A SENSATIONAL TALE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 274, 5 June 1874, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL TALE.

A ser>sational iale comes to us from the Nfcw York ' Times/ of a man named Oades, who was residing in New Zealand a u umber of years , ago haying on one occasion, when juvay ; from home, returned and found his house burnt by the natives during his absence. Amongst the ruins were some human remains, which he supposed to be those of his wife and children, the more especially as, alter enquiring in every discretion, he could hear nothing of them. Years rolled by, and Oades left New Zealand and settled at San .Bernardino, in California, where he married again. It appeared, however, that his former wife and the children had not been killed, but were only carried off, and after some years made their escape. The wile learnt of her husband having gone to California, and wi'.h her chil - dren followed him thither. On her arrival she found that he had a new partner. - California has a convenient law in such cases. , If five years elapse without,either husband or wife hearing of oiie another, either can-marry again, and in the event of the other party turning up, the second marriage is still legal, unless one or the other of the latter married apply for a dissolution. In this case Mr. Oades seems to have been satisfied with his second''wife, and she being of an ac-. cpmmodating disposition- a mutual arrangement was made, .by which all the parties should dwell together in peace and amity ; and it was not even deemed necessary to adjourn to Salt Lake to carry out the understanding. The New York paper does not mention the locality of-Mr. O«okr<fohn<rite w'Ne'w '$&&&&" * •••-a-V*