REFINED CRUELTY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 313, 14 December 1883, Page 3

REFINED CRUELTY.

— : r+ A divorce suit is to occupy the Suprem* Oourt'at Nelapn this week, in which the wife petitions for judicial separation on the followingfgrounds !-*-NearHavelock, on or about February 3, 1883, while, in a boat her husband struck her several times over. the arm with the tiller of the boat's rudder, and that her arm was so, much injured that she was unable to use it ; for months afterwards ; that about May 22, 1882, at Kenepuru, he left her in a dangerous position on a perpendicular ladder on a wharf, and he would not assiit hsr, or allow anyone else, for a long time ; that ia the same month at Hayelock, he' landed her upou » bwoh, from whigh »he

I was unafcle to get to Havelock owing to the high tide, and compelled her to stay on the beach alone and in great discomfort for a long time; that in or about the month of August, 1882, he compelled her to start from Kenepuru to Picton against her will, and she had to walk about eight miles on a rough sea beach to a place.'called Torea, where in consequence- oE there being no means of conveyance to Picton she had to remain out without shelter all night : that, on or about the month of October, 1882, lie dragged her — she being then without her bonnet or shawl — by her arm down a public street of Picton, and compelled her to go in a boat with him to Kenepuru, and whilst on the way he struck her twice violently with one of the tars of the boat; that after arrival at Kenepum he ordered her son to taka her boots away and hide them, which he did, and she was for three days without any boots ; that about October, 18S2, she was assaulted by him, and he rubbed a dirty f ryingpan against her face, ( and afterwards dipped her in a creek againat her will, and then poured cold ■water over her and wet her clotke» through ; that about November, 1882, he struck her, knocking her agaiust a window, and tkereby cutting her head and causing it to bleed freely ; that about the same msnth he ordered her to proceed to Ficton to bring her daughters, and 'to take them to Kenepuru. She proceeded to Picton, fcut ha« not re- : turned lo live with her husband.