DOSSED WITH A PEA-RIFLE.

NZ Truth, Issue 141, 29 February 1908, Page 6

DOSSED WITH A PEA-RIFLE.

A Dairy Expert Divorced. A Government dairy expert, or one ,who used to be"~cm\ and, who. may benow so far as tliis scribe knows, figured fn a divorce suit at Chrrfstrhurch t'ot-lier. .day, end went out in■ist&lnviovLsly". It was a case of deserZ?%&.* rind the fellow didn't seem 19 — Newman Christian the devil christened 1

him, anyhow ? Wife— Jennie- Anderson, and she told a tale that savored of cruelty, neglect, and desertion against the Swede who knows somethins about cows, or professes to, and thx& Government have been paying him a .good salary to look after '•udders and/- things m general. It's a pity the cows' didn't know who he is. He treated his wife shamefully by deserting her some years ago and never rejoining her: Perhaps he never wanted to. One never knows, However, she wrote to him repeatedly, aiid he replied saying that he would make a home for her. Being an absent-minded beggar he forgot to do it, and continued to forget for years. Then she grew tired of her crass-widowness and lighted out for the Supreme Court, THERE SHE GOT JUSTICE. The pair were married at Sefton ( Canterbury) , and separated at Auckland. The father of the girl gave evidence at the Christchurch Court, this week, and he characterised "ithe son-in-law, as one oi the worst. Rough, but perhaps deservi'ed. - Ths-'bld; man also made ceferI ence to a certain fire, and obtaining | money by false pretences, but that's 1 i neither here nor there. Lawyer ■Johnston asked for a decree, and it was ffcanted. But fancy a man who used to sleep with a pea-rifle alongside him. That came out m cvi-, denoe, and proved what sort of coot ! Aii'der&on was. What did he want a pea-rifle for, anyhow ? He is a nouse coot is Anderson., and it's a good i job. that his ex-wife has severed the r bonds.-