Breach of Promise.

Manawatu Herald, 9 May 1903, Page 2

Breach of Promise.

THE LADY AND HER “COMFORTS.” For breaking a promise of marriage within a few days of the date fixed for the wedding, as a result of a “ tiff” about the furnishing of a house, Herbert Cunningham, traveller, of Ferndale Villa, Hornchurch, Essex, was mulcted on Tuesday in the K.B. Div. in £IOO damages and costa.—Plaintift was Miss Alice Paternoster, who was a forewoman in a City warehouse, earning 255. a week, and living with her parents in Woodhouse-rd., Leytonstone. In 1898 the couple met 'at the local Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Once she refused him; but being better acquainted in 1901 they entered into an engagement. He bought a house at Hornchurch, partly in cash and partly on mortgage, and the marriage was arranged for May 17, 1902. The first tiny rift in the lute occurred eight days before that date. They were travelling in the train to Leytonstone when Mr Cunningham read out a list of items required, and one of them was 16s. for the honeymoon. Miss Paternoster told him they could not go away on that sum, and he replied, “ Well, I am short of money: suppose we put it off.”— Cross-examined as regards this conversation, Miss Patemostep