HE WANTED A DIVORCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 22 November 1879, Page 2

HE WANTED A DIVORCE.

A SIQUBI TO "THE COUBSE OF TBTTI LOVE ?> ; " MABEY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE." Just ope short moon ago we published the account of a marriage under somewhat peculiar circumstances ; since then we narrated a few facts connected with the bride and bridegroom not usually hoard of m the first month of wedded bappiness ; and to-day we give the sequel of the ill-fated union. When last we peeped m upon the privacy of the ill-assorted pair, the fair fiancee had returned to the domestic hearth after an unavailing attempt to flee from the husband of her bosom. Since then matters bnve been going from bad to worse, until just one short month from tho time both stood at the altar, the one-pledged to "love, honor, and obey," tlie other to " cherish and protect," they stand face to face m a court of justice, the wife of four weeks old •olemnly swearing that her husband had en.- J I deavoredtoconipais her death, while ■witness | i after witness was produced by the unlucky Benedict to prove that for him the marriage bed had not been one of roses. Assisted with the powerful aid of her legal adviser, the plaintiff m seeking v the protection of the Court from the brutality of her husband*' related, while a thrill of horror pervaded ' erery one present, how this Coionial Claude Melnotte had earred her off to a simple whare, -wherein, to spend the honeymoon. When he* audience had recovered from the shock received from this announcement, a relapse was experienced when it becanr 3 known that he had actually refused to get her a feed of jelly when she had ordered him, and finished up his catalogue of dark atrocities by refusing to take her to the play. It was admitted by the fair accuser that he' had given her authority to get herself new drosses, nor was it denied that she had boxed his ears and pulled his beard, without evoking a castigation for the liberties, but what compensation was that to a woman who had to live m a whare and could not feed upon jelly. Under cross-examination, the applicant for protection, stated £hat sha had all the love and affection for her lord wljjch it was right a wife should have for a husband,' and as the witness was sworn to speak the truth, we presume she did so ; but we imagine that the announcement, and the peculiar way m which her affection was groven, would not be a powerful incentive, to bachelors entering the married state, It was admitted that -" the other one," as the fascinating Frost was sacrilegiously dubbed, held possession of her heart at the time that the bridegroom "ringed" the fatal finger j and if the hard (hearted) Frost bad melted like Snow, and come to the scratch on the day appointed, instead of- allowing the fair one to sacrifice herself upon the "altar, of revenge; for his desertion, all would have been well. The curtain has now dropped upon this domestic drama of three, acja, and for the first time m their wedded experience the pair cordially agree— she wants her freedom, and he is only too willing to give it to her, not m the" shape of a separation, but a divorce, which will put aa complete a barrier between them as money will purchase.. As the pah* quit ted the Court-hou3Q, on the conclusion of the caseon fihursday, thej hesitated at the gateway, and then each.fcaking the bearings of the other, one headed due east and the othtajdue west, thus completely severing a short, but not uneventful, married^ career.