A GAITERED "GNAT."

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 4

A GAITERED "GNAT."

DUNEDIN'S DEAR DOCTOR* Arid His Late Wife's Moiiey. What a Woman Thinks. (Prom Sydney "Truth. ") The following cable, appeared m tho Sydney dailies during the' past week :— • l A Bishop's Bond.— Dr. Nevill's Appeal Granted.— London, February 11.— -The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of the late Mr Justice Gfantham m favor of the plaintiffs m the action brought by the executors of the late Jame« .Parker Penny against the Bishop of Duinedin, Dr. Nevill, for tie recovery of a bond of £10,000. The Court of Appeal has entered judgment for the defendant. Beneath this was the following supplementary footnote :— Thiswas an action brought on a bond made by the defendant on July 6; 1876, by which he was to pay to Mr «. James Parker Penny, his heirs, executors, and assigns, £10,000. with interest. The amount was to be paid within six months of the death of defendant's wife, Mary, who died on November 27, I^os. and who was -daughter of ,= J a ires Parker Penny. The def-nce was that the' Bishop, when he made the bond, did not understand its nraning. He thought that -it was to, last only for a particular tnme," . viz., while be and his wife were travelling from Enpland to New Zealand, m case both should he shipwrecked, m whi n h case the money would go 'to the w-^'s father. Defendant mani-d n 1862, Miss Penny, who was heir to the sum of £20,000, and who was, also m receipt of an income cf £1500 a year. Ten niomths Her the death of his wife, Dr. Ke- ill married' her comppmV-n. r r 5!---tie'e Grantham fnurid 'or the" nlnintiffs, remarking that the lond- was a just, and right one. The money beine tlie wife's it s-bouW +o the wife's family after her death. After reading the a-hove a S^-t woman wrote «nnd posted a letter o Dr. Nevill as follows -.— To the Right Reverend, the Lord Bishop: of Dunedin.— My Lord Bishop I,—Will1 ,— Will you allow me. the ?1 asur'e"of telling you that I fnislrler you to; be a disgrace to live -Yl<.th -■ which covers your worlrU. . rn-uAI, and grasping body. - , Such as you it is who b'lhg mon religion the healthy rent nipt < f all decent, sanf^-mind^d fcl 1 - \ }to know the difference between -'.'meinn .et tuum. ?> If you were a man m poor circumstances you w^uld, f much earlier m your careen;, been placed m fraol by vcvur f>-n -^vmen, and I, for one, am nuiv c rtain that you are set ap^rt hv r od as one of the everlasting irnnnts cf His' prison. Words \ cannot express my coutempt of you. You marry a woman, who, e^n^r- ! ous creature, briners you whn f tr oti could never hope to earn,, hy i- n~st braips and manly labor. v O n live oh her money.' Skunk ! T'l'-'n. when the kindly hand'tVat msr ns f"d you .dies, you immeHiatelv TP^'r'v her companion. U^h ! W^rse stilL— you then hasten to rebi-'i^to your moral debt, and wrif.g]» »ut of it through a le^al tecWiclitv. Shame! You worm m human form. I don't know you nor anrone cont-e r -t~d "'iih you, or "-our ; poor, dead wife, but, T want to M you know what one i>°rson, at least, m the world, livings of —despicable manikin that von -re. However, you ore he+^ie'', *nd whatever the pumie ,nnd P p_ a --s you wear, you aro •di<:covf i r''d <-n nl l mankind as a dead sea fruit- -or even worse— for nshes cannot do menu actions, and feet venomous srepd. Beliove me, mv Lord Bishop,— Yours, very truly: — : — 12/2 /' OS. Tn the letter to Dr. Nevill the writer's full name was fflv™. i'oa;e^her with her address.' i '