AFTER MANY YEARS.
The “Southland Times ” of Tuesday last contains the following : Two respectable women.after 17 and 18 years respectively of married life* came before His Worship yesterday at the R.M. Court, to avail themselves of the protection afforded by the Married Women s Protection Act. In the first instance the husband appeared and endeavored to account for his abuse of ids wife and failure to provide for his family by alleging immoral conduct on her part. This was emphatically denied by his wife and son, who were placed in a very painful position in rebutting the allegation. An order to protect the wife’s separate earnings was made by the Court, with the custody of seven children of the marriage._ The husband seemed to be mainly anxious to get his blankets. In the second case, the husband had the grace to keep away, and the order was granted, with the custody of seven children, and 15s per week for the support of five of them. In both stories it was the old story of intemperance, idleness, wife-beating, and failure to support their families on the part of the husbands.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2552, 26 May 1881, Page 3
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189AFTER MANY YEARS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2552, 26 May 1881, Page 3
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