It would appear, however, that her second husband was no more perfect than her first, and hearing that her deserted spouse " struck a patch " at the Thames, sbe resolved on rejoining him, and on making John Pyke once more a bachelor. The telegraph man, however, did not take things as easily as his predecessor : after brooding for some time over the loss of the faithles s one, he suddenly determined to go in quest. Accordingly, after obtaining a month's leave of absence ? he, too, weuded his way towards Auckland, perhaps to re-possess himself of an aticle of property which might accidently have accompanied her to Auckland, perhaps to obtain balm for his blighted affections from the reunited pair. He .does not appear to have managed matters very

discreetly, for we notico from our Auck- I land exchanges that he was charged tbe ! other day with stealing from the dwelling of Roderic M'Donnell, sundry articles the value of £17. It is not probable, however, that the charge will be sm- j tamed.