An Indian matrimonial Suit.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 7

An Indian matrimonial Suit.

The Calcutta correspondent of rho " Time*" writes : - Some months ago I -eutsumtnauos of two striking letter.* on infant irwurUge and enforced widowhood, published under the norn clc plume of "A Hindoo Lady." The writer of those letters ha* again onmo prominently befoie the public, as hri-clf affoiding an o\.unple of he» own pitln-ttc description of the unh ippy lot of her -ex in India-Ruktnib.u — foi that is her namo - when only eleven old u,i^ giv^n in marriage to a. hid of nii cteen Mbo remai»ied in her l.dher'-i Inuu-e, we? well educated, and i<< now de-unbm .-is a youn^ lady of hiyh intßllifrenc and roliiK^l in .stinots. Hei hu^hand. on the o'het (wind, is paid to bo little betiei than a co"lir, ignorant, uncultivated, and un.thlu to tMin more than ton inpees a mmith The idea ot going to live with .such .wiiin wa- ur,*-eily rcpnUive to her She accnidin^ly infused to do !-n. Her huuband iheicupon bioughc a suit for the lestn.iuion nf conjutfjd i luhts in the Botnbny Hiirh Court. Mr Justice I'inhey, who fust heaid the ea.-e, di-iuit-^ed it without calling ° n tt.e dt-lendunt. An appeal -was lodged. It, w,*s aigued last week before the Cliief .1 notice and Mr Justice Bciyley, who have tnkcn time to consider their judgment. It wa- evident that the sympathio- ot the court woie entirely with the lady ; bur ihe question which they had to try \%a-« one ot law, and net sentiment. Should they hold— -us i- not unlikely— that the Hindoo,, law ri Horde no relief to the wife in such a ca«e, thon it may at least be hoped r!mo Unkuiibai - cad fate "ill have raoie effect th»n her letieis have had in inducing natne '•elurmeis to direct theii* energies lcs-i to vague pulitical 'aspirations and more to theprtsring evils of their tocial system