AN UNHAPPY COUPLE.

NZ Truth, Issue 143, 14 March 1908, Page 6

AN UNHAPPY COUPLE.

LAMENTABLE LAPSES OF

THE LANES.

Prohib. Order Against Man and

Wife.

Lane Says the Doctor Prescribed

Stout.

The unique spectacle of , husband and wife charged at one time . with toping fit subjects for a prohibition order was witnessed m Wellington S.M. Court this week. Elizabeth Lane has of late given way to the hops habit to an unconscionable extent, and as. there were two young children, . Thomas, her husband sought to have her prohibited. Unfortunately Lane himself, who earns £2 5s a week m the Botanical Gfardens, is rather fond of his beer, and acknow' lenged to the police subsequently that he was m the habit of taking swankcy home when suffering from ulceration of the stomach, stout being ordered by the doctor for that complaint. Lane, didn't mention the name of the medico, who ought to build up a large practice on popular prescriptions of that sort. It appears that the shickering couple pay a cormorant landlord iOs 6d a week rent for a room at No. G, Ingestre-strest, and husband, wife and two children pig together m this enclosure. Lane recently took a considerable > quantity of beer for his ulceration and. Mrs Lane also drank the medicine out of sympathy, so that her condition became reprehensible, and at midmost Lane rushed up to Mount Cook Police Station to take out a prohibition order against her. The man was wild-eyed .and hiccoughed considerably from ulceration and beer, and 'giant Sergeant Rutledge fixed him with the, cold, .